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Old May 21st, 2006, 06:35 PM
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In-Water Training - Golden Retrievers

My Golden puppy - Amber - is just coming 10 months and her element is the water. She loves it - but when she is in the water, all obedience training is out the window. It's as if I don't exist. The come command doesn't work at all but on land she is fine with obedience. Is there anything special I should be doing to get her to realize that the commands are meant for water???? Sounds silly but when in the water she tunes me right out. She does bring sticks back but today she just got in there and swam and swam - I was afraid she was going to swim across the harbour! Today, too, for the first time she actually swam underwater! Scared me but she was having a blast!
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