Dog Health Questions: Gun dog training tips, i need help with my 3 1/2 month old yellow lab. Help?

i have a 3 1/2 month old pup and when i play fetch with her she just walks to the toy and sometimes i need to push her to go. What do i do? And what do i say when i want her to fetch, do i say her name or what? Also i need tips on how to train her to heal.
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i have a gun dog spent 1 year training her to fnd she is terrifyed of gun shots.so buy a blank pistol to see if she can tolerate it most dogs can.fist you must teach her to sit,stay,lay down,fetch on command and to bring the fetched item back 100 % of the time (nothin worse than a dog swimmin away with ur duck)also buy her a trainer bird or one of those buoys and maybe even one of thos eguns that shoots em out there real far and be sure to let her swim ALOT.when you throw somthin,pinch her ear a bit not to hard just eough so she stays and let go and tell her to go get it on command. good luck

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• get her attention with the toy, like tease her and wave it in her face. throw it, if she get's it praise her alot.


• Nail the basic commands first. Sit, stay, here. Usually when you send her to retrieve, you say the dogs name first then the send or fetch command. When she retrieves, call her back, then say "dead" for her to drop the bird at your feet. Takes a lot of effort & work, but my uncle had a champion gun dog... it's great to watch them work, they live for it. Best of luck.


• If you haven't already desensitized your dog to gunshots you're running out of time, and it may be too late already. You need to work on that as well. Can you get the dog excited about the toy first, throwing it up in the air, teasing her with it, before throwing it?
  
  www.fearfuldogs.com/books.html has a list of good general training books