Course curriculum

  • 01

    Methods of Training A Retrieve

    • Methods

    • Step One: Motivate Your Dog

    • Step Two: Begin the training

    • Troubleshooting

    • Shaping

    • Create a Collection of Items
  • 02

    Hold It

    • Shaping Take it

    • Out

    • Pick It Up Put It Down

    • Break Dance

    • Hip Hop Hold

    • Chin

    • Combining Take and Chin.

    • Adding the Cue
  • 03

    Lifting the Object

    • Stop: Hold It Still

    • Push It

    • Goal!

    • Put Your Toys Away
  • 04

    Deliver To Hand

    • Delivery Position

    • Adding Duration

    • Up, Up and Away

    • Pick Up and Deliver
  • 05

    More Criteria For The Retrieve

    • Adding Speed to the Retrieve

    • Increasing Speed and Gaining Precision

    • He Went That Way

    • Toy Race

    • Drive It In

    • Go Over There

    • Smack It

    • Go! On Cue

    • Adding Distance To The Retrieve

    • Throwing the Object

    • Retrieving Small and Delicate Objects

    • Proofing the Real Life Retrieve

    • Chin Fronts

    • Shaping A Front by Kamal Fernandez
  • 06

    A Curriculum For Training A Retrieve

    • Introduction
  • 07

    Week 1 Building Motivation

    • Who’s Your Daddy? Finding Bacon

    • Chase My Hands

    • Precious

    • Trade It

    • Fetch Tug

    • Playing With Bacon
  • 08

    Week 2 Take It – The Last Action In the Retrieve

    • Take It

    • Out

    • Are You Sure I Said “Break?”

    • Pick It Up, Put It Down
  • 09

    Week 3 Hold It

    • Creating Attention

    • Break Dance

    • Hip Hop Hold

    • Chin

    • Combining Take and Chin.
  • 10

    Week 4 Pick It up

    • Hold It Still

    • Push It

    • Goal!

    • Put Your Toys Away

    • Up, Up And Away
  • 11

    Week 5 Delivery

    • Go! On Cue

    • Follow That Masked Man

    • I Missed It

    • Front

    • Which Way Did It Go

    • Pizza Hut Delivers
  • 12

    Week 6 Getting Some Speed and Distance

    • How Fast Can You Go

    • Push A War

    • You Can’t Catch Me

    • How Far Can You Go

    • Flirt Pole

    • Speed Ball
  • 13

    Week 7 Creating Precision

    • Directionals

    • Name That

    • Look At That

    • Do You See That?

    • Do You See That Part II

    • Find In Motion

    • Find It Retrieve
  • 14

    Week 8 Troubleshooting

    • Picking Up Metal

    • Dog Delivers Object Too Far Away From You

    • Holding the Object

    • Lack of Enthusiasm for a Retrieve Object

    • Rolling or Chewing the Retrieve Object

    • Pawing or Stabbing the Retrieve Object