My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Today I decided to continue with teaching her the angle in piles. I only placed out the two angle in piles. I then gave her a come in whistle along with the angle in cast. She was confused and she came in to heel. I walked her back to the starting point and this time [...]

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On Tuesday I took Artemis to a local parking lot and ran her on a 8 handed casting drill.  I reinforced the piles already learned – back, angle right, angle left, right over, left over.  She did GREAT!  I was very pleased.  And wrapped up the drill with a cast to each pile.

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This past ‘ Day’ weekend the four of us packed up along with the two dogs and travelled to Brockville to visit my in-laws.
While there, I managed to hook up with a resident Field Trial trainer of 20 some years experience.  I met him on the Canadian Hunting Dogs Forum (see my link list on [...]

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The day before yesterday I took Artemis in to town with me on one of my ‘taxi’ trips to drop Andrew off at indoor soccer. Rather than watching the 12 players all run after the ball (rec league) I decided to do some drill training.
In the empty, well lit church parking lot - my kinda [...]

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Today i took Artemis into Parry Sound with me.  She slept in the jeep while I worked the morning.  Late in the afternoon I took her to a local parking lot and we began her first 8 handed casting drill.
I started with only putting out the two angle back piles.  She did so well with [...]

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 The past couple of days have been very busy at work.  I had big plans to train but it just did not work out.  I was able to take the dogs out on Monday and again on Tuesday for a long walk in the late afternoon/evening.  Both dogs enjoyed the freedom to romp.
I received in [...]

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 Once again on Friday I was able to hook up with Kyle to train.
Artemis was first in the yard and I continued her force to pile drill.  This was our first attempt at ‘stop to pile’.  From a remote position I gave her a ‘back’ cast and she took in nicely.  Enroute, I blew a [...]

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 Today I hooked up with Kyle and his young CBR ‘Sage’.
Kyle has been working hard with Sage, he wants to get her ready for hunting season this September.  The level of training that they are looking for is hunting dog with little interest in playing the dog games.  Since the last time we trained together [...]

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 We trained today early in the afternoon.  I brought Jenni along with me and the two dogs.
Artemis was first - continued her force to pile.  Today I was determined to get her to take a back cast at a distance.  By repeating the command and walking towards the pile, Artemis finally got the idea that [...]

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 I recruited both kids today for marks.
Jenni ran both dogs while Andrew and I were gunners in the field.
Tucker was run on two pair of doubles.  The first one short long and the second one long short.  The short mark was thrown into short cover while the long marks was in medium/heavy cover.  Jenni was [...]

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