Some of the best times you can have with dogs is in the company of like minded people. For those of us who are new to training gundogs I would recommend joining a local gundog training club if you are lucky enough to have one operating in your area. Besides the experience the club members have, it also brings the opportunity for competition… Continue reading this entry…
…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 shooting, fishing and gun dog training shop. Continue reading this entry…
We have probably all been there… the dog is off the lead, there is a moment of inattention, a distraction occurs, and the dog is off. And will it come back? Not on your nelly! I have a problem at the moment, with a dog that is both deaf and blind. The solution to this is simple; I just have to Continue reading this entry…
How does hunting dog training differ from training the retrieving breeds? The retrieving breeds should not be exposed to too much game early on, because of the risk of losing interest in the dummies used for retriever training. The Spaniel breeds and the HPR (hunt, point, retrieve) breeds should also be schooled in the art of the retrieve before moving on to hunting.
The reason for this is Continue reading this entry…
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 for all other commands. This led to the situation where Continue reading this entry…