Teaching Reliable Retriever Skills
Purpose: Using Motivational Training for the Field this course will develop the basic and fundamental skills every retriever needs to be successful in the field. Motivational training is teaching the hunting dog to enjoy his work by giving the dog a solid foundation of skills, building confidence and rewarding his effort without pressure.
 
Course Information: This series is based on teaching skills by focusing on enhancing a hunting dog’s natural instincts to retrieve under control and within the team framework. These modules will build in complexity and allow you to simplify when necessary as well as drills to maintain the hunting dog’s level of perfomance. Teaching, building confidence, building drive and therapy drills will keep you and your hunting dog on top of your game.
 
Please Note: The Beginning Basics course is broken into two sections:
 
Section One: Place Board Basics for Teaching Handling Cues and Steadiness
 
Section Two: Building on the skills learned in Section One this section is the Beginning of Handling Skills and Steadiness in the Yard
Each section’s lessons are completely individualized video classes.
 
What you can expect to learn in this course:
 
Section One –
Board Basics for Teaching Handling Cues and Steadiness

• Video 1 – Training the Place Board-Wait and Get it Game
• Video 2 – Beginning Steadiness on Retrieve and Return to Place Board
• Video 3 – Rewarding Wait and Return to Place Board
• Video 4 – Teaching Overs to Treats from Place Board
• Video 5 – Teaching Back Pile Target-Right and Left Hand Backs to Target
• Video 6 – Chaining the Whistle with Treats
• Video 7 – Sit Whistle with Bumpers on Return
• Video 8 – Overs, Right and Left Hand Backs on Place Board

Section Two –
Beginning Handling Skills and Steadiness in the Yard

• Video 9 – Teaching the Back Pile in the Yard
• Video 10 -Teaching Right and Left Hand Backs in Yard
• Video 11 – Teaching Right and Left Hand Overs in Yard
• Video 12 – Three-Handed Casting using Sit Whistle in Front Position
• Video 13 – Teaching Steadiness on Place Board

What is Motivational Training? Motivational training for the field is teaching a dog to enjoy his work by giving the dog a solid foundation of skills, building confidence and rewarding his effort without pressure. This is not a purely positive program but a motivational one. Any and all corrections are just information; not punitive. Enhancing a dog’s instincts to retrieve game under control and working within the team can and should be rewarding for both you and your dog. This series is the beginning of teaching your dog to do marked retrieves (retrieves the dog sees) and blind retrieves (retrieves the dog did not see) which require hand and whistle cues and skills you will need for hunt test and field competition as well as upland game and waterfowl hunting.
The series is based on teaching skills that build in complexity and that will allow you to simplify when necessary as well as drills to maintain the dog’s level of performance. Teaching, building confidence, building drive and therapy drills will keep you and your dog on top of your game. Land and water in various locations are also needed to give your dog a variety of conditions and experiences as well as factors such as terrain and cover to mention a few. Once a skill is taught in the “yard” you will need to transition that skill into the field.
Some of the basics taught are a matter of conditioning. They are not taught in a day and will take repetition on a frequent basis to become a trained skill. Over training in one session is not more desirable than training short, frequent sessions. Always try to end on a positive note and keep the lessons upbeat and informal in the teaching phase. Enjoy the journey!
 
Instructor: Lorie Jolly

CEUs:
ABCDT-L2 – 12 CEUs

Course Fee –
OnDemand (unlimited access): There are three purchase options
1.Purchase Section 1 Videos 1 – 8 for $30.00.

2. Purchase Section 2 Videos 9 – 13 for $30.00.

3. Purchase Section 1 and 2 All Videos for $50.00.

Course Access Time:

Section 1 – 30 days
Section 2 – 30 days
Sections 1 and 2 – 60 days
Student Information:

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

Teaching Reliable Retriever Skills

Purpose: Using Motivational Training for the Field in order to train the hunting dog to enjoy his work by giving the dog a solid foundation of skills, building confidence and rewarding his effort without pressure.

Course Information: Handling Basics and Transition is bringing the skills your hunting dog has acquired in the basic program in the yard to the field in order to do blind retrieves on land and water with confidence. Teaching, building confidence, building drive and therapy drills will keep you and your hunting dog on top of your game.

Handling Basics are completely individualized video classes that can be purchased  in a bundle of four or the entire set.

