Archive for the ‘Retriever/Hunting Dogs’ Category
Dog Training – more uses for your wire crate (Part 1)
Monday, August 23rd, 2010I know you realize you can use your wire crate for your dog to sleep in, but did you realize you can also use it for training?
Teach your dog how to find things
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Teaching your dog to find things can be a lot of fun for both you and your dog. The dog you see in this video is a four -month-old puppy. This training exercise can also get your puppy used to navigating through tall grass. You don’t see it in this video but it’s best to [...]
Teach your Labrador Retriever Puppy to honor (Part 2)
Sunday, August 15th, 2010This is part two (Click LABRADOR RETRIEVER to see part 1)of teaching a Labrador retriever puppy to honor while another dog runs. The puppy is again started in a kennel and placed close to the water. This time though the older dog is set back a little ways so that he will have a good [...]
Teach your Labrador Retriever puppy to honor (Part 1).
Sunday, August 15th, 2010In this puppy training video, you have to look closely to the right of where my wife Lianne is standing with her yellow Lab, “Dooley”, and you will see a kennel placed there and that is where my young Labrador Retriever puppy “Kohl” is sitting in. I’m able to control the puppy from across [...]
Teach your dog to come with a whistle.
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010The video that you see below about teaching your dog to come to you with a whistle in water can come in handy. I use 3 consecutive whistle toots to teach the dog to come. You would overlay this just like you would use a command. Different dog sports use whistles in a variety of [...]
Puppy Training – Challenging games in the pool.
Saturday, July 24th, 2010My puppy has already learned to get into and out of the water safely, a long with knowing how to retrieve in water also. Today is just a fun little game of having him negotiate a little obstacle on a straight line to the pool. These little games of learning to go straight through, [...]
Dog Training Tip: Teaching Fetch Remotely
Monday, April 5th, 2010Today’s dog training tip involves the progression of how to teach a dog to fetch a static object while the dog is at a distance from the handler (remotely). Following six month old puppy ‘Phender’ through the steps of how to pick up an object (in today’s case a tennis ball is used) that is [...]
Dog Training – Puppies grow up fast!
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010This dog training video shows a couple of 14 month old Labradors learning to listen well while another dog comes running by them. They are learning to be hunting retrievers, but the skills that they learned as young dogs in dog parks carry over to advanced training later. You will be able to click on [...]
Retriever Dog Training
Saturday, February 6th, 2010Whether it’s teaching a hunting to go straight and come back in water or just having fun with your dog near the swimming pool, Sit Means Sit Dog Training can make your life easier by giving you off-leash control of your dog and make it easier to move him around and be able to show [...]
Advanced Retrieve Training Drill
Friday, December 11th, 2009This is an advanced retrieve training drill where the dog remains in a stationary position while still having the ability to pick up and drop thing while remaining in the same place. A hunting dog retrieving bumper was used to show the ability to have the dog stop mouthing an object from a distance, or [...]
My Labrador Retriever loves the Bumperboy launcher
Friday, November 27th, 2009By Fred Hassen This is my 11 month old Labrador Retriever ‘Charger’ on his very first time using a Bumperboy. The bumperboy is great because it allows me to be able to shoot multiple bumpers at a distance, in different directions, and am able to do it remotely with a handheld remote. The bumperboy is [...]
Dogs will be dogs – I’m sure you’ve experienced this!
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009This is a fun video of what dogs sometimes love to do, and that is to be just a little sneaky! It always make you laugh when you see these types of things, and reminds us why we all love dogs so much. Dog training is a never ending challenge, and you sometimes never know [...]
Tank’s First AKC Hunt test
Monday, February 9th, 2009Lianne Hassen and ‘Tank’, are seen here taking and passing their very first AKC Hunt Test as a team. Lianne and ‘Tank’ have already achieved this year’s National Championship in DockDogs in the senior division, and also have 2 perfect scores at the highest level of AKC Rally competitions! We wish them the best in [...]
