Originally Posted By: AWSA good obedience course will give you the basics as far as recalls, stays and heeling
all things that will make your dog a great dog, having your dog in control through farm yards and pastures really impressed the farmer/rancher. Then you can work on reinforcing at distance outside the training facility. I trained bird dogs and was a judge at performance tests. A trained dog will respond to lips on a whistle, if you have to raise your voice it isn't trained. Dogs know how to hunt training teaches them to hunt for you and builds a bond with your.
If you get a collar learn how to train with it, not punish with it.
I am working with him now on just sit,heels and stay. He has the heel and sit down pretty weil so far. I am just using my voice now and am getting ready to introduce the whistle here next month. He will only be 3 months on March 1 so I am not trying to do to much for now. I will get him solid on the voice commands before moving on. The ecollar is not even ordered yet. I welcome advice you guys have for me. My past dog training was with pointers and beagles. I always had older trained dogs to run them with. This is going to be new to me after the obedience training is nailed down.
Thanks
Jon