RE: Chesapeake bay training
Dogger, All the retrieving breed will be trained alike, how ever you are right about the chessie being hard headed. I hate to classify breeds but it is a true fact. If you want to do the training yourself then you better get several books to start reading, but in the mean time if the sole purpose of the dog is for waterfowl then start with obedience. It's never to early for obedience on a waterfowl dog, and what ever you do, do not play retrieving games for to long in a day. All you really need to do is throw about 4 to 5 retrieves per session, but no more than 2 times a day. You don't want pup to start getting bored of retrieving at such a young age, it will lead to you having to force fetch(force retrieve) him later, or pay someone to do it. Also chessies bond to a family but only one person in that family is really thier master, and that could turn into a problem (maybe).