how to get my lab to retrieve birds.?

i have a female lab she is one year old. i have been training her to be a duck hunting dog. she knows her obedience very well and loves to retrieve balls and dummies. but when i plant frozen doves and ducks for her to find and retrieve she chews them up and shakes them around. how can i get her to be more gentle with the birds and bring them back? please help its quite frustrating....

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1. Don't use frozen birds. They need to be thawed out (later in the training)
2. You will likely need to do a force fetch first
3. Start with a retrieving retrieving buck, bumpers, or Dolkin ducks DON"T start with birds. You then can move to a retrieving bumper that has some wings tied to it.
It is very common for novice dogs to chew birds. There is a number of ways to break this but is best NOT allowing her to start the habit by getting her used to retrieving to hand first then add real birds.

madrat: retrievers hunt DEAD birds dear. The ducks are shot prior to them being retrieved..hence the ducks are already dead

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Can I Train My Puppy To Use Litter Box?

We've had our puppy for about a month now. It's such a hassle to try to potty train him. We put newspaper down in the house and in the garage. Our previous dog used to ring a bell by the door leading to the garage when she had to go. We'd open the door for her, she'd run down the stairs into the garage, do her business, and run back up the stairs into the house.

She was a poodle, and poodles are supposed to be the second-smartest dogs. Our new dog is a dummy. Even though we're teaching him to ring the bell, he's peeing and pooing everywhere! Sometimes I wish we had a cat, but my dad is allergic to cats.

That begs the question...can we train our dog to use a litter box? If he used a litter box, we wouldn't have to keep cleaning up the soaking wet newspaper every day. Has anyone ever trained their puppy to use a litter box?

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