My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Yesterday afternoon I had an opportunity to invite two trainers with their dogs out to train with me.
One dog Barney is a 2 1/2 yo male chocolate lab. Barney has been exposed to field work before and has lots of prey drive. The other dog Rio is a Female Black Lab that is [...]

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Monday it rained pretty well the entire day. About 10pm it stopped and I offered to take the dogs for a walk. Artemis began her bouncing with excitement routine and Tucker, seeing how wound Tucker was, decided to stay in the house. Artemis, without Tucker, was a dream to walk! She really [...]

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Jo and I took both of the dogs for a walk this morning. Joanne usually walks Artemis but this morning she ask me to walk with her and Jo took Tucker.
Both dogs are comfortable walking on either side of the handler. Tuckers’ primary or default side is left and Artemis’s is on the [...]

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Monday was a bust for training - too much work to get caught up on. Yesterday although we didn’t get out into the field, it was Artemis’s final puppy class. Joanne took Artemis and I accompanied them with Tucker.
Artemis was SOOO ramped up. She heeled ok but her down stay was only [...]

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Work kept me late last night so we didn’t get out with the dogs at all.
While airing the dogs at night, they both go out without any leads or collars. On the weekends when there are a lot of people up at their cottages in my neighborhood I usually put the ecollar on Tucker [...]

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Jenni had a baseball practice and Andrew had a soccer practice last night.  Joanne took Tucker and I took Artemis to watch the respective games.  Both were pretty good for the first ‘game night’ of the season.
After the sporting events I had enough day light left to do a short session with Artemis out in [...]

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Artemis & Tucker spent most of yesterday in the house.  Artemis has her puppy class every Tuesday and she hadn’t been out for a good walk since Monday.  So, Jenni and I took Artemis out and did 6 walking singles - relatively short about 30yds long.  She did very well.  She did however, drop one [...]

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 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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Last night Jenni & I nipped out to train both dogs.Artemis was first.  We ran 8 walking single marks.  The first started within range of the long line and I progressively moved over and away from the line.  The longest of the marks was about 75 yards.  I was careful to land each mark in [...]

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We’ve continued to do basic OB with Artemis every morning on our walk.  Tucker has not had much pressure the last few days, in hopes that his general attitude improve.  On Friday evening I took both dogs for a ‘wilderness walk’ down a local logging road.  Tucker knew where we were as soon as we [...]

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