In the last newsletter I posted a few comments on dogs that will not come back. The number of hits I got on the site immediately following the newsletter was more than I would expect to get on any particular page in a month or two. So I looked up the subject in a few [...]

… and I was struck by the similarities between the training necessary for Gundogs and Cross Country equestrian training. At first the similarities may not be obvious, but the commentators were discussing the fact that the horse running at the time had refused that particular fence last year. The fence in question involved jumping

…like we did yesterday on the return leg of a trip from Scotland to Bristol, then if you need a break I would suggest that you break your trip by parking up for an hour or two to grab a pie (we both plumped for a duck and mandarin one) and to visit Charles R Sykes, the local [...]

One of the first things I decided when I first started training our English Springer Spaniel back in the early ’80s, was that two whistles were too complicated to handle. The convention at the time seemed to be to use a pea whistle to blast out the STOP command, and a higher pitched non-warbling whistle [...]

A suggestion on how to best spend your time training your dog during bad weather