What you can expect to learn from this course:

• Video 1 – Place Board Marks
• Video 2 – Extended T Drill
• Video 3 – Bucket Drill
• Video 4 – Teaching Pattern Blind
• Video 5 – Cold Sight Blind
• Video 6 – Short Cold Blind
• Video 7 – Wagon Wheel Drill: Here and Heel Pivots; Wagon Wheel; Extended Wagon Wheel
• Video 8 – Lining Drill
• Video 9 – No, No Drill
• Video 10 – Call Across Drill on Water and Cover
• Video 11 – Swim By (5 videos in this lesson): #1 Teaching Back Pile; #2. Teaching Overs; #3 Help with Swim by Overs; #4 More Help with Swim by Past Back Pile; #5. Understanding the Swim By
• Video 12 – Channel Blind
• Video 13 – Beginning Tune up Drill

What is Motivational Training? Motivational training for the field is teaching a dog to enjoy his work by giving the dog a solid foundation of skills, building confidence and rewarding his effort without pressure. This is not a purely positive program but a motivational one. Any and all corrections are just information; not punitive. Enhancing a dog’s instincts to retrieve game under control and working within the team can and should be rewarding for both you and your dog. This series is the beginning of teaching your dog to do marked retrieves (retrieves the dog sees) and blind retrieves (retrieves the dog did not see) which require hand and whistle cues and skills you will need for hunt test and field competition as well as upland game and waterfowl hunting.
The series is based on teaching skills that build in complexity and that will allow you to simplify when necessary as well as drills to maintain the dog’s level of performance. Teaching, building confidence, building drive and therapy drills will keep you and your dog on top of your game. Land and water in various locations are also needed to give your dog a variety of conditions and experiences as well as factors such as terrain and cover to mention a few. Once a skill is taught in the “yard” you will need to transition that skill into the field.
Some of the basics taught are a matter of conditioning. They are not taught in a day and will take repetition on a frequent basis to become a trained skill. Over training in one session is not more desirable than training short, frequent sessions. Always try to end on a positive note and keep the lessons upbeat and informal in the teaching phase. Enjoy the journey!

Instructor: Lorie Jolly

Course Length: 13 video lessons narrated and demonstrated by Lorie Jolly.

CEUs:
ABCDT-L2 – 12 CEUs

Course Fee –

OnDemand: There are four purchase options –

1. Purchase all 13 videos for $80.00 (60 days unlimited access).*

2. Purchase Videos 1 – 4 for $ 30.00 (30 days unlimited access).

3. Purchase Videos 5 – 8 for $ 30.00  (30 days unlimited access).

4. Purchase Videos 9 – 13 for $ 30.00  (30 days unlimited access).

*There are 17 videos as some have multiple videos.

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

Purpose: To teach a reliable fetch using motivational training and the clicker. This method is teaching the hunting dog to enjoy his work by giving the dog a solid foundation of skills, building confidence and rewarding his effort without pressure.

Course Information: Reliable Retriever Skills, specifically teaching a dependable fetch is made up of two methodologies: using motivation and also using a clicker. Use one or the other or both methods as they complement each other. These courses are a step by step method to give your hunting dog the building components of a dependable fetch without the use of “force fetch.” They are comprised of formal sessions and game based sessions. Teaching, building confidence, building drive and therapy drills will keep you and your hunting dog on top of your game.

Prerequisites: None
Watch Curlee- (From his owner)
Hi Lori, FYI …. I have been following your book and on-line video series
“Motivational Training For The Field”. I am forwarding you a video of Curlee’s progress so far. Of course, he has all the right stuff to begin with and I think he is super talented but he responds to your style of training very well.

What you can expect to learn from this course:

Teaching Fetch

• Introduction to Finger Fetch with Puppy
• Introduction to Dumbbell
• Formal Dumbbell Introduction
• Dumbbell Hold
• Dumbbell Fetch and Hold-Duration
• Reaching for Dumbbell-Part I
• Reaching for Dumbbell-Part II
• Learning to Walk and Hold the Dumbbell
• Building Speed for Pick-up and Delivery
• Catch Game
• Reach and Pick up with Bumper-Part I
• Reach and Pick up with Bumper-Part II
• Transition into the Yard/Field
• Building Drive Games

Clicker Fetch

• Clicker Fetch Equipment
• Loading the Clicker and Touch Game
• Creating Interest
• Taking Dumbbell into Mouth
• Dumbbell Hold
• Reaching for Dumbell and Building Hold Duration
• Pick Up Game
• Pick Up and Delivery
• Establishing a Target
• Retrieve to Front to Target
• Dumbbell Retrieve to Heel Position
• Building Speed on the Pick Up and Delivery
• Introduction to Bumper Fetch
• Transition to Yard/Field

PLEASE NOTE: all of the above lessons are demonstrated in video format and each student will have access to these for 60 days from the day of registration.

