Boru and I are doing pretty well. We haven't mastered the range of commands recommended in Dokken's Retriever Training, but that's more my fault than Boru's. He's mastered "come" and "sit" with ease, so I'm sure he'd have "down" and "place," and "crate" if I was more diligent with my training.
According to the the Dokken bible that I'm following, by now, Boru should have been introduced to feathers. This is something that I'm very eager to do after hearing a story from my grandfather about his brother's dog who would retrieve anything, as long as it didn't have feathers.
