My Duck Dog Training A to ?

 Just came in from an impromptu training session.  We are doing some drywall work at the house and after the first application Jo said, let’s go train J
Jo, Jenni, myself and the two dogs loaded up and headed over to the baseball diamond.
Artemis was first with some walking singles.  Once again we were throwing them [...]

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Today Joanne ran Tucker on a BD drill. This was her first time doing yard work/drills of any kind with Tucker. Tucker did well and Joanne did great. It will be awhile until her confidence builds but for a first effort it was more than I could have hoped for.
I gave the [...]

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 Artemis’s force fetch continues.  She had one session on Monday night, two on Tuesday and two on Wednesday.  We have progressed the fetch to the ground then extended it out gradually - now about 12 feet.  I increased the pressure on the ear pinch gradually - and her speed increased in lock step.  She did [...]

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This past Friday, Tucker and I had went out to the local field and we set out 4 ducks to be used running blinds.  After setting them out, I set up and ran a BD drill.  Unfortunately this field is not suited to this drill.  It is too domed in shape.  Tucker didn’t seem to [...]

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 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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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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