First a confession; I don’t train as many dogs as I would like. Basically, the buggers live so long that if you trained one a year you’d end up with a dozen even if you were careless enough to lose one or two along the way. A side effect of keeping a dozen dogs is [...]

To successfully train any dog, let alone one subjected to the challenges and temptations that face a gun dog, you have to be the focus of his world, at least whilst he is working or training. To get the best out of your relationship, it is important to reward the dog with whatever motivates it [...]