I haven't been able to go hunting the last few weekends and my wife said the dog was getting a little rambunctious while I'm at work. Cabin fever. The blight of the hunting lab. So I've been making an effort to work with him more so he's not trying to play with my wife all the time.
Now I'm not sure if it was regression or laziness cuz honkers are heavy, but he started not retrieving big geese so we had work to do. After two days. About 30 minute sessions a piece we got him back in order. We corrected on the first day and really had fun with the big bastard the second day.
https://youtu.be/Ji2nJSAxfPU
Also had to do work with the baseball drill, but we made correction s today and quit after he did it correct twice in a row picking up all the dummies. Ending on a positive note. That's alot more handler intensive with hand signals and such so I couldn't record it.
They need practice too, just like an athletic profession.
It's simple. get a mud motor. shoot ducks in the face.