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no-nos, head swinging, injury…

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, Blinds, Line Manners, no-no drill

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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Big Training session

April 5th, 2009 · No Comments · ABCD Drill, Blinds, no-no drill, poison bird drill, triples

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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Taking a line of changing cover - long blinds - PHEASANT HUNTING!

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Blinds, Hunting!, no-no drill

This past Friday night through Sunday AM, Tucker and I stayed at Greg Larden’s house. Greg is a fellow member of the GBHRC and has a chocolate lab named Suzy that Tucker would like for his girl friend.
On Saturday Greg and I along with out two dogs trained in a snow covered field near [...]

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The Farm - proofing the Swim-By

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Blind drills, Blinds, Line Manners, no-no drill, retired guns, swim-by, walking singles

 Training at The Farm yesterday was great!  Most of the experienced trainers that I have trained with at The Farm at one time or another were in attendance.  Because of the large number of dogs to be run we did not get too many set ups done as a group but it is sessions like [...]

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Pro Bill Little Seminar

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments · B & D Drill, Blind drills, no-no drill

 WOW!!
Jenni, Tucker and I attended a dog training seminar at the Farm this weekend.  We were introduced to Pro Trainer Bill Little.  He has forgotten more about dog training than I’ll ever know!  It was truly amazing, wow.
I will not detail what we learned at the seminar.  Both Jenni and I kept written notes of [...]

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Cold blinds, No-no drill & Walking singles!

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Blinds, long line, no-no drill, walking singles

 Tonight after school Jenni and I ran both dogs
Tucker was first.  Jenni ran him on a No-no drill using a small barrier jump.  Then she ran him on the same drill through some bulrushes.  Tucker did well and appeared to learn that the same principal using the barrier is applied to the weed cover.  Jenni [...]

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Yard & Class

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Puppy basics, no-no drill, obediance, poison bird drill

 Yesterday I did a short session with each dog - it was also puppy class for Artemis & Joanne.  I gave the opportunity for Tucker to train first today.  However, he sulked so I trained Artemis first and left Tucker to watch through the window.
Artemis and I worked on ‘hold’ while walking in left heel [...]

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Back from THE FARM

November 19th, 2007 · No Comments · B & D Drill, Blinds, no-no drill

Yesterday morning all five of us headed out to train at the farm.  Other trainers in attendance were: Anna, Eden, Marvin, Martin & Greg.
It was a great day through and through.  The weather was about -1 all day but little wind and brilliant sunshine!  We ran two setups this day.
First set up was a hunt test [...]

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CDX practice in the park

November 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized, no-no drill, obediance

Yesterday afternoon I needed to pick Jenni up after her band practice and took her over to her choir practice and at the same time pick up Andrew to take him home with me. I arrived 30 minutes early and decided to go across the road to a park to run Tucker through a [...]

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