What is Motivational Training? Motivational training for the field is teaching a dog to enjoy his work by giving the dog a solid foundation of skills, building confidence and rewarding his effort without pressure. This is not a purely positive program but a motivational one. Any and all corrections are just information; not punitive. Enhancing a dog’s instincts to retrieve game under control and working within the team can and should be rewarding for both you and your dog. This series is the beginning of teaching your dog to do marked retrieves (retrieves the dog sees) and blind retrieves (retrieves the dog did not see) which require hand and whistle cues and skills you will need for hunt test and field competition as well as upland game and waterfowl hunting.
The series is based on teaching skills that build in complexity and that will allow you to simplify when necessary as well as drills to maintain the dog’s level of performance. Teaching, building confidence, building drive and therapy drills will keep you and your dog on top of your game. Land and water in various locations are also needed to give your dog a variety of conditions and experiences as well as factors such as terrain and cover to mention a few. Once a skill is taught in the “yard” you will need to transition that skill into the field.
Some of the basics taught are a matter of conditioning. They are not taught in a day and will take repetition on a frequent basis to become a trained skill. Over training in one session is not more desirable than training short, frequent sessions. Always try to end on a positive note and keep the lessons upbeat and informal in the teaching phase. Enjoy the journey!

Instructor: Lorie Jolly

Course Length: 28 video demonstration lessons.

CEUs:
ABCDT-L2 – 12 CEUs

Course Fee –

$55.00 for 60 day unlimited access to all 28 demonstration video lessons.

Student Information:

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

Purpose: To help you prepare your hunting dog for the NAVHDA Utility Search for Duck component and to teach your dog to search for a wounded duck in water using his nose and expanding the search area to locate the duck.

Course Information: Welcome to the Utility Duck Search course designed to help you prepare your dog for the NAVHDA utilitiy duck search! I hope you find this a valuable learning experience. As we progress, we will explore a variety of issues and experiences related to training your hunting dog to be ready for the NAVHDA Search for Duck portion of the Utility and Utility Preparatory test. When testing in Utility (and hunting) it is always desirable that your dog, when sent (“fetch”), enter the water and go straight out in front of you, cross the water while looking and scenting, and search for the downed bird in the water, cover and possibly the shore once he reaches the other side. As always, this is only ONE method to train a hunting dog and there are many others that may work just as well.

Prerequisites: Fetch training completed.

What you can expect to learn from this course:

• Understanding the NAVHDA Utility and Utility Prep Search for the Duck (Judge’s perspective)
• Importance of dog fetching without something being “thrown”
• Dog learns to search in water and cover in water
• Dog learns expand his search in water and cover in water
• Dog learns to cross water to search across the lake
• Dog learns to enter water straight away and go out to search
• Dog learns to track a duck in water
• How to find a NAVHDA test and enter your dog in a NAVHDA Utility test.

Instructor: Cheryl Aguiar

Course Length: 6 one-hour sessions

Course Fee –

For Credit OnDemand: $70

Student Information:

Access to this course will expire in 2 months.

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

NAVHDA Affiliation Disclaimer:
Please note that this course is not affiliated with nor endorsed by the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA).  To prevent any conflicts of interest in both the presentation of this material and the NAVHDA, the content has not been reviewed or approved by, nor does it represent the opinions or views of, NAVHDA International.

Purpose: To teach you to train your dog to track wounded game in all conditions and to help you and your dog be prepared for the NAVHDA Natural Ability Tracking component.

Course Information: This course is for those that feel they and/or their dog need extra help learning to concentrate and cooperate on a track. As always, this is only ONE method to train and there are many others that may work just as well.

Prerequisites: 4 months to 16 months (actually any age, but must be under 16 months to be qualified to Prize in a NAVHDA Natural Ability test).

What you can expect to learn from this course:

• Understanding NAVHDA Natural Ability Tracking
• Laying a Track
• Dog learns something is “out there.”
• Dog learns to use nose and concentrate on track
• Importance of wind
• Importance of training in varying cover
• Importance of training corners
• Importance of training roads or paths
• Dog learns the difference between “Track” and “Search”
• How to find a test, enter and run your dog in a NAVHDA Natural Ability test.
• The NAVHDA Natural Ability Tracking Training course focuses on scenting theories, training techniques, starting a dog on a track, laying a track, equipment used, types of fields to train in, expectations of judging a track in a NAVHDA NA test, and step-by-step instruction to get your dog ready for the Natural Ability test in NAVHDA and the hunting field.

Instructor: Cheryl Asmus

Course Length: 6 one-hour sessions

Course Fee –

For Credit OnDemand: $70

Student Information:

Access to this course will expire in 2 months.

You must also read and agree to the E-Training for Dogs, Inc. Standard Terms and Conditions prior to taking a course: Click HERE to read these. You will be asked when you register if you have read them and will not be allowed to take the course if you do not agree to the terms.

NAVHDA Affiliation Disclaimer:
Please note that this course is not affiliated with nor endorsed by the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA).  To prevent any conflicts of interest in both the presentation of this material and the NAVHDA, the content has not been reviewed or approved by, nor does it represent the opinions or views of, NAVHDA International.