One Man & his Gundogs

One Man & his Gundogs I help you to train your pet Gundog in the basics required of a family pet & a shooting companion
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These are going to be cracking pups! The 2024 IGL winner and Rob’s stylish and award-winning bitch - it doesn’t get any ...
22/04/2025

These are going to be cracking pups! The 2024 IGL winner and Rob’s stylish and award-winning bitch - it doesn’t get any better!

16/04/2025

Rudolph’s cousins helping with V’s distraction training!

09/04/2025

1st birthday, 1st true blind.

Happy 1st birthday to me!!! 🎂🎉And all my sisters sang to me too!! ❤️
01/04/2025

Happy 1st birthday to me!!! 🎂🎉

And all my sisters sang to me too!! ❤️

23/03/2025

K9 bloopers - take 2!

21/03/2025

Choo - pushing the envelope.

21/03/2025

Veeka - proofing the ladder drill in a different environment.

19/03/2025

When things don’t go to plan. Here I am doing my usual - pushing 11 month old V too far both in distance and in time between retrieves, causing her to lose confidence. My fault entirely. We’ll shorten things up and work back up to this in a few weeks. The video captions explain what happened.

15/03/2025

Tag team retrieving! V’s first time working alongside and watching her sisters! Fun times … 🥰

12/03/2025

I can still remember the huge sense of pride the moment when my children first rode a bike without help or stabilisers. Today I experienced a feeling very close to that - sending V for her first “true” blind after working up to this point over the last few months on marked (or seen) retrieves, memory retrieves and memory blind retrieves. Today she went straight into a blind retrieve - not the most difficult, I admit. But it was without the doggy equivalent of stabiliser wheels! 😂 And she was so pleased with herself.

07/03/2025

The holy grail (for me, anyway) of being able to redirect a dog 90° left or right at distance without them coming forward as well!
Choo does well here and takes a nice 90° cast, but her default is normally to come forward, which means I routinely have to compensate by sending her “deep” before redirecting.
This ground was relatively easy with no “bunkers” to throw her off course, ideal when you’re trying to drill a dog into a particular response.
We’ll see how she goes on more difficult ground next!

05/03/2025

In case anyone’s interested, this is Veeka stepping up to the next level with our ladder drills.

I’ve found over the years that this exercise, more than any other retrieving drill, helps build confidence & trust, promotes straight line running and is the building block for teaching “blind” retrieving whereby the dog takes a line on trust alone, not knowing where or what the target is and keeps going until either it finds or you stop the dog and redirect.

V is doing ok and, whilst I would expect to be doing more advanced drills if she were a Labrador, she’s doing well for an HPR - at least that’s what I think.

My latest project ……Small enough to fit in a bread roll 😅😅
28/02/2025

My latest project ……

Small enough to fit in a bread roll 😅😅

26/02/2025

Haven’t shown Choo for some time. I’ve been concentrating on the GWP monster! Here’s Choo getting back into training - with a rather large drone watching on ….. 😅

19/02/2025

Well, we were bound to bump into deer at some point - and today was the day, albeit 80 yards away! I had been warned that Veeka’s natural instincts to chase deer would overcome any steadiness training we had done on game birds. But, even when some of the deer bolted, she remained steady - but very, very interested!!!

They say it’s a common behaviour with HPRs (but GWPs in particular): the need to be on top of others!Tilly is so forgivi...
16/02/2025

They say it’s a common behaviour with HPRs (but GWPs in particular): the need to be on top of others!
Tilly is so forgiving.

15/02/2025

Veeka’s ladder drill at 10 months - the next steps. As my comrades used to tell me: “always a little further”.

To misquote King Henry II, I know Choo is thinking “Will no one rid me of this turbulent teenager? She’s a pain in the b...
13/02/2025

To misquote King Henry II, I know Choo is thinking “Will no one rid me of this turbulent teenager? She’s a pain in the butt.”

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