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08/20/2024

Shimmering Way Down Yonder

“Yani”

Welcome to the team ❤️

07/29/2024

Ribbon win’n, wild bird get’n

07/25/2024

New shiny toy at the kennel! Ruth is not sure what she thinks about our new dog wash but one thing is true, she enjoyed the attention.

Dogs can now be picked up fresh and clean for an additional charge 💃🏼🕺🏼💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻

07/25/2024

Ruth running her water series to earn her official FC!

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07/23/2024

Francis ❤️

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07/18/2024

FC Oahe The Roof Is On Fire
“Ruth”

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07/17/2024

Sometimes a dog’s drive needs somewhere to go. Maybe they have a hard mouth on birds or yap while they’re hunting. Maybe they reach a little too far on their quartering and flush birds out of range. Reading where that energy wants to go can help you manage it. For example, Franny gets so excited to hunt, she barks when I cast her off. This is less than ideal in a field trial setting. I’ve learned if I don’t look at her, almost pretend she’s not there, and cast her off with the most subtle body language possible, she doesn’t bark.

Pictured is Franny at cast off. I’m looking into the distance and putting my arm out just enough to let her know which direction I’d like her to go.

Figuring out how a dog ticks and troubleshooting how to work with their individuality is why I love this job. Train the dog in front of you.

Photo by Ian Forrester

07/12/2024

Do you call/whistle your dog back on a retrieve or stay quiet to let them make the decision to come back?

Photo by Ian Forrester

06/27/2024

“When game is flushed, a dog should be steady to flush or command, and, if game is shot should retrieve at command only, but not until the Judge has instructed the handler. Dogs should retrieve quickly and briskly when ordered to do so and deliver tenderly to hand. They should then sit or “hup” until given further orders.”

- Standard Procedure For Spaniel Field Trials

Pictured is Q performing all of the above flawlessly throughout 3 series in the CESSC Spaniel Field Trial Open Stakes.

Photos by Ian Forrester

06/26/2024

A few girlies ready for some trialing!

In Canadian Kennel Club field trials, cockers and springers are ran against each other in the same stakes; so both Q and Ruth were accompanying me in the gallery waiting for their turn 💃🏼💃🏼

Photo by Ian Forrester

06/16/2024

Rock River’s Jackpine Brandy You’re A Fine Girl “Francis” with a third place in the Limit Stake

PrairieRose’s Questing QT “Q” with a second place in the Limit Stake

Q finished both Opens here at the CESSC Field Trial and Francis ran her first All-age trials and got all the way through the second series of the Open on day 2!! Very proud of both of these girls and happy to see so much progress with Franny.

06/15/2024

PrairieRose’s Questing QT “Q” with a second place in the Limit Stake at the CESSC Field Trial. She also finished the Open today! Good girl Q!

06/13/2024

Ready to work!

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06/03/2024

Little miss dependable!

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06/02/2024

Great day for the PFK girlies!

FC Oahe The Roof Is On Fire “Ruth” with a Master Hunter pass

PrairieRose’s Questing QT “Q” with a Master Hunter pass

Rock River’s Jackpine Brandy You’