My Duck Dog Training A to ?

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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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 [...]

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This afternoon Jenni and I took both dogs my canoe over to a portion of the cattle grazing field.We ran Artemis on a Blind Drill in another fresh location. First identifying the pile then running the blind - putting the gunner out - running the blind - throwing the mark - collecting the mark. No [...]

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Tonight Andrew and & I took the two dogs by canoe across the river to train in a cattle pasture field. A corner of this field is where both Artemis and Tucker we schooled in their double T drill - I rarely use this portion of the field.Andrew walked out into the field and placed [...]

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Last night Jenni and I took both dogs to the field at the end of the road. We haven’t done much in this field since mid summer.Artemis was first. Jenni placed the blind stake out in the field at about 120 yards from the line. I heeled Artemis to the line and we watched as [...]

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Yesterday after I picked Jenni up after her band practice, the two of us took both dogs out for some exercise. We headed to the closest field we had in order to get in the session before dark - the soccer field.
We ran both dogs at the same time - Jenni handling Tucker and [...]

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 Yesterday evening my son Andrew took Tucker for a walk beside his bike - both really enjoyed their ‘walk’.  While they were out and about, I grabbed Artemis and the training bag and headed out to the field at the end of the road.  Andrew and Tucker joined us there.
We ran a drill that I [...]

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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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Tonight just before dusk I recruited Andrew to come out and throw some marks for the dogs.  Finally!! Some marks!
 We went to a local field were the cover was medium and there was a right to left roll/slope to the hill. Artemis was first and we ran her on 4 walking singles from 60 yards out [...]

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 Friday night I got out with both dogs and a new friend Kyle with his Chessie Sage.  Sage is a young hunting dog and Kyle has had some problems with her breaking in the heat of the moment.
We set up a breaking drill with her using duck calls, gun fire and closely thrown marks.   She, [...]

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