Keeping cool on this mornings walk …
Very meaty beef rib treat … think they all enjoyed it 😆
Time out …. The positive kind of course 💜
Working hard to get scent of this little dummy among the mud and wild garlic and other smells here
We need to work on marking … 😊
Me and Juno enjoyed a simulated picking up day yesterday run by Nick Ridley and Fran Ardley at Tarncrag Gundogs in Cumbria … great learning opportunity for both me and Juno … who even decided lying down was a good idea while nothing exciting was going on for her so already getting confident in this new group training scenario …. she did great in a sweeping exercise hunting and picking dummies … did great at her first retrieve from a launcher onto the bank got her second one but a lost dummy not the one I was trying to handle her onto … still she got the retrieve … she did well given we have done no such previous training … paid attention and sat steady to shot and to other strange dogs doing their thing … off lead pretty much the whole day so very pleased with her steadiness need to practise sending out on a line to build her confidence and motivation to keep going for the retrieve not stopping for a little hunt en route as when we moved into the woods she started to hunt not take direction straight away but that is a distance training thing we need to practise in different environments as she will do this well in her familiar training places! Great day we loved it! 🧡
Cocker Sprint … 1st Juno, 2nd Boo maybe a tie with Wren 3rd Yogi 4th Scout 5th Sky bringing up the rear think she let the youngsters win 🥰
A rain free mud free run at one of their fave places … Scout disturbed a Roe Deer but recalled once I called her … keeping them in sight - though she was a bit further away so must have got on the scent trail before I saw a flash of white as it turned and ran … deer are masters of silent observation - means I can remind them of our No Chasing rule if something pops up to surprise them on walks.
Sky doing a little retrieve … bless her still loving it