How would you teach a dog to retrieve?

Question

What is the best retrieving dog? What do I have to do to train it? Can you teach older dogs? My older dogs are 5 and 3. The 3 year old is a Jack Russell Terrier

Answer 1

You can teach an old dog new tricks!

Your Jack Russels are among the smartest of dog breeds.

There are kits available in the sporting goods section of Walmart stores that include a retrieving dummy, a silent whistle, and a book on how to teach your dog to retrieve birds and bring them to you to be rewarded. These same techniques can be used to train a dog to retrieve anything from a bird to a ball to the newspaper.