My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Andrew has expressed an interest handling Artemis in a retrieving event.  The two of us will be loading Artemis up and heading down to the Working Certificate Test held by the Mountain Valley Retrieving Club near Hamilton.
 
Andrew was out today to run Artemis and Jenni was out with Tucker.  They took turns throwing for each [...]

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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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I have been unable to get out much with the dogs. In the back yard I was able to run a small breaking drill with them. Heeling them on either side of me I threw a bumper out for a retrieve. Each throw I increased the excitement, enthusiasm and motion on the throw. I corrected [...]

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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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You’ll see if you open up my training log that we’ve spent a few training sessions on the no-no drill.  My patients & understanding while running this drill have improved - resulting in greater improvement in my dog’s understanding.  It won’t be long before I’ll be able to take this concept ‘go as sent’ to [...]

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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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 Training at The Farm yesterday was great!  Most of the experienced trainers that I have trained with at The Farm at one time or another were in attendance.  Because of the large number of dogs to be run we did not get too many set ups done as a group but it is sessions like [...]

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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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 Saturday saw Joanne, Jenni and I take the two dogs to Powasson for a CKC hunt test.  Andrew did not join us for this event, he was at a friends’ birthday party.
Artemis was not entered in any of the events but she ran as test dog for the Junior Hunter stake.  She had fun, did [...]

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My fathers 85th birthday was on Saturday but he had an appointment to attend to on Saturday morning.  I took the opportunity to hook up with a group I’d found and trained with in January.  They were more than willing to let me train with them - great group of guys and gals!
This group goes [...]

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