My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Tonight I needed to catch up on some chores around the house and I felt that a day off for the dogs to just be dogs was in order.  While I was puttering up in the garage I heard a loud crash of a water entry in the front yard.  I went to investigate and [...]

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I had a commitment to honour in Niagara today so I made arrangements to train on my way down. For the first time I was able to get out with Chris Bayles and his wife Pat - they run Artemis’s home kennel . Also training were Mark Comtois (owns a litter mate) and Skip Snow. I met [...]

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We trained at The Farm today with Anna, Eden, Martin Pinder and Bob Tolles.The set up was an over under mark with both birds thrown left to right and then a medium length gun station off to the left out of the picture.
Tucker ran the short over mark first and was sucked out to the [...]

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I managed to get out with Lee Woodhouse and Greg Larden at Tiny Marsh after work. We set up three guns in the field - Right gun short at 60yds, middle gun long at 200yds and left gun at 170yds. The right and middle gun were pretty tight.
I had discussed my concern with Artemis’s pop [...]

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This past weekend I was able to help out the Niagara Peninsula Retriever Training Club in hosting their annual Field Trial. I gunned in the Open and Qualifying Stake and was able to watch god portions of the Amateur and Junior stakes too.While there, watching from the gallery I was able to see some of [...]

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On the weekend of April 25th, 26th I had the pleasure of attending a Field Trial rules and judging clinic put on by the Ontario Retriever Association (ORA). The master of ceremonies was Jim Ling and the two presenters were Dennis Voigt and Richard Dresser - All three of these men have been in the [...]

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During Artemis’s recovery Tucker and I have snuck out a few times to train.Two no-no drills and two wagon wheel casting drills were completed along with two sets of 5 cold blinds.
We did manage to get out to run some marks on Thursday last. A couple by the name of Ted & Cynthia Gadawski were kind [...]

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Artemis has been resting to help recuperate her cut pad. The day of the accident I immediately headed back to the truck and drove to a near by pharmacy. There I purchased some saline solution to clean the wound and some crazy glue to knit it back together and hopefully stem the flow of blood. [...]

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The first attempt at a better method of documenting my training is now online.  Click on the link ‘Training Chart’ at the top of this page.  The chart opens in a new page.
I hope that this will make my continuous evatuation of my training program easier.  I will update this chart on a regular basis.

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Training Blog Rethink…
 
This blog has been a fun distraction. But it’s usefulness, to me has come to an end.
 
Benefits of this activity:
Primary:
It has forced me to get into the habit of analysing each training session within hours of having finished in the field.
 
Secondary:
It allowed some of my more experienced training partners/friends/acquaintances to be able to [...]

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