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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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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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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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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This past weekend I was able to help out the Niagara Peninsula Retriever Training Club in hosting their annual Field Trial. I gunned in the Open and Qualifying Stake and was able to watch god portions of the Amateur and Junior stakes too.While there, watching from the gallery I was able to see some of [...]

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On the weekend of April 25th, 26th I had the pleasure of attending a Field Trial rules and judging clinic put on by the Ontario Retriever Association (ORA). The master of ceremonies was Jim Ling and the two presenters were Dennis Voigt and Richard Dresser - All three of these men have been in the [...]

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During Artemis’s recovery Tucker and I have snuck out a few times to train.Two no-no drills and two wagon wheel casting drills were completed along with two sets of 5 cold blinds.
We did manage to get out to run some marks on Thursday last. A couple by the name of Ted & Cynthia Gadawski were kind [...]

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Artemis has been resting to help recuperate her cut pad. The day of the accident I immediately headed back to the truck and drove to a near by pharmacy. There I purchased some saline solution to clean the wound and some crazy glue to knit it back together and hopefully stem the flow of blood. [...]

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