We at Louter Creek Hunting Poodles are striving to breed back the Hunting Poodles with good drive to retrieve in and out of the water. Standard Poodles are very intelligent, easily trained and are proven to be efficient water retrievers.
Our dogs are trained slow and steady to achieve the desired results which is an outstanding, reliable waterfowl retriever. Training begins at an early age of eight weeks by retrieving stuffed toys and bird wings. It is also essential to introduce them to water at an early age, and to different bodies of water and different terrain as they get older. Basic training (leash, crate, come & sit commands, hunting acclimation (water, birds, guns) and good citizenship (house breaking, car travel, kids, family play) etc.

It takes a lot of time and dedication to train your poodle yourself, but in the end it is well worth it, as there is a real bond between the hunter and life long hunting companion. We made the choice to train Cooper ourselves with no use of e-collars or force fetch training.

Here are some good books that have been great tools to us, The Ten Minute Retriever, Retriever Training (A Back-to-Basics Approach) by Robert Milner and Water Dog by Richard A. Wolters. Most important is to practice different drills such as the depth perception drill which really helps them use their eyes for marking (watching the fall of the bird).

People often ask how many passes (points) you need for a UKC Hunt title. Retrieval of two single birds on land and two from the water equal one pass (5 points). The retriever has to mark his retrieve and go directly to the bird, pick it up and bring it back to the handlers area. Your retriever has to earn a total of four passes (20 points) to achieve his SHR (Started Hunting Retriever) title.

At 14 months old Cooper has obtained his first Hunting title with the UKC called SHR (Started Hunting Retriever) and a WC (Working Certificate) . He is now retrieving 100 yard land marks, 50-60 yard water marks, including doubles and short blind retrieves. We will be working with Cooper to obtain his AKC title in the spring and will enjoy duck hunting with him this fall and winter. We also look forward to running hunt tests next Spring with our young RED girls!




 

 11/17/07 Opening day of Duck Season is finally here and what
a great time we had in North West Georgia.
Cooper had his work cut out for him as we had four hunters.

CONSERVE GAME BY USING

A TRAINED RETRIEVER !

SOUTHERN STANDARDS RED CREOLE  WC

 "Cooper" gets a pass at the Music City HRC in TN

Cooper gets his WC (Working Certificate) at the CCPC All Poodle Hunt Test in NC  9-16-07

Pictures taken at the WC/ WCX all Poodle hunt test on 9-16-07

Layla  retrieving a duck at 5 months

Reba retrieving a Chuckar at 8 wks.
	Reba retieving a Mallard at 8 wks.

 

Cooper retrieving a duck	Cooper coming to shore with a duck

Jolie hunting in 2006

 Reba's First Pheasant Hunt at 6 months. old

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