What do you think Arlo’s favourite gundog word is? 🤣🙈
I’m in the middle of reinforcing what ‘go back’ means for Arlo ready for his trials this summer. ‘Go back’ for us is generally used when a marked retrieve has landed or its a blind retrieve and hand signals are used alongside the marker word. We do have many other marker words for gundog work (which I will demonstrate properly in later reels) such as ‘get on’ which is our word for hunting/sweeping and ‘get in/over’ which we use for hunting under cover or hunting over a fence.
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Taking my gundog, Arlo outside of the field
Memory retrieves and obedience in a car park!
I’m working on more independent retrieves and hunting with Arlo. Bee takes over on the field and Arlo’s taken advantage of it and hasn’t learned to hunt alone and retrieve independently.
Doing retrieves and obedience with Arlo in areas other than a field helps improve Arlo’s confidence in himself and engagement with his obedience
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Hunting and Building Drive for Gundogs
Sessions & Classes Available - Details below!
1-1 Private Gundog sessions are available. £50 per session.
Classes: - £25 per session, 8 week course!
• Introduction
• Gundog Obedience
• Retrieves
• Directionals
• Hunting & Building Drive
⭐️We accept all breeds & personalities!
⭐️ Reactive dogs welcome - I specialise in resource guarding dogs to allow them to share and get into shoots!
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Today we worked on building Arlo’s hunting drive so he learns to hunt more independently and doesn’t chose to check in with me during the hunt. We want Arlo to keep his nose down and stay focused unless recalled or he’s found game/the dummy.
We also looked on reining in Jasper & Bee’s drive. Both these two springers get over stimulated very quickly during a hunt and can easily lose track of what they’re searching for, so I was doing short and sweet hunting sessions. I will be looking into doing more scent work with both of them to teach them to slow down and use their nose not their head.
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Small but effective training sessions!
When doing sessions with your dog, it’s important to keep them short and fun to keep the dogs interested and motivated!
I was in Jolley’s today with Eden desensitising her to bags, noises and people and I decided to run a emergancy down while walking away. This is a command that Eden knows and I’m reinforcing the command in different environments.
I was in Jolley’s for 10 minutes getting her food and treats and that’s all she needed. Desensitising her to people was done by walking round the shop, desensitising her to bags was done by carrying the food bags around the shop and I made noises by dropping toys and items on the floor (on purpose). All these things were simple and small but extremely effective in Eden’s training. We ended our session with the emergancy downstay.
The emergancy down is a very important lifeskill I’ve taught Eden for when I’m out with my daughter and something happens I can pop Eden in a down and I know she won’t move until I tell her to - it’s something I’ve always wanted to teach my dogs and it’s a skill I recommend most owners implementing into their dogs training!
The way she looked at me at the end of the video when she saw it was me behind her 🥺❤️
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Proofing Obedience - Eden 🥳
I’ve been working on proofing Eden’s down stays and sit stays recently, she’s getting so good at learning when to break her down/sit stay and only to break when I say 🥰
This helps our training because in future sessions I can put Eden in a down stay and she won’t break her position if people within the classes are also saying ‘break’
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Focusing around distractions - Willow 💗
Last week we had willow back for a session. We worked on learning to focus around distractions, building that engagement as soon as she sees a dog and shaping new lead behaviour in preparation for our next sessions 🥰
Eden came along to this session, remained in a downstay! Super proud dog mum moment! 🐶❤️
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Eden’s Obedience 💗
Eden’s recently been working on moving from a focused heel, to a down/sit stay and then back into a focused heel. She’s getting incredibly good at recognising the different commands while doing a different task! She’s not very confident moving from a sit/down stay back into a focused heel yet as we’ve been working with a different release command, however I don’t want to give her a release commend and her break her focus. I want her to stay focused but switch command 🥰
Focusing very nicely around other dogs 😍
Obedience training is something I’m extremely passionate about and it’s why a all my own dogs show heavy obedience training 🏆
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Neutrality and confidence in different environments - Eden 💜
Today with Eden I worked on building confidence and neutrality to playground equipment, she absolutely loved it 🥰 she’s starting to sky rocket with confidence in herself!
Next we will be working on building neutrality in town centres, train stations & bus stations 🥰
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Socialising Sundays - Eden 💜
Today I’m doing more environmental work with Eden, getting her confident with her obedience outside with distractions. I’m also working on her confidence climbing on and off things now she’s bigger! 💜
Great way of training your dog on a chill Sunday! 😇
Watch Eden grow and transform into a spectacular girly 🥰
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Loose Leash - Harley 💛
I went to go and see Harley a few weeks ago regarding loose leash walking and getting over stimulated in busy environments. Before entering into busier environments, we needed to shape our loose leash walking and build a firm foundation with engagement.
The first video I took was Harley in his local park on our first session. The second video is one that his mum has sent me a couple of weeks afterwards showing his engagement!
Harley is absolutely smashing his training! Well done Harley 💛🐶
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Down Stay • Sit Stay • 🐶
Reinforcing emergancy down stays with Arlo with distractions and myself giving commands to the others. Jasper in a sit stay (did you see his non-stop wiggly tail 🙈) and Eden practising her sit stays.
With Eden I’m slowly increasing distance and distractions, she’s amazing for 4 months old however 🥰
It’s important to help build these commands into your everyday walks as it’s a useful skill for your dog to know. It also helps build relationship and engagement between you and your dog 🐶❤️
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Obedience with a puppy 🐶
4 month old Eden learning some obedience. Recently a lot of our obedience has been quick paced and fast movements but today we worked on sit stays and down stays, so she not only learns to be quick with her obedience but she learns how to stay in positions when required 🐶❤️
As you can see in the video, both my boys have cracked the down stay and I included them in this session as a distraction for Eden.
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