My Duck Dog Training A to ?

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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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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This past weekend we invited Greg Larden to come up and visit with his chocolate lab Suzy. Suzy gets along with Artemis like ham and eggs - Suzy and Tucker well, lets just say they get along like a young married couple.On Saturday we managed to squeeze in a little training while ice fishing and [...]

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The past two weeks have been Christmas holidays. The dogs have enjoyed a steady diet of winter weather walks combined with hand thrown ‘fun bumpers’. No real retriever work. That all changed yesterday.We went out ice fishing yesterday. Both dogs came out with us for the entire day. The ice was frozen slush ice so [...]

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This afternoon Jenni and I took both dogs my canoe over to a portion of the cattle grazing field.We ran Artemis on a Blind Drill in another fresh location. First identifying the pile then running the blind - putting the gunner out - running the blind - throwing the mark - collecting the mark. No [...]

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Tonight Andrew and & I took the two dogs by canoe across the river to train in a cattle pasture field. A corner of this field is where both Artemis and Tucker we schooled in their double T drill - I rarely use this portion of the field.Andrew walked out into the field and placed [...]

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Today late afternoon, I recruited Joanne to come and train.  Tucker, Jo and I walked the field and planted 5 bumpers at each of the side piles and three at the centre pile.
 
Artemis was taken to the line first.  I lined her to the right pile then the left pile.  Each of these sends she [...]

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 Today I managed to slip away and run Artemis on the swim-by pond again.  We have not been training for the past two days - life and shorter day light hours are getting in the way.
13 bumpers at the back pile - NO bumpers at the side piles.
Today went GREAT, better than I could have [...]

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 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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Yesterday evening after having ignored both dogs the day before, I decided to work them on fun marks for a change of pace.
Joanne and Jenni were attending a craft fair so it was left to Andrew and I to run the training session.  Andrew (9yo) was given the option to either handle Tucker or throw [...]

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