This Puppy's FIRST Time TRAINING!

Very first lesson. Heel. Heel. Sit. Get her to sit. Get her to hold that sit. Hold it a bit longer. Every time hold it a bit longer and then reward her with a little retrieve and again back into me. Hello. Back into me for a little cuddle, a little bit of attention. Hi, my name's Charlie Thorburn. Welcome to Mordor Gundogs. This little puppy is, uh, hasn't actually got a name yet, but any of you who follow our, um, our Instagram, she's one of the puppies that the video I got a, um, a huge amount of, uh, views for being supposedly controversial, but hey-ho. Um, there was a mix of black Labradors and yellow Labradors and the mum split them up very evenly and we couldn't work out whether she was racist or she just had OCD. So I think, um, Wallace here is either hugely organized or she's racist. So here we are, uh, 11, 10 weeks on. Um, very first lesson. This is a really lovely little dog. Very attentive. Um, very attentive little thing. Uh, they're a little bit small for their, for their age because there was 11 of them. Um, so big litter. It was her first litter. So a little bit behind in terms of growth. Normally our puppies at this age are probably a bit of better workout for, for your arms, but she's catching up pretty fast and she's smart, attentive little dog. So where do we start? We just, we start with, uh, making sure you remember it's all about you. It's all about where you're going, what you're doing and, and, and encouraging the dog to follow you and pay attention to you. So I'm going to pop her down and I just spend my whole time just backing away from her. Now, at this age, I'm walking away backwards because I want to retain that kind of engagement with her, her looking at me. Hello. Hello. Sit, sit. Now people are going to say, Oh, it's not your first lesson because you've taught it to sit. It didn't learn that on its first lesson. No, it didn't. You're right. We teach them how to sit for their food from about five or six weeks old. So it's already learned that. So I'm just really just encouraging it. But this is the first time it's been out on this bit of grass out in the lawn here. She spends her day in a grass puppy pen with her sister and a couple of other Labradors off a different litter. So we're just going to try and get her to retrieve something. We get her to follow it around, rousing her up, get Lenny, keeping a focus on it all the time. And then we throw it. Now I've only thrown it about six feet. Well done. She's not, she's just holding onto it. I'm not trying to take it off, but I want her to be really happy about having that in her mouth. And then once she's had a little cuddle with it in her mouth, I take it off her. She retrieves the microphone. And now, now she's like looking now because she's a smart little thing. She's like, Oh, is there anything else to retrieve? So I need to re-engage her, get her back with me. The faster you go, the less time they've got to see anything else going on. Come on, throw it again. Soon as she picks it up this time, just backing away, making that recall to me faster, faster, and faster. So soon as she picks it up, she turns around cause she knows that I'm going to be on my way. Hey bubba, good girl. Now I've got her engaged in this, in this little retrieve thing at the moment. So by holding it here, heel, heel, come on, heel, heel, heel, sit. Good girl. So I walked along at heel just for, I don't know, five meters or something, just having her in the right place saying heel, heel, heel, heel, sit. Get her to sit, get her to hold that sit, hold it a bit longer. Every time, hold it a bit longer and then reward her with a little retrieve. And again, back into me. Hello. Back into me for a little cuddle, a little bit of attention, making sure we've got a really happy, confident little dog who wants to just be with us all the time. Thank you. What a good girl. What a good girl. Oh yes. Oh yes. And what they do at this point, they're very prone to doing is just as they come in to lick you, they get a bit overexcited and one of their sharp little teeth just goes on the inside of your nose and it bloody hurts like hell. And one of the things I regularly say on the video is learn from your mistakes. I still haven't learned. And 25 years later, regularly, I still get that little spike up my nose and my eyes water and I go, oh, I shouldn't do that again. And I carry on doing it. So for those of you who are getting a puppy, hopefully this little video is a little bit of useful information, but we're actually just about to launch a platform with loads more detailed videos, a real hand-holding step-by-step guide to kind of how we bring up young dogs. There's going to be videos in there. We've already made about 60. There's videos in there for puppies. There's videos in there for young spaniels. There's videos in there for blind retrieves. There's videos in there for pet dogs who are going to a park and how to go about walking your dog in the park. So there's a little bit or a lot for everybody. So keep your eyes peeled on our YouTube and social media, and you'll see the link appearing for that platform. Remember, you get out what you put in. Thanks for watching. And we'll see you next time.