Rufriver Gundogs

A video tutorial showing how we start puppies or young dogs retrieving

This tutorial video looks at the importance of your puppy or young dog learning to focus and refocus on a marking dummy.

An introduction to how we start our puppies walking to heel.

This video I explain how I start my young dogs off on the stop whistle. At the end of the video I set a stop whistle challenge for you to have a go at.

Teaching your dog how to move left and high with a visual and verbal command.

Video guide on how I start working on blind retrieves and handling onto a blind.

This video will show you how to train your dog to progressively work on blind retrieves that are at a distance from you.

A video showing how I teach my dogs to hunt into a ditch as well as looking at using 'over' to pick a retrieve across a ditch.

This is the second challenge - teaching your dog to jump. Feel free to have a go at this challenge and post your own video on our Rufriver Facebook page. Please note that you should not jump young puppies as they have soft bones and this could affect normal development. Please do not ask your dog to jump it has osteo problems either and only use safe fences - no barbed wire!