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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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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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 rather than train I went to Tiny Marsh to help erect the poles that will be used to house the Pheasant Pen - giving back a little for the use of the property.About 8:20 the bugs, mosquitoes and black flys came out so we called it a night. Greg Larden asked if I [...]

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Tonight I needed to catch up on some chores around the house and I felt that a day off for the dogs to just be dogs was in order.  While I was puttering up in the garage I heard a loud crash of a water entry in the front yard.  I went to investigate and [...]

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This past weekend we attended the Long Point Retriever Training Club’s Field Trial. Myself, Jo, Jenni, Andrew and both dogs camped out for two nights and I ran Tucker in the Qual Stake and Artemis in the Junior Stake. The judges in both stakes were Lee Woodhouse (aka Lips) enjoying his first stint in the [...]

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I recruited Jenni tonight to throw for me - we ran both dogs at the Black’s pond.Artemis was first and we ran some of the de-cheating singles that she had run a couple days ago. I increased the distance to the water from the line and this increased the difficulty of the drill. She did [...]

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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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Today I recruited my son Andrew to gun for me and we headed to the ‘Black’ pond for some de-cheating work.Artemis once again showed that she had made progress and also that she understands the channel blind concept. There was more collar pressure used in this drill than she has previously encountered. She responded well [...]

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I had a commitment to honour in Niagara today so I made arrangements to train on my way down. For the first time I was able to get out with Chris Bayles and his wife Pat - they run Artemis’s home kennel . Also training were Mark Comtois (owns a litter mate) and Skip Snow. I met [...]

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