My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Last night I slipped down to tiny marsh and The Farm to do some training. Although it was raining we managed to get in some good work.At Tiny Marsh I ran Artemis on two channel blinds. The first was a short 50yd swim run off of a point to the end of a bay. The [...]

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One of the most enjoyable training sessions this month was with Greg Larden and his chocolate lab Suzy - out at Tiny Marsh.We were preparing our dogs to run at the Kingston Area HRC event. Suzy has developed a habit of making noise while watching the marks come out on water. Tucker has shown a [...]

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This past weekend I attended a GBHRC meeting at Tiny Marsh. Along with the meeting we managed to get in some training!Before most members arrived for the day Greg Larden and I got together and ran a ‘mail man’ drill with his dog Suzy and my dog Tucker. We initially had difficulty in finding a [...]

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On Wednesday I was able to get out with Artemis for some walk around blinds.  I would have much rather run marks but I had no gunners.
 
I set out 5 blinds with Artemis in heel beside me.  They ranged in distance from 90yds to 200 yds – left to right and were all about 30 [...]

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On Tuesday I took Artemis out to do 4 walk around blinds.  Tucker did not want to get of the couch perhaps the day out ice fishing was enough exercise for him.
The blinds ranged from 100yds to 250yds.  They were spaced out equally so that the line to each blind was easily understood that it [...]

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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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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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WOW, what a difference a day makes!Yesterday afternoon, after work, I asked (ok, told) my kids Jenni and Andrew to come outside and gun for me while I ran the dogs.
Tucker took his turn first. While getting ready I collected the ecollar and controller from the charging stand. Tucker, having been corrected a few nights [...]

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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 I’ve been able to get out with the dogs on a few occasions. I’ve been remiss in not entering a blog note because…well…since they are not a regular occurrence I find it difficult to get back in the habit.Two weekends ago Jo and I had the dogs out and trained a [...]

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