Dog’s Best Friend: Drake retrieves a pheasant

Ted Hoff of Cottonwood Ranch and Kennel has been showing us training sessions and playtime with his yellow Labrador puppy, Drake. This video, shot a few weeks ago when it was still winter at the ranch, continues the training with a real pheasant. Because of the earlier sessions with bumpers, as well as the sit, stay, come training, Drake easily does what he was bred to do, and has fun doing it. As always, keeping the session at an appropriate length of time, repetition and praise are the key elements to Ted's methods of training.