Great looking dog/best new friend ya got there! I always had black labs growing up and labs are great dogs.We'd train ours to bird and basically had a pistol with blanks (or a training blank gun) and a bouy. we'd make her stay and throw the bouy and shoot, then say ok and she'd chase the bouy and bring it back. reward, repeat. Labs love water so we'd do it over lakes as well. The best are the flying launches that can easilly go 10-15' off the end of a dock, those are the best. At our cabin, I like to float in the water at the end of the dock and have someone throw it and watch her fly over me. Fun stuff.