I have no experience with this type of dog, but I have been training my Cheasapeake bay retriever for the last year and a half. You need to start working with your dog now. Start with the basics like sit, stay, here, and heal. Do these with rewards (food) for the first few weeks and then change to random rewards until the dog can do them without any rewards. This would be a good start and should be done daily. After this I started having my dog work on retrieving bumpers which I don't think would be applicable to your training. Get a book or find a trainer, but they key is getting them started as early as possible. Hope this helps.