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Making Lab use his nose


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Are you giving him a trail to follow or just sending him on a blind retrieve ?

I start mine at young age by putting their favorite ball / toy into light cover and encourage them to find it .

 

I will also drag a dummy along via some string tide to a cane or such like while the dog cannot see me , I will then take him to the start of the scent and encourage him to find it , it

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Your dog probably just can't be bothered to find a soggy old piece of canvas that smells of nothing in particular.

 

Do as others have said and take out one of his toys or at least rub the dummy on your hands to put some scent on it. If that fails put it under your arm pit.

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Put the dummies in his food bag if you have him on dried food and use the wind direction so the dog always works into the wind some times you have to send your dog off to one side of the dummy in order for him to sent it and turn in for the retrieve one foot up wind he will never find it

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Put the dummies in his food bag if you have him on dried food and use the wind direction so the dog always works into the wind some times you have to send your dog off to one side of the dummy in order for him to sent it and turn in for the retrieve one foot up wind he will never find it

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Another great idea ! Nice one

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It sounds like you've been doing a little bit too much handling with him so he's anticipating you directing him onto it instead on using his initiative. Some very good suggestions above, plus if sending him onto a blind/pile, put them in a corner, so he should wind them as he reaches the fence and it should encourage him to get his nose down.

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Put the dummies in his food bag if you have him on dried food and use the wind direction so the dog always works into the wind some times you have to send your dog off to one side of the dummy in order for him to sent it and turn in for the retrieve one foot up wind he will never find it

+1 in the past I've also put a dummy in my game bag when pigeon shooting/picking up.

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Some good advise here. I also found Blue was getting lazy and not using his nose but looking to me for guidance. So now I ask him to find it and then when he looks to me I give no direction but just ask again and let him get on with it. Sometimes when we know where it is we think why can they not smell it or see it but we need to remember we are a lot higher up than they are. Try getting down to their level and it all looks very different. After a days game or pigeon shooting I will put a dummy in with the game so it picks up some of the scent.

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