for any pup i get the training starts from day 1
beginning with bonding and calling them over to me
by 6 months i normally only expect a good recall, retrieving a dummy and to be almost fully stock broke
not always the case though and my pup is about 7 month and only retrieved to me twice and wont look at a dummy but been great with everything else and is jumping stock fence with no barb confidently and just started trying to get him to stay but can only get him to stay untill i walk back about 5/6yards and then he starts following me
but generally i only expect the above from th