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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Distraction bird drill'
Winter training on the ice.
January 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blind drills, Blinds, Distraction bird drill, poison bird drill, walking singles
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Dog in a canoe, Both run water marks & Artemis CC
June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Collar Conditioning, Distraction bird drill, water work
On Friday evening, last, Artemis was introduced to our canoe for the first time. We began with the canoe on dry ground. I heeled her through it twice. Then I sat her in it for a while. Then I sat her in it again and rocked to side to [...]
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Wingers & marks
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Distraction bird drill, Line Manners, Puppy basics, long line, obediance
Last night we used our newly aquired Zinger Wingers. Jenni also used the shotgun for the first time in training.
Tucker’s set up was a relatively simple 70 yd single with a distraction bird thrown on the way in. I ran it as a hunt test - bucket for Jenni to run from, duck call from [...]
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Weekend OB & Picnic Trial
April 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Blinds, Distraction bird drill, Niagara Group, Puppy basics, long line, obediance, triples
This weekend was a busy one! Joanne took Jenni, Andrew, Andrew’s friend Calum and Tucker to Sudbury. Unfortunately I was unable to go with them. They attended the Sudbury District Kennel Club’s OB Trial. Along with this trial, the club was playing host to the Zone 4 (northerm Ontario) Junior Obedience Handlers finals - the winner [...]
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Weekend gone to the dogs - Monday
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Blinds, Distraction bird drill, long line, obediance, triples
On Monday morning I headed out to GBHRC to train with a much smaller group. Namely: Anna and Keith. The three of us were going to train at the parking lot again but it was full of cars so we headed out to Keith’s farm in the hope that the snow, although too deep would [...]
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Niagara Group day #1
February 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Blinds, Distraction bird drill, Niagara Group
On Friday I asked and was invited to join two Niagara area trainers in their training session. Ron and Al both have advanced dogs and are preparing their dogs to run in the Ontario Sportsman Show next month. This show is a hunt test senerio so we set out a spread of Canada Goose decoys [...]
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Tucker and I on the road again
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Blind drills, Distraction bird drill, poison bird drill
Tucker and I have travelled to Niagara again yesterday. On the way down we stopped at The Farm to train with Anna and Eden. They were kind enough to come out on my request to run the dogs in a commercial parking lot.
We ran a blind, cold to start and then progressively longer as a learned [...]
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