I'm going to post this training video even though it went slightly wrong! Not everything goes to plan and its usually your fault not the dogs. So two white dummies out at a 45 degree angle. They have been down for 10 to 15 minutes. I am going to send for first placed dummy first (which is the hardest). I am looking for him to "lock on" to the dummy before I send him. I don't want him looking up at me or at the 2nd dummy and I prefer him to stand not sit. I mess the second send up by the whistle dropping out of my mouth and Matti taking it as a cue! No big fuss made (although I needed a slap 😂) I just set him up to go again. Very pleased with how its going as he's only 6 months. He does other "free retrieving" but this is how we start locking on and sending on straight lines to a particular retrieve.
Matti's stay with me doing a circle round him.
A little video of where Matti is on his heelwork. Things are getting a bit more ordered now he's older. The training collar and handle now fit 😂. I start off with the handle just sitting on one of my fingers. I'm not holding him there and vary the speed of my walk. Ultimately I will drop the handle and then remove it but the idea is that he never learns to pull!! Turning into him so he doesn't get ahead of me on the turns and out of position. Probably not a conventional gundog way of training but I come from a place of a mix of obedience, working trials and gundog and this works for me.
Getting used to different objects! Not that anything bothers him he just tries to retrieve them which is just what I want. Added bonus of RAF training flights overhead.
Ruby and Joe's litter in Yorkshire. There are a few boys available. ettinsmoor.co.uk/current-stud-litters
A short video of Juno a pup sired by my lighter yellow dog Ross (Ettinsmoor Final Edition) and mum is lighter yellow too. See how dark he is (the dark dog in the video obviously not the lighter one)!
This lovely Ettinsmoor Mister Ed sired litter have been moved into there bigger pen today. What a cracking litter of pups and I can already see Ed style heads developing. I'll be popping down to see them when they are a bit bigger. See here https://www.ettinsmoor.co.uk/current-stud-litters
Ettinsmoor Mister Ed sired litter ettinsmoor.co.uk/stud-litters
A large Ettinsmoor Kangaroo Joe sired litter. A couple of these little soldiers are looking for a place to lay their backpack 😊. Ettinsmoor.co.uk/stud-litters
Ettinsmoor Kangaroo Joe sired litter born a few days ago.Not my puppies. ettinsmoor.co.uk/stud-litters
A son of Ettinsmoor Mister Ed who has been out starting his picking up career this season. (Plus his mum Alice has just visited Ed for a second litter https://www.ettinsmoor.co.uk/stud-litters ). He has also had his hips and elbows scored and they have come back as hips 1:1, elbows 0:0.
This is what his owner said about him:
We so love our boy and he is well admired 🥰. This was yesterday on beaters day he has done 3 1/2 days “work experience” picking up this year and has retrieved pheasants and ducks 🤗.
An Ettinsmoor Kangaroo Joe stud litter!
Joe sired pups.
Ettinsmoor Kangaroo Joe sired pups enjoying some new toys. (All sold)
Ettinsmoor Final Edition(Ross) had a sperm evaluation carried out today and was found to have 98% good morphology, motility and density. All ready to mate bitches in 2022.
