Fundog Gundog

13/07/2025

Retriever class!

13/07/2025

Adolescent pupsters were working a lot today with Premack Theory, ie "do the thing you don't find rewarding, to get access to the thing you DO find rewarding". And a good opportunity to access and sniff a new environment, and hunt out food, is super rewarding! So we used the woodland to work on heels, stays, paws up, hand targets and hunting. Great job everyone!

13/07/2025

Early morning retriever class, working on steadiness with distractions with the bolting rabbit, distance memory retrieves and introducing cold game for those who wanted it. Fab job all around!

12/07/2025

12/07/2025

Despite being early, it was warming up for the Adolescent class, so we went to the shade of the field and worked on activities with less movement - shaping sleepy, the mousey game, heel and stop whistle. Well done everyone, it was a tough one today!

12/07/2025

Oak, Toby and Margot in an early morning puppy class today, working on their heel position, placeboard and Its Your Choice! Great job pupstars!

11/07/2025

Toffee is a little spaced after her x rays this morning.

Thank you to for great customer care (both human and canine).

Send good vibes for my pocket rocket please 🙏💕

11/07/2025

Lovely to see Figgy this morning for a refresher on recall skills. Just love how she's blossomed with her new family 😍🥰

08/07/2025

Ruby, Disco, Phoebe, Arlo and Peggy started their Level 1 gundog class last night, off to a great start with a settling in activity. We looked at routines for work, rest and relax, placeboard patterns, hand touch, and recall whistle. Well done everyone!

06/07/2025

Quick practice with my dogs to finish. It's a bad time of year to practice hunting, dry ground, not much scent and one million grass seeds. So, a bit of rusty retrieve practice.

-steadiness to shot and fall
-honour the other dog
-pick up tricky dummy
-handling from distance
-proofing / maintaining release cue

Both have got a bit sloppy with their hold, so that's this week's homework, what are you going to be working on?

06/07/2025

Then marvellous Maple came for some work on her hand delivery and showed off her excellent go round progress, just since Thursday! 💪👌👏👏👏

06/07/2025

Early session with the lovely River; today was all about connection and hunting together. Super job from both dog and handler 👌