Life Kennels
Started Dogs
Started Dog Program
SLK Started Dogs
The SLK STARTED DOG Program is different from traditional started dog programs. We have designed a program where PUPPY PARTNERS (Foster Families) take seven week old puppies, and raise them, socialize them, and do Puppy training until the puppies are approximately six months old when they come back to SLK to formally train.
We have found they are more balanced, and ready to learn more so than puppies that have been raised in a Kennel environment only. They have been set up to succeed in life and with their new families going forward.
Early Puppy Development Includes:
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Create Training
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Socialization inside the house
Once they are 6 months old and begin formal training, they will learn:
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Obedience Training
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Sit
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Stay
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Here
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Heel
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Down
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Place
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Here whistle
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Retriever Training
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Steady to shot
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Multiple retrieves
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Working out of a boat & on land
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Working off of a portable dog stand
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Working out of a duck blind on water
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Working out of our duck pit
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Force Fetched
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E-Collar Conditioned
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Exposure to decoys
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Picking up simulated cripples
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**Upland Training is an option, as well**
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Our Started dogs are expected to be Happy, Bold, show self control, and be crazy about hunting and loving people. In other words we want them "Calm but Ready".
