Hey Logan,

Welcome to the site, its about time you posted, what have you been doing all night?  LOL, I hope we get some good info to help us out.  Later bro.

Danny G

PS Fellers Casey is an awesome dog, saw here yesterday and she is beautiful and was cool to see her chase that ball.  Waco showed more interest last night than ever.  He went picked up 2 balls I threw!  I was so happy :)

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Welcome Logan!  That's a great looking dog.  I think in time the pup will start to focus more on retrieving.  From what I've read before it's best to just practising retrieving for short periods of time when they are that young and build them up to longer times.  You dont want to wear them out on it.  Maybe try putting them in an environment where there is nothing to do but retrieve (not many distractions).

Keep us updated!

Allen

Hunt Hard. Fish Smart. Explore Texas.

Logan,

When Casey starts to lose intrest in bring the ball back start walking backwards away from her while you are calling her to come. As for the wing, you can try it but Casey may try to eat the wing. I started using the store bought scent from academy, its really the smell that you want them to look for. Also, don't just throw the ball or retrieving buck where she can see it, throw it in so tall grass or light brush to try to force Casey to use her nose to find it.

Danny,

Sense Waco is so young, don't throw the ball more than a couple of feet away and if he does not start bringing the toy back, walk backwards while calling his name as I told Logan to do with Casey. To extend the retrieve, I would toss the retrieving buck the few feet and while the dog is heading away to get the buck I would take about 5 to 10 steps backwards. Using this tactic will make it easier for the dog to find the buck as it was not thrown too far and when the dog turns around you are twice the distance from the him/her so it appears to be a longer retrieve. Also, when Waco is retrieving ok work him with Casey, she will be a little advanced compared to Waco because of age but the competition will work wonders when it comes to going after the buck.

PS Both of your dogs are very beautiful, looks like you made some good choices. One more tip, always stop playing the retrieving game with your dogs before they want to stop. You want the dog to be the one that wants to keep retrieving. With my dogs I will toss the retrieving buck or toy about 5 times to start with and then put it away. This tactic will leave the dog wanting to play more and the next time you are out you can get your dog to retrieve with more enthusiasm. Then each time you go out to do some training increase the number of times the buck is thrown and before long you will be able to throw it endlessly and he/she will wear you out wanting to play.

Thanx for the help guys! Danny and I are takin the dogs to the park today to meet for the first time...im a little worried about casey rough housing waco to much...she soes it constantly with other dogs...but they are grown and can hold their own...let me know if their is anyhting i should do to stop that...ill let yall know how their first meeting goes.

-Logan

Waco has been sleeping so I hope he will be excited to get up and go to the pond!!!  I threw him the ball some earlier and he chased it 2 times then he just wanted to play with me so i stopped.  I am excited about him swimming, hope he does.  By the way is this thread weird and really elongated on your screens?  Later fellers.

Danny G

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yes...its bc my pic is too big for the screen

Well i had a pretty succesful day at the park with casy! She voluntarily got all the way in the pond and swam to retrieve a stick! I dont know how good that is for 12 weeks old but i was happy with her. Here is one of the picks we took (me and casye on the left).

Hey Fellas,

That is me and Waco on the right.  He didnt do much, just watched Casy and then she pushed him in while they were playing so that was cool.  The water didnt seem to bother him but UI dont think it made his day either.  It sure did tire him out, he is in his kennel sleeping now, LOL.  We had fun and Casy is gonna be a good dog, she is cool to watch.  I cant wait for Waco to get bigger.

Later Guys,

Danny G

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Hey Danny,

Once it warms up a little you can help get Waco used to the water by wading out yourself to about knee deep and then call him in. This is how I have started dog in the past.

Go Red Raiders!

(sorry i dont get to do that much living in Ausin now)

Awesome pups ya'll!

Hunt Hard. Fish Smart. Explore Texas.

Yes sir,  Go Raiders!  I like em and always will even though they are not much good at anything!  My wife went there and I would have if I could have got more scholarship money, oh well I got my education in Quail hunting up in Oklahoma during college, and it was a blast.  Hahah played a little golf too :)  Yeah Ill try wading out there when it gets warmer.

Later fellers,

Danny and Waco

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Good lookin' dogs there...I remember when my dog was just a pup...now he is a quail hunting machine.  Work with them, don;t push it, and they'll end up being your best bud.

and GO TECH!!