
- Every dog deserves a forever home where it can grow old and retire gracefully.
- Cookie cutter training programs often weed out those who don’t perform to standard in the short run. Persistence and determination can succeed when you’re willing to go the distance.
- Training retrievers is a labor intensive sport. There are no shortcuts to success.
- Retriever Fever is a compulsive disorder brought on by wagging tails and genuine companionship with a dog.
- Training, testing and trialing will drain your piggy bank.
- Retriever Fever will cause you to dream of setting everything and buying 50 acres with tech water in the middle of nowhere.
- Don’t go looking at puppies unless you are prepared to come home with one.
- The IRS will not let you claim your retriever as a dependent.
- Buy pet insurance or establish an emergency fund. You will need on or the other.
- There’s a big difference between “handling” a dog in an event and actually training one.
- Scouting for new training spots while driving isn’t reckless driving, so I tried to tell the officer.
- Gift giving becomes easier for your family & friends. There’s an endless “need” for retriever equipment, clothes, training devices etc etc.