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for us it could be just another day like it's work you're sending puppies home but
everyone's getting what's going to be their next hunting buddy and family member for
you know 10 to 15 years and that's a big deal so you want to make sure everybody you know just to
have the fun full experience of being here my job when it comes to the breeding program is to
do my best to stack the odds in your favor and I'm I'm excited to put CGA to work Cornerstone
Gundog Academy to work got our original complete Gundog Academy which has a module called success
with your new puppy you've also got on the 52 plus side Josh recording himself doing all that
with Violet and recording these videos for a week as like Hey we're struggling with this
this is what we're going to do hey we're trying to teach her this is what we're going to do so
everything starts from the time you come home with proper socialization proper introduction
by socialization I just mean teaching your puppy that these things that it Encounters in the world
are good positive things that it can be excited about right other people other taste smells noises
especially water decoys calls whatever whatever it is the dog needs to learn these are great
things and you do that by associating them with a positive and so Cornerstone really walks through a
lot of that with puppies and puts you on a proper schedule and then even for the family one of the
benefits is you've got an app you've got videos on the computer you can say hey kids this week
with Fido here's what we're doing so if I'm at work and you guys are home just remember here's
kind of the rules and we watch this video together and then they're on the same page and then they
get interested in seeing the progress you just lined out exactly how I'm going to do this with
sit down with the kids and be like guys these are the things that we're working on this week
and they're going to see obviously me doing it but it's going to be moms involved both daughters
are involved it's going to be awesome Cornerstone for a guy that's taking a dog home with his family
wants to have a great gun dog who's super steady will Mark multiples run good blinds but also be
a great addition to the family and have you know obedience to me is so important and and it's the
the Cornerstone that we build from is obedience and it's the foundation of all retrieving
problems my mentor used to always say that 90% of retrieving problems were obedience problems and
I firmly believe that so to be able to establish that with your family I think it'd be awesome man
can't wait to see how it goes. This is Hondo that's his name racked our brains half the
night driving last night and decided on Hondo bringing Hondo into the home we were working
on things like place we were working on clicker and treat Association and he took to it like a
fish to water like a lab to water actually is probably a better a better explanation
Hondo and we're kind of combining heel work right here with the place board
I haven't done much of this yet but notice he wants to be at heel good boy
we'll get him to come to heel one more time
place
all right so let's see how long Hondo can wait withstand the Temptation challenge
no
Hondo that's pretty impressive for a puppy Hondo mark
Hondo fetch it up
you will have lost that right there but he'll find it there he sees it good boy
we're here boy he'll give good boy
we are about week 12 week 13 with Hondo really deep diving into obedience lots of place training
or sending to place an extended place an extended sit stuff that's going to equate to steadiness in
the field in the Duck Blind I've actually gotten Honda out on a couple of hunts one waterfowl
hunt where he got where he did get to retrieve a Canada Goose and last weekend on an antelope hunt
here in Wyoming a lot of times you'll run into Upland Birds Chuckers and Huns
and things like that got into a couple groups of Chuckers I put Hondo on the
ground not expecting anything and he ended up flushing five Birds
Hondo come heel
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all right so we promised you a quick hunt with Hondo have my buddy Tyler out here
this morning doing the shooting this is all about Hondo about getting Hondo retrieves
young dog I've had him on two other hunts earlier this year with no camera and this morning I
thought let's try the camera and see how he does I've been pretty pleased he's been doing really
well we've got lots of birds we've been just trying to shoot single brakes um not shooting
into big groups kind of a gentleman's hunt it's not always about smashing limits about smashing
big piles of stuff guys when you got a young dog like Hondo it's more important to get him
the work that he needs to be steady and a reliable Retriever and that's what this is about thankfully
Tyler agreed to come out and do the shooting this morning really had to twist your arm yeah
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do it
Hondo
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it's been good and you gotta have that you gotta have guys that are going to understand this is
this Hunt's not about piles this Hunt is about retrieves for the dog controlled scenario you
don't want to throw all that training and hard work that you've done out the window
just because you want to make big piles I made that mistake when I was young I put
my dogs on birds and on in tough conditions in its high stress situations way too early
and Mackinac has some bad habits because of that I didn't want that to happen with
Hondo so everything's been slow steady and controlled and he's crushing it I couldn't
be happier so we got one more bird to fill out see if we can get one more [Applause]
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Hondo
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give good dog good boy that's five Mr Tyler nice job man
oh finish this woman all right
good boy dude thank you I appreciate that you're welcome it was fun you shot really well we killed
Tyler killed five big Drake Mallards Hondo mopped them up no muscle fuss we broke on the first bird
but that was more me because I was watching the bird and not the dog but after that he was Rock
Solid that's what I was looking for this morning was a very Controlled Hunt with a young dog and
work on that steadiness right buddy and he's still wound up and ready to go hey Sit Stay anyway we're
out we got out here put the federal to work and the Savage to work put Hondo to work guys remember
when you got a young dog especially don't get in a rush to get them on birds a lot of times you're
going to do more harm than good and uh place he's gonna go sit and look for more birds which is good
that's what I like I waited two years for this with Hondo because I did not want to push him
and create bad habits like I did with Mackinaw and so far so good it's okay to take your time in fact
you're going to be better off in the long run to take your time make sure you got your training
dialed right absolutely yeah and you've got four Labs yep and they all get their turn they all
have to start slow yeah or else you'll create those bad habits yep yeah you and I talk about
that all the time and you know sometimes you got to tell your buddies hey this Hunt's about the
dog it's not about you shooting it's about the dog we could have limited out 10 guys in here
this morning I mean it would have been easy you had lots of birds but we're conserving the spot
we're trying to get Hondo locked in and we're well on the way to that so anyway I hope you enjoyed
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