Alright, i gotta lab thats 2 months. I will throw her fetch toy to her, she will run to it and stand over it. how do i get her to pick it up and bring it to me. its very frustrating

2 months old. Barely away from the littermates. Give her a break. Work on crate training, sit, coming when called, housebreaking, stuff like that. Keep it all really fun. Go get a training book and read it.

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i agree with waiting...i also dealt with the same thing really frustrated me....key in on the natural instict of the dog....role a tennis ball in the house or where ever and if he/she doesnt pick it up role it again and make it fun....also get with another dog they learn in leaps and bounds from another dog

she already knows sit and stay and is an outside dog. so i guess ill just wait

If u want to get her going try and do small short retrieves, I found that a narrow hallway works the best. Its a short run and they have to come back towards u not run further away. Now if she was 6 months old and still soing this then you will probally need to force fetch her. U want to keep it a fun game for them they are kids the minute it becomes a work or not fun they will drop it

Even outside dogs need manners. Especially if you plan to spend hours with them in a hunting blind, camp, boat, truck, 4-wheeler. etc. Coming when called is pretty handy when hunting. I stared my last pup on whistles and sit together almost the day he came home. I started him on hand signals with his feeding as soon as I could get him to sit without me holding his collar with the bowl on the floor. There are a lot of things you can teach the dog in the early months that will help you and the dog.

You could always give the pup more incentive. Instincts are
"cool" when "triggered" correctly.

This is a 7 week old pup.

bird imprinting & retriever awakening

I got a video of my yellow at 12 weeks picking up a mallard outta the field, she had over 200 bird retireves by the time she was 1.