My Duck Dog Training A to ?

This morning before school I had Andrew run some marks with Artemis while I gunned.  Two issues emerged.  1)he forgot to take te lead off of her twice in four marks - I reminded him before she was sent.  2)The commands on the line to get Artemis lined up were not used - we went [...]

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Last night I slipped down to tiny marsh and The Farm to do some training. Although it was raining we managed to get in some good work.At Tiny Marsh I ran Artemis on two channel blinds. The first was a short 50yd swim run off of a point to the end of a bay. The [...]

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One of the most enjoyable training sessions this month was with Greg Larden and his chocolate lab Suzy - out at Tiny Marsh.We were preparing our dogs to run at the Kingston Area HRC event. Suzy has developed a habit of making noise while watching the marks come out on water. Tucker has shown a [...]

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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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The water temperature is still a little cold but the air temp was 23 today.  I’ve been taking it slow with Artemis due to her cut pad recovery.  But, it is looking very good.  When she was allowed off leash today first place she headed was the water.
So, with Andrew gunning for me, we ran [...]

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Tonight was a cluster f**k!  Things were going along so well and then I had a brain fart.
Placed 8 bumpers at the back pile to start day 2 of the swim-by with Artemis.  I placed her in a remote position and tossed a bumper to the pile - gave her a verbal back right cast [...]

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On my way to Niagara this past Friday I stopped with the dogs to do a little training at The Farm.  Anna, Eden and Martin Pinder were there training.  The front field is set up as a pattern field - has been since I first trained there over a year ago.
Tucker was first, he had [...]

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Tonight we got out to train LATE.  Both dogs are running in the HRC test this weekend.  Jenni is handling Tucker in Seasoned both Saturday and Sunday.  Joanne will be handling Artemis as a ‘test dog’ in Started.  Joanne has handled Tucker in a test but never Artemis.  Tonight I wanted to have Joanne run [...]

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Saturday was too busy a day to get out with the dogs but I was able to get out on Sunday (today).
Next weekend is the GBHRC test weekend. In preparation for hosting this event, as a member of the club I headed to Tiny Marsh to inventory our equipment. Following these preparations, [...]

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 Tonight at dusk, Jenni and I managed to get out with both dogs to do some water work in our front yard.
Artemis was first and she was run on 2 singles with a 20 yard entry and a total length of about 60 yards.  The cover at the shoreline was thick and the line took [...]

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