Puppy Training Program
Claridge Kennels offers a puppy training program. This program is approximately three months long, starting at three months of age. The program consists of house training, obedience training, and beginning retriever training. House Training is just what it implies. Your pup is included into our home, trained to alert you when it needs to go outside, and crate trained. Obedience Training includes the verbal commands for heel, sit, here, along with whistle command for sit and here. These are the basic commands for both daily use and field trial use. Pups will also be taught what is unacceptable behavior, such as excessive barking, jumping on children, etc. Beginning retriever training is the foundation of all future field trial training. At this young age, patience and focusing on exposure to retrieving, guns, decoys, duck and goose calls, and birds is of the utmost importance. The puppies start out with fun retrieves of puppy bumpers and duck wings, then move up to full size bumpers, dolken ducks and real ducks by 6 months of age. By this time the obedience is in place and the pup if retrieving and returning (here/heel) to delivery the duck. Our training fee is $450.00 per month which includes boarding, food and training birds. Since we only take 2 puppies at a time, we recommend reserving a spot for your pup. We do require a $ 200.00 non-refundable deposit to reserve your pups spot. Once this process is complete Claridge Kennels recommends the pup proceed to advance training at several Professional Trainers
