My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Andrew has expressed an interest handling Artemis in a retrieving event.  The two of us will be loading Artemis up and heading down to the Working Certificate Test held by the Mountain Valley Retrieving Club near Hamilton.
 
Andrew was out today to run Artemis and Jenni was out with Tucker.  They took turns throwing for each [...]

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Last night I trained at The Farm with Greg, Lee, Howard and Mike. We ran 9 dogs through a triple, double blind and derby double. Not bad for only a couple hours training.Tucker ran a tight triple left to right, long-long-short. Go bird no problem. Middle bird he had difficulty on locking onto it for [...]

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Last night I slipped down to tiny marsh and The Farm to do some training. Although it was raining we managed to get in some good work.At Tiny Marsh I ran Artemis on two channel blinds. The first was a short 50yd swim run off of a point to the end of a bay. The [...]

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As it happens every spring, life seems to get busier. Since my last post I’ve been out training on a semi regular basis. Unfortunately I’ve not kept up my training journal - I plan to make a better effort to document progress from today forward.Shortly after we got back into the water up here, I [...]

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You’ll see if you open up my training log that we’ve spent a few training sessions on the no-no drill.  My patients & understanding while running this drill have improved - resulting in greater improvement in my dog’s understanding.  It won’t be long before I’ll be able to take this concept ‘go as sent’ to [...]

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I Trained with Greg Larden this morning getting in a set of marks, set of blinds (poison bird for Tucker) and a no-no drill with both my dogs & Greg’s dog.  Then in the afternoon I headed to The Farm to socialize & help gun.  I ran Artemis on a ABCD drill.  Both dogs impressed [...]

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This past weekend I attended a GBHRC meeting at Tiny Marsh. Along with the meeting we managed to get in some training!Before most members arrived for the day Greg Larden and I got together and ran a ‘mail man’ drill with his dog Suzy and my dog Tucker. We initially had difficulty in finding a [...]

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OK, catch up time.
Last weekend while I was up north, my wife Jo and daughter Jenni trained the dogs in my absence.They threw two singles for each dog. Both were momma/poppa singles - both marks being thrown in opposite directions from the same gun station…usually thrown as a double but this time, two singles. Both [...]

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This past ‘ Day’ weekend the four of us packed up along with the two dogs and travelled to Brockville to visit my in-laws.
While there, I managed to hook up with a resident Field Trial trainer of 20 some years experience.  I met him on the Canadian Hunting Dogs Forum (see my link list on [...]

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First time we got out two days back-to-back in quite a while. Tucker ran first today again using one primer pistol and real birds.The double was set up short long with the blind outside of the marks. Today I corrected (heeling stick) for his push-up position when the marks were thrown. He responded appropriately and [...]

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