Hilary Burbidge Dog Training

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.

30/10/2024

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

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 👏🏻🥰🐾

18/10/2024

Super training classes yesterday in the Autumn sunshine. Everyone worked very hard, wonderful to see all the dogs progress. General Ability Class worked on: refining heel work and positioning, focus with distractions, retrieving and delivery with memories and steadiness around other working dogs. The Group Puppy Class worked on foundation training, focus, recall, heel work, sit at heel, good manners and baby play retrieves to encourage trust and partnership. Everyone did brilliantly 🐾👏🏻❤️

16/10/2024

Lovely Riverlily training class with Harriet at St.Ippolyts lunchtime today. Steadiness and heel work off lead, memories, blinds, straight marks and learning to run through the line of dogs to retrieve. Very pleased with Ripley’s progress - she LOVES it! 👏🏻🐾🥰🖤

08/10/2024

Beautiful rainbow over Mote End Farm this morning after torrential rain forced Jenny and Cleo, me, Ripley and Matlock to take cover in the hay barn with a river of rain water gushing past our feet! Great training session despite all the water... the dogs LOVED it 😂

07/10/2024

Training Matlock and Ripley in the glorious October sunshine ... what a joy!

25/09/2024

Another excellent Riverlily Working Dogs Water Workshop this morning. Ripley absolutely LOVES water training, we both had great fun, working on smartening up her delivery to hand and increasing distance from the waters edge, memory’s, blinds, steadiness off lead and heel work keeping her focus in SUCH an exciting environment. Very pleased with her progress, she’s a gorgeous, enthusiastic, willing, keen and brave little soul. ❤️🐾🥰

16/09/2024

Introduction to Gundog Training Workshop - such a happy training session in the sunshine on Saturday 👏🏻 lovely to meet such a great group of dogs and owners, despite some nerves about how their dog might be in a training environment, everyone did absolutely brilliantly!

The workshop covered Steadiness, Heelwork, Obedience, Impulse Control - the stop, Retrieving - for beginners, Delivery, Directions - demo and discussions on working in the field and hunting instincts. Well done everyone!

Benny, Dolly, Bowie, Daisy, Herb and Freckle all thoroughly enjoyed the focus and fun. Can’t wait to run the next workshop. Big thank you to Jackie and Mark Purnell for their wonderful training grounds.

05/09/2024

Happy days … ❤️🐾

04/09/2024

Super water workshop for Ripley this morning with Abbie and the Riverlily Working Dogs team… learning to pick up on the water, across the water and beside the water and deliver to hand … very pleased with Ripley’s progress. She is part Otter of course! Thank you to Mick and Kevin for the expert dummy tossing 🥰👏🏻🐾💦

29/08/2024

Mooching about the hedgerows in the late afternoon sun after a spot of training in the corn crop around the fields on the hill our house sits. All we can hear is the wind in the leaves and birdsong - it doesn’t look much, but SO wonderful to have the space and nature, literally on our doorstep 🥰 happy days

21/08/2024

Lovely Riverlily day training Ripley today … water workshop in the morning - very proud of her progress learning to deliver to hand from the water, which she finds super exciting! Then a class in the afternoon - very proud of her heel work, steadiness, stop and delivery. Thank you for all your great teaching and support Abbie 👏🏻🐾🥰