My Duck Dog Training A to ?

Yesterday I attended the Lake Ontario HRC event running Artemis in Seasoned and Tucker in Finished. Event was great, good tests, good people, good eats!Artemis passed her event and has accumulated enough points to earn the Hunting Retriever (HR) in front of her name. She was in great form on the water but in the [...]

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We attended the Kingston Area HRC test last weekend. I had registered Tucker to run in the Finished Stake and had thought that Artemis was only along for the ride. I discussed it with Jo and we felt that one of the reasons we brought another dog into our home was to increase the amount [...]

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 Our plans for our two dogs started out simple.

1) Get pet dog, allow the entire family to have some fun playing dog games with him.
2) Encourage our kids to play along with us
3) Run some hunt tests get some success
4) Have my daughter take an active interest in training / handling
5) Run some more tests [...]

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Saturday and Sunday was our annual Georgian Bay Hunting Retriever Club hunt.  All of my family was in attendance - Joanne, Jenni, Andrew and I.
Jenni ran Tucker in the ‘Seasoned’ stakes and Joanne ran Artemis in the ‘Started’ Stakes.  Andrew came along and socialized and played his gameboy.  I was working to assist the club [...]

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On Saturday and Sunday my 13yo daughter ran our two dogs in the OVHRC hunting tests.  Artemis (10months) was run in Started and Tucker (2yo) ran in Seasoned
In Started the water and land marks were quite short. We have been training on considerably longer marks in considerably heavier cover with Artemis.  She did have a [...]

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This Saturday Tucker ran his first HRC Seasoned hunt test put on by the Kingston & Area Hunting Retriever Club. First class event!
It wasn’t pretty, but we managed to get his first Seasoned pass.
Tucker hadn’t seen any water work since last fall in training. So, to suggest that he was a little [...]

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