Brave, training.
A bit of walked up. Mark distraction to a changed angle on a memory and back for the mark!
He was getting a bit tired as big distances for a youngster.
Didn’t need many retrieves in this training session 😊
The Sugar beat is looking good for our training days in it this year!
Lots to play in with some nice hedgerows and hilly parts. Happy days 😃
Day 2 of our weekend training. Following on from yesterday we did a walked up morning and water in the afternoon.
Today showed us that again if we haven’t got our basics, particularly good heelwork we struggled and could easily be out of the competition before we get a retrieve due to poor heelwork. This was highlighted when we turned for a bird behind the line. This emphasised just how important the basics and particularly heelwork are. Also if we have to concentrate so much on our dogs at heel it stops us as handlers marking the retrieve. This means we have no idea where the mark is to help the dog if needed.
If our heelwork is good it gives us as handlers the confidence to concentrate on everything else and not worry about our dogs giving us the ability to mark the retrieve well.
Then once the dog is out working if we need to help our dogs the importance of a good stop whistle and directions is absolutely paramount.
Without these simple basics we cannot help our dogs if we need to.
We also did down the line retrieves on blinds and changing ends of the line. Changing ends of the line on a mark requires us to mark well, good heelwork when walking to the other end of the line and a dog that can remember the area of the retrieve once changed angles well. This is a situation that happens if the dogs up the other end of the line are crossing the line to retrieve infront of the dogs at the other end. If they fail to find then the dogs from the other end will be taken to where they were sent from to potentially “eye wipe” the other dogs that tried and failed. This is why it’s good to practice.
The water retrieve was quite complex in that the dogs had to jump a fence go over the ditch then run open ground to go over a large pond and up a bank to then pick out of another pond and return to hander the same way the dog came from without shaking or dropping the dummy.
Lots of basic elements to train to achieve this retrieve well.
So the clear message and traini
Day 2 of our weekend training. Following on from yesterday we did a walked up morning and water in the afternoon.
Today showed us that again if we haven’t got our basics, particularly good heelwork we struggled and could easily be out of the competition before we get a retrieve due to poor heelwork. This was highlighted when we turned for a bird behind the line. This emphasised just how important the basics and particularly heelwork are. Also if we have to concentrate so much on our dogs at heel it stops us as handlers marking the retrieve. This means we have no idea where the mark is to help the dog if needed.
If our heelwork is good it gives us as handlers the confidence to concentrate on everything else and not worry about our dogs giving us the ability to mark the retrieve well.
Then once the dog is out working if we need to help our dogs the importance of a good stop whistle and directions is absolutely paramount.
Without these simple basics we cannot help our dogs if we need to.
We also did down the line retrieves on blinds and changing ends of the line. Changing ends of the line on a mark requires us to mark well, good heelwork when walking to the other end of the line and a dog that can remember the area of the retrieve once changed angles well. This is a situation that happens if the dogs up the other end of the line are crossing the line to retrieve infront of the dogs at the other end. If they fail to find then the dogs from the other end will be taken to where they were sent from to potentially “eye wipe” the other dogs that tried and failed. This is why it’s good to practice.
The water retrieve was quite complex in that the dogs had to jump a fence go over the ditch then run open ground to go over a large pond and up a bank to then pick out of another pond and return to hander the same way the dog came from without shaking or dropping the dummy.
Lots of basic elements to train to achieve this retrieve well.
So the clear message and traini
Day 2 of our weekend training. Following on from yesterday we did a walked up morning and water in the afternoon.
Today showed us that again if we haven’t got our basics, particularly good heelwork we struggled and could easily be out of the competition before we get a retrieve due to poor heelwork. This was highlighted when we turned for a bird behind the line. This emphasised just how important the basics and particularly heelwork are. Also if we have to concentrate so much on our dogs at heel it stops us as handlers marking the retrieve. This means we have no idea where the mark is to help the dog if needed.
If our heelwork is good it gives us as handlers the confidence to concentrate on everything else and not worry about our dogs giving us the ability to mark the retrieve well.
Then once the dog is out working if we need to help our dogs the importance of a good stop whistle and directions is absolutely paramount.
Without these simple basics we cannot help our dogs if we need to.
We also did down the line retrieves on blinds and changing ends of the line. Changing ends of the line on a mark requires us to mark well, good heelwork when walking to the other end of the line and a dog that can remember the area of the retrieve once changed angles well. This is a situation that happens if the dogs up the other end of the line are crossing the line to retrieve infront of the dogs at the other end. If they fail to find then the dogs from the other end will be taken to where they were sent from to potentially “eye wipe” the other dogs that tried and failed. This is why it’s good to practice.
The water retrieve was quite complex in that the dogs had to jump a fence go over the ditch then run open ground to go over a large pond and up a bank to then pick out of another pond and return to hander the same way the dog came from without shaking or dropping the dummy.
Lots of basic elements to train to achieve this retrieve well.
So the clear message and traini
Day 2 of our weekend training. Following on from yesterday we did a walked up morning and water in the afternoon.
