[fabsroman]

Roy,

Labs are pretty intelligent, so I think you can train them in any manner you like. For instance, most people use "over" to cast their dog, but Nitro responds to "this way". There is no set way to train the dog, other than making the dog understand what you want him to do and repeating it over and over again, but I am sure you already know that since you have trained other dogs. Labs have a ton of energy.

Nitro always, and I mean always, wants to go out. At my parents' place, they have two soccer balls that are semi inflated and Nitro will fetch them all day long if my leg doesn't wear out. Of course, he has torn my parents' backyard to pieces. In one place, my dad decided to lay down a mulch bed around the plants instead of trying to repair the grass. Now, before everybody gets on me about destroying my parents' lawn, my dad is just as guilty, if not more so, than me.

I am going to start working with Nitro pretty soon myself. He needs some work before the hunting season comes in.