Hilary Burbidge Dog Training

06/02/2025

Dog training is an iterative process ... practice, patience, persistance, repitition, consistancy ... and buckets of good humour!

11/01/2025

With Riverlily Working Dogs – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉

11/01/2025

Stunningly beautiful morning at Mote End Farm, Group Puppy Class in Winter Wonderland - very cold but stunning! Two of our class of four this morning, NSDTR Zazie and Flat coated Retriever Plum… excellent progress all; focus, heel, recall, and learning to give a puppy dummy to hand 👏🏻❤️🐾

03/01/2025

Beautiful frosty and sunny morning, training at Rickney’s nr. Bengeo with Abbie and Harriet and the Riverlily team. Great fun, Ripley thoroughly enjoyed Abbie’s training challenges, long run out memories, blinds, hunting and retrieving through hedges and grass cover and out of sight over ditches. 👏🏻🥰🐾 very pleased with her progress… some super fast deliveries to hand, homework work on; steadiness, heel work and not fidgeting 😜

10/12/2024

Matlock, Ripley and I wish you all and your lovely dogs and families a very Happy Christmas and New Year

Thank you to all my clients and dogs for working so hard at training in 2024

You're a joy to work with and to watch your teamwork and bond grow as you progress. Well done on the training practice, keep it up!

Lots more fun, informative, practical gundog training and special events planned in 2025 - get in touch with Hilary to book.

* Puppy - Foundation Training: Saturday 09:45-10:45 and Thursday 14:00-15:00 - Mote End Farm, Totteridge

* NEW CLASS, Tuesdays 13:00-14:00 - Dogs Exclusive, Buckinghamshire

* Novice: Thursday 10:00-11:00 - Mote End Farm, Totteridge

* Novice Plus: (previously General Ability): Thursday 12:00-13:30 - Mote End Farm, Totteridge

* Sheep Proofing Workshop

* Horse Desensitisation Workshop

* Run Rabbit Run! Workshop

* Special Guest Trainers: Spaniel - Beginner Gundog Workshop, with Nick Ridley,

Riverlily Working Dogs, with Abbie Reid and team

All training starts back on Saturday 4th January

All classes and training events listed at hbdogtraining.com

Look forward to seeing you in January

10/12/2024

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year - https://mailchi.mp/26577ce4f748/wishing-you-a-very-happy-christmas-and-new-year

14/11/2024

Lovely Group Puppy Class at Mote End Farm this afternoon. All the dogs did brilliantly, learning good manners, sitting calmly and doing nothing in particular, walking to heel on a loose lead, recall, sit/stay and now building distance, baby retrieving game and focus on their handlers and not each other … top job one and all 👏🏻🐾🥰

14/11/2024

So very proud of Ellie with her sweet girl Lucky, practicing foundation exercises for her support dog assessment on Monday.

Lucky was nervous of waking to heel and close to Ellie’s wheelchair and recalling back to the footplate, sit/stays with Ellie at a distance, being calm and steady in shops and other busy public places. With patience and encouragement this is a snap shot of how far they’ve come together 👏🏻

All going well Lucky will be accepted to attend a 6wk residential training programme, to learn how to help Ellie in the house and out and about.

14/11/2024

Spot of pre clients classes training - yesterday cold game Pheasant and today rabbit fur dummies. Good girl Ripley and good boy Matlock 👏🏻🐾🥰

13/11/2024

Cold game training session with Harriet today - second time Ripley’s experienced picking up a real bird, she found it VERY exciting! Ran about with a partridge in a sock like a lunatic, throughly enjoyed herself 🤣 Then we got a bit more focused on actually holding a hen pheasant in her mouth and bringing it towards my hand. Lots to practice with birds and taking it back to basics with her. Love her zest for life and sheer enthusiasm 👏🏻🐾

12/11/2024

Training in the glorious Autumn sunshine this afternoon. Bit windy on the cross country hill at Mote End Farm. Matlock and Ripley had a great time. Memories and hunting blinds, very good dogs 👏🏻🐾🥰

06/11/2024

Ripley absolutely LOVED the Riverlily Working Dogs class with Harriet this afternoon, memories, steadiness and heel work off lead, scenting and sweeping up with all the dogs. Super happy with her recall and focus finding and retrieving to hand with all the dogs working off lead… with an audience of nosey cows looking on. Great fun.

25/10/2024

Ripley’s beautiful mummy, Kite 😍 beautiful and talented girl inside and out. Jenny King, thank you for trusting me with one of her daughters, Ripley is an absolute joy to train and loves it!

Kite joined us for a day out picking up and she loved it❤️🎉
Steady off lead for three drives even when Uncle Sherman was sent for a runner from her side during the drive 🎉
She also got the hang of hunting the cover herself and was rewarded with two great finds in the maize🎉👍
Thanks so much Jenny for letting me take her ❤️

24/10/2024

Loving these stunning Autumn sunsets 🌅

24/10/2024

Great General Ability Group and Puppy Classes today at Mote End Farm. All the dogs did brilliantly, so proud of everyone’s progress. The blue sky and amazing Autumn sunshine helped of course! Top job everyone 👏🏻🐾❤️🥰

24/10/2024

Very happy training session this morning with Tina and young Working Cocker Spaniel Arlo and renown pet sitters Nick and Julie at the Turville Estate. Glorious sunshine and breath taking views across the early morning dewy fields and estate forest. Working on correct heel positioning, recall, steadiness and focus with distractions. Then lots of fun with Matlock and Ripley in the woods and playing the ‘stop’ game.

23/10/2024

Another great Riverlily Working Dogs training session with Harriet in the beautiful Autumn sunshine this afternoon. Glorious colours reflected on the river. Ripley had great fun retrieving blinds, memory’s and marks along the riverbank and up the hills. Can’t knock her enthusiasm, SO pleased with her progress, she’s a joy to train and loves her job so much! Very proud 👏🏻🥰🐾