Trained My Lab To Pick Up Toys. Discussion starter · #1 · dec 16, 2008. Encourage your dog to investigate it, pick it up, carry it around, and bring it back to you if he wants to.
To begin, introduce your pup to a bird wing with the feathers still on. He started this process at 10 months and at 12 months he was picked up ducks. So if at any time he drops the retrieve accidentally, he can simply be asked to pick it up again.