RE: Question about a Yellow Lab!
When we put pheasant wings on the dummy, our dog absolutely loved it. He did tend to keep the pheasant in his mouth longer than what he would normally do. But, I do remember sometimes when he would just start trying to pluck the feathers out, my dad just yelled no to him. Like you said, you didn't want to shock her for fear of associating feathers with a negative consequence, so my dad just yelled no really loud at him, and told him to bring it back. He brought it back, then wanted to keep playing fetch.