Hunting Retriever Training – Tank’s first Duck
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Lianne Hassen and ‘Tank’ get to retrieve their first duck. Tank sure had fun that day, and Lianne was learning to deal with ducks.
Hunt Test Training
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Lianne Hassen and Tank on Tank’s first day with a bird in water. Lianne is practicing to compete Tank in Hunt Tests.
Teach your dog multi-tasking
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Fred Hassen is seen here with his 19 month old Belgian Malinois ‘Rex’, demonstrating a remote retrieve, an ‘out’ command, and a ‘place’ command all rolled into one! Dogs can multi-task just like people! Click to see another example of a dog multi-tasking . World wide Locations Sit Means Sit Franchise information
FUNNY DOG TRAINING VIDEO | FRANK THE TANK
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Protection Training at it’s best!!! Members of Sit Means Sit dog training have fun with ‘Tank’, the Labrador Retriever owned by Lianne Hassen. This crowd show-stopping performance was at the Rolex 3 day event 2008, where Sit Means Sit was one of the Corporate sponsors. Sit Means Sit dog trainers, and their dog training schools [...]
Dog Trainer Lisa Myers of Sit Means Sit
Monday, February 11th, 2008Lisa Myers of our Sit Means Sit South Jersey dog training location, is shown here with her Search and Rescue dog’s ‘Sampson’ (Golden Retriever), and Rocky (Pitbull). Kristin Zimmerman and her young German Shepherd from the Sit Means Sit South Jersey location is also seen here briefly with her dog barking on the bark barrell. [...]
Dog Training at the World of Pets Expo
Monday, January 28th, 2008Sit Means Sit Dog Training is the world’s leader in dog training business. The Sit Means Sit philosophy of The “No Excuses” dog training company, makes it so the general public will raise it’s bar to actually see how well the dogs are getting trained, and how easily that training will be transferred over to [...]
Swimming dog training – Los Angeles California
Friday, December 14th, 2007This is a dog training video clip of one of the clients of our Los Angeles Dog Trainer Luciano Aguilar, from our Sit Means Sit office in L.A. Teaching dogs to swim is another one of many things that quite a few of the Sit Means Sit locations specialize in, and it makes life easier [...]
Advanced placeboard work video
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007In this video, you will see Fred Hassen using a simple placeboard for some advanced drills of getting a dog to run straight, sit straight, and to stop out of motion right in place. Placeboards are started with larger objects, but can eventually be brought into smaller, and smaller increments because of the dogs ability [...]
Practicing Jumps, and Water Entries
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Fred Hassen and Ashton Fitzgerald, have fun practicing a little free-lance jumping and water entry drills. This started as just a fun little thing with the dogs, and before you know it, it turned into just thinking of just about every conceivable way that they could have their dogs going over and under things. The [...]
Whistle Sit’s and Straight Lines Retriever training
Friday, August 24th, 2007Clip of Fred Hassen teaching a dog straight lines over barriers, and moving them around with a remote. In this clip there is pairing of whistle commands with the remote, and starting and stopping enthusiastically. Dogs jumping takes a good bit of energy, and is implemented for not only visual cues of straight lines, but [...]
Pet Dog Training | Dog Training Video
Monday, August 13th, 2007The great thing about pet dog training with Sit Means Sit, is that you can take your dog anywhere, and make him the best pet possible! Where are there more pet dogs than in a public dog park?? The distractions of the other dogs, and the various things in this particular environment, really make it [...]
Dog Training Collar
Monday, August 13th, 2007Dog training collars have evolved a lot over the years but one thing is for certain, Fred Hassen has been at the fore front in the advancement of remote electronic dog training and it was only a matter of time before his efforts evolved into his own brand in remote dog training equipment and supplies. [...]
Recent Posts
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- Is Your Dog Ready for the Hunt?
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- Dog Training – Teach your dog to ‘crawl’ or ‘hide’
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- Spay and Neuter Laws – Clark County Nevada



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