Pretty much every dog I’ve had will retrieve and I do the same thing with every pup , take the pup out on it’s own when it’s still at the stage where it stays close to you , I normaly use a load of old socks rammed in to eachother the wrap a skin round it and cable tie it on , take the pup out somewhere where it’s not going get distracted and do couple little retrieves and praise them massively , I normaly make that big a fuss of them and talk in stupid voice give them a belly rub , do that couple times each walk and it seems to ingrain in them , then one ever there around 5 /6 months I just c