Training A (Bedlington) Terrier To Retrieve Game, How Would You Do It?

[Pig boy 29]

I'm looking into getting a Bedlington Terrier and was hoping to train it to retrieve shot game along with the usual bushing and ratting. But I was wondering how would you recommend teaching it to retrieve? I was thinking train it like a spaniel or lab but does that training method only work for the known gun dog type due to their certain nature and the abilities? So how would you go about training a Beddy to do so?

Many thanks

[ollywilli 49]

I am no expert, and nor have I had gundogs. But you may want to get purdys progress, as I am using the same techniques for the terriers too and it appears to be working, just a little and often. Retreival may not come natural to them so a nice toy may be good.

 

There is also a "tug" technique which some one sent me, I tink it was in contrymans. You may bne able to google it.

 

Good luck

[parsley 65]

trained mine the same as my gundogs fun and repatition never had a problem bedys dont like harsh treatment so take it easy,if your planning on eating your game maybe a terrier breed will be to hard mouthed atb

[floe 5]

I HAVE A BEDLINGTON RETRIVES NO PROBLEM ITS GETTING OOF IS THE PROBLEM

[Rory4 267]

A beddy wouldn't be my choice for retrieving edible game.