Hi Top Barks,
At the moment, some really simple stuff. Main thing he wants us to do is get him retrieving. Tennis ball, socks - anything really, but nothing too interesting. We've had some good sessions and some bad. Lots of praise, keeping it short so pup doesn't get bored, talking in quite high pitched / silly voice (
), not throwing the retrieve too far. Really trying to keep it fun. Most difficult part for us at the moment is we keep trying to do too much and Alfie then pegs it off with the retrieve.
The other thing we are doing is getting him used to the whistle. He's been really good picking up the recall and now we've just started trying the stop whistle when his bum hits the ground.
The main difficulty we are having is only doing 3 sessions a week as we always want to do more and then he gets bored / finds something more interesting.
I think this could get quite addictive!