My Duck Dog Training A to ?

On Sunday we were hit once again with snow - now with glare ice covered with snow, it isn’t safe to train with the dogs on any field or lake surface :(  The Correction match that we intended to attend on Sunday was canceled (reschuled for Apr 6th)  We will be running Tucker in an [...]

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We’ve spent the past few days training in the house for Obedience.   No major breakthroughs here, just steady progress.
 However, TODAY Tucker and I went down to train with Anna and Eden down near Tiny Marsh.  The snow down there is as deep as it is here so we trained in a cleared parking lot.
1st we [...]

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The weather has turned - over a foot of snow on the ground and more coming down, sideways.  I had asked the members of my training group about what they did for training in the dead of winter.  Most continued training - using parking lots or fields that had been blown clear of most of [...]

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Joanne and Tucker went for their final Obedience class last night.  The weather was awful and only one other dog/handler made it to the class.  Ruth, our instructor walked Joanne through a Novice (cd) style trial.  Both Jo and Tucker did very well.  It certainly put Joanne at ease about competing at the trial - [...]

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Today I had to travel to North Bay for an appointment.  I took Tucker with me and left Artemis at home in his kennel.  Upon returning home, I spent the day allowing the dogs to learn to interact with each other.  Again, Tucker wanted to play a little rougher than I was comfortable with.  He [...]

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Tucker took Joanne to the Obedience Class last night.  He was wound right up, he hadn’t been run all day so he had saved up his energy for the class.  He was sooo bouncy that I aired him before the class (instead of letting Joanne).  I had hoped that  by demanding his compliance to my [...]

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