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Julie Bates updates us on six-month-old Faith's progress with retrieves, holds, and force-fetch while stressing a calm, empathetic approach to avoid creating anxiety or mouth problems.
The episode covers problem prevention strategies: slow, consistent training, avoiding excessive "happy bumper" play that creates chaotic behavior, and conditioning dogs to vehicle confin...
Julie Bates discusses recent training updates and the start of formal work with Faith, a young pointing Labrador, including force fetch and pausing upland birds to prevent bad habits.
The main topic is preparing for the Triple Crown upland field: conditioning and heat adaptation, fueling to prevent hypoglycemia, thoughtful field strategy (wind, cover, bird placement), ...
In this episode Julie Bates walks through a step-by-step method for field collar conditioning to fix common problems like dogs not returning, rolling on birds, or chasing. She emphasizes strong basic obedience first, teaching enforcement pressure properly, and pairing the whistle with collar cues.
Once the whistle-collar response is solid, Julie explains how that found...