Hi, my name is Charlie Labarda. we're here to show you how to hunt with bird dogs. This is Toby, he's a lab, about a 6-7 year old lab and he's a great house pet with kids and a good guard around your house. He loves to retrieve, he is born to retrieve. I use him for duck hunting and also as a companion. I take him horseback riding; he rides along with us. This time I'm going to show what he does; he's a water dog. At this I'm going to show you how he sits and a couple of commands. "Toby, stay." "Sit." In order to reinforce; I have a palm behind me and I'm going to throw this dummy (duck) and he's going to retrieve it. "Stay", "Stay", "Stay" and I will give him the command "Go", "Fetch" and he goes into the water. Oh, chilly. And that's how ("Here, Come over Here") he'll bring the duck over to me again ("good boy"). Good fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch, little shake and he likes to bring that dummy back to me. (Good boy, Good boy) Ok, bring it down, "Sit" he'll shake again "Sit". And that's how we'll do it one more time for you; and I'll tell him to "Sit", "Stay", "Fetch" and he dives into the water and he loves to swim. He's a water dog and that's the reason that we have this pond; to train our dog and give him a good exercise; one way to get your dog in shape during hunting season. I don't mind him dropping the bird and shaking, he's trying to grab it; it?s a big duck. "Here", "Come", "Hup", "Hup", "Whoa", "Sit" (shake one more time) "Sit". That's how we train our dog.
