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!
⭐️Puppies welcome!
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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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