Today showed us that again if we haven’t got our basics, particularly good heelwork we struggled and could easily be out of the competition before we get a retrieve due to poor heelwork. This was highlighted when we turned for a bird behind the line. This emphasised just how important the basics and particularly heelwork are. Also if we have to concentrate so much on our dogs at heel it stops us as handlers marking the retrieve. This means we have no idea where the mark is to help the dog if needed.
If our heelwork is good it gives us as handlers the confidence to concentrate on everything else and not worry about our dogs giving us the ability to mark the retrieve well.
Then once the dog is out working if we need to help our dogs the importance of a good stop whistle and directions is absolutely paramount.
Without these simple basics we cannot help our dogs if we need to.
We also did down the line retrieves on blinds and changing ends of the line. Changing ends of the line on a mark requires us to mark well, good heelwork when walking to the other end of the line and a dog that can remember the area of the retrieve once changed angles well. This is a situation that happens if the dogs up the other end of the line are crossing the line to retrieve infront of the dogs at the other end. If they fail to find then the dogs from the other end will be taken to where they were sent from to potentially “eye wipe” the other dogs that tried and failed. This is why it’s good to practice.
The water retrieve was quite complex in that the dogs had to jump a fence go over the ditch then run open ground to go over a large pond and up a bank to then pick out of another pond and return to hander the same way the dog came from without shaking or dropping the dummy.
Lots of basic elements to train to achieve this retrieve well.
So the clear message and traini
Nice little walked up training with these 3 lovely Flatcoats and their wonderful handlers.
Nice to see quality flatcoats at work.
Well done ladies!
Nice to see the sunshine as well 🌞😃
With todays group we were building their dogs confidence in the exercises. Starting with static work in the morning to a walked up in the afternoon. I’ve always been a huge believer in building the blocks to give a dog confidence in its training and work. Start small and gradually build bigger feeding the confidence 😊😃
The video shows more of the final stage than the beginning and middle part of the process
With todays group we were building their dogs confidence in the exercises. Starting with static work in the morning to a walked up in the afternoon. I’ve always been a huge believer in building the blocks to give a dog confidence in its training and work. Start small and gradually build bigger feeding the confidence 😊😃
The video shows more of the final stage than the beginning and middle part of the process
With todays group we were building their dogs confidence in the exercises. Starting with static work in the morning to a walked up in the afternoon. I’ve always been a huge believer in building the blocks to give a dog confidence in its training and work. Start small and gradually build bigger feeding the confidence 😊😃
The video shows more of the final stage than the beginning and middle part of the process
Over the two days we did set pieces in the morning and walked up in the afternoon. The set pieces were set to challenge the handlers and dogs in a positive learning way to encourage people to learn about what weaknesses their dogs and they had as handlers, so they could learn from this, train through it and to build their overall confidence to either become better handlers or so their dogs have the confidence in time to achieve challenging retrieves. It’s so important as handlers that we understand how to work and train through any problems to get the best out of our dogs.
The walked up was set to simulate as much as possible to create a field trial environment working with the terrain we had. It certainly kept the handlers on their toes and sharpened them up 😃
In all, it was a great two days with wonderful people working their dogs. There were some great laughs and it was great to see all the dogs and handlers progress. Happy days!
We were invited by Alistair to go back home in the south to take two days training for groups. Some of the group members over the two days! 😊
Wren enjoying the next stage of her fun obedience training. She’s such a sweet little puppy 🥰
A little bit of fun with 15 weeks old “Wren” learning her basics 😊
She gets a bit excited over the retrieve which I love and she can’t wait to get it back to dad 🥰
A tough retrieve beautifully executed by Vivien and Rowan. It’s such a pleasure to watch this wonderful Golden Retriever train to this point from a puppy to this stage 😊
“Ares video 2” again retrieving Grouse shot over pointers for his first experience which he does a nice job of retrieving
“Ice” my 15 month old lab on his first ever time on game. He’s never been shot over before of which I was shooting myself apart from this occasion that gave me chance to video this retrieve. He handled the situation really well and was committed to his work, ( while ignoring the Pointer handler controlling his dog).(great pointer work though).
With more experience he will only get better
“Ares” my 18 month old Golden retriever on his first time on game, shooting over pointers on Grouse. I was shooting over him myself most of the time, but on this occasion I followed my dad up and it gave me a chance to video.
I was so pleased with how this young dog held his head and kept to his task, ignoring the pointer handler controlling his dog (great pointer work for this young pointer) and when he puts up another grouse and a small bird out of the area which he watches both away, he keeps to his job in the area and picks nicely, then once he has picked and on his way back he puts up another Grouse which he watches away and delivers the Grouse nicely to hand!
I never touch my whistle on him as he was doing a nice job. Good boy 😊
Part 2 video: This retrieve is a blind in a different place to the Mark they had earlier. This exercise is about control and handling, stopping the dog before he reaches the area of where the Mark was but getting the distance before casting and picking somewhere else while under control as cleanly as possible. They do a nice job of it 👍😊
