If you're like most people that have a duck dog or retriever you have probably heard about Collar Conditioning. But what is Collar Conditioning? Well Collar Conditioning is the reinforcement of a command the dog already knows, like "Sit" or "Stay". Collar Conditioning is not used to punish the dog but only to teach. Once you reinforce the commands the dog already knows then you can use the collar to correct that action. The dog learns that IT is in control of the collar, the

If your like most people you probably wonder how a dog learns to handle or cast in a direction that the trainer gives the dog. Well it starts with a drill called baseball. At the end of this post will be a video on the beginnings of the baseball drill. Eventually that will evolve into the single T drill. But Baseball is the foundation to handling and casting. Why is it is called baseball, that's because you will have an imaginary baseball inzone you'll be working on. But firs