My Duck Dog Training A to ?

WOW, what a difference a day makes!Yesterday afternoon, after work, I asked (ok, told) my kids Jenni and Andrew to come outside and gun for me while I ran the dogs.
Tucker took his turn first. While getting ready I collected the ecollar and controller from the charging stand. Tucker, having been corrected a few nights [...]

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The temperature has dropped again (-26) last night with an expected high of -17 today.  I was hoping to bring both my dogs with me on a visit to Niagara but due to the cold, it is not to be.
The past few weeks I have had a periodic difficulty keeping Tucker from wondering the neighbourhood [...]

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Last night was our final formal Obedience class of the year. Unfortunately, I was able to only bring one dog along and since Tucker has a OB Trial in 3 weeks, Artemis had to stay home.
Tucker did well on all of the skills necessary for earning his CDX next month. Unfortunately the trainer [...]

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The weather has been below zero all week and the 4 inches of snow has been added to with a dusting each evening.  Dog field training has ground to a halt.  My bird boys are not home from school until after the sun has set so I need to begin to risk using the wingers [...]

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The weather the past 4 days has been atroshis- rain rain rain.  Also, the sun is setting just after 5pm now and that leaves precious little time to train the dogs.  I have been working with then each for a few minutes in the evenings.  Tucker on his formal obedience long jump and Artemis on [...]

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Yesterday evening Jo and I took both dogs to the weekly obedience class. Jo handled Tucker and I, Artemis.Tucker did some very nice down on recalls for Joanne and he also did a 3 minute sit stay followed by a 3 minute down stay. He performed very well with Joanne at the helm.
Artemis was really [...]

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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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Yesterday evening my son Andrew joined Artemis & I in the Pattern Blind field. Andrew planted three bumpers at the left hand blind pile. Then he moved to a spot about 30 yards to the right of the line to the pile and waited there wearing his white jacket.I brought Artemis to the line and [...]

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Yesterday night Jo and I and the two dogs attended our weekly Obedience class.  Jo handled Artemis and I handled Tucker.
 
Tucker did very well, most of the night he was off lead.  I had him sit close to other dogs and investigate them without dominating or even sniffing too much.  He is definitely improving in [...]

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 Monday, I took Tucker out with me to do some duck/goose scouting and to ‘jump shoot’ the pond that Greg and I found ducks on this past weekend.  No ducks this time, but Tucker and I found a great spot, a night roost I think, just down river a bit.  We’ll have to get some [...]

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