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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The past two weeks I’ve been able to get out with the dogs on a few occasions. I’ve been remiss in not entering a blog note because…well…since they are not a regular occurrence I find it difficult to get back in the habit.Two weekends ago Jo and I had the dogs out and trained a [...]

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This morning before I came in to work, I ran both the dogs on a Wagon Wheel Drill.
Tucker was first -
In the past I have used a wagon wheel set up (bumpers surrounding a central line) in three capacities. First to teach Tucker to come in to a heel position quickly and straight, secondly [...]

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I brought Tucker in with me to work today. He waited patiently for me to finish early in the afternoon. We went for a run together on the Parry Sound hiking trail. We got lots of passing complements by other dog owners as we ran by in perfect heel position.
Once we returned home it was [...]

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Tonight I arrived home at dusk and was able to get out with both dogs…to the front yard. It was wagon wheel night at the Gill home.Artemis went first. I heeled her to the middle of the yard and put her in a sit. As she watched, I threw a couple of white bumpers at [...]

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 Today I managed to slip away and run Artemis on the swim-by pond again.  We have not been training for the past two days - life and shorter day light hours are getting in the way.
13 bumpers at the back pile - NO bumpers at the side piles.
Today went GREAT, better than I could have [...]

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Tonight I had a good training crew - Andrew, Jenni, myself and the two pups.  We went to a rural ball diamond in Whitestone, about 20 minutes up the road.
Tucker was first out of the truck.  I set up a long single past a short gun.  We ran it three times the last two I [...]

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 Jenni & I trained the two dogs at the local soccer field in Parry Sound today.
Artemis was run on singles, about 100 yards in length.  We had four stickman gunners on the field and I walked from one station to the next while Artemis was returning with the bumper.  The throws were once again angle [...]

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 Tonight while I was making dinner, Jenni ran Artemis through a 3 handed casting drill.  I stole a couple of peeks at them through the window…both girls are learning together.
Following dinner, Tucker and I ran a 16 bumper wagon wheel.  Tucker is still showing avoidance near the end of the drill.  We’ll continue to work [...]

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