My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Last night I trained at The Farm with Greg, Lee, Howard and Mike. We ran 9 dogs through a triple, double blind and derby double. Not bad for only a couple hours training.Tucker ran a tight triple left to right, long-long-short. Go bird no problem. Middle bird he had difficulty on locking onto it for [...]

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As it happens every spring, life seems to get busier. Since my last post I’ve been out training on a semi regular basis. Unfortunately I’ve not kept up my training journal - I plan to make a better effort to document progress from today forward.Shortly after we got back into the water up here, I [...]

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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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On Sunday I headed down to Niagara to visit my family and I managed to stop in Hamilton to train a bit at the Mountain Valley Retriever Training Club Picnic Trial. This is a fun event that is run similar to a trial but you are allowed to use training equipment (ecollar, heeling stick, [...]

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 Well, with the conclusion of our testing/trialing season what do you think we did yesterday…trained of course!
I received a call from some training friends that I’ve not been able to hook up with all summer, Ted and Katharine Haughton.  The have a young dog ‘Riley’ that this spring became Qualified All Age and because of [...]

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Tonight I had the forethought to taw some ducks, I was also able to recruit Andrew to throw and Jenni to handle.
Artemis was first and we threw a double both birds at about 50 yards - with about 90 degree separation.  Jenni allowed Artemis to focus on each of the two birds for a count [...]

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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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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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Today the two pups and I went down to Wybridge to train with the Georgian Bay Hunting Retriever Club, or at least a small group of them.  Anna, Eden, Marvin, Greg and Peter.
The snow is still too deep to train in the fields so we trained in a large cleared parking lot. 
First setup was a triple.  [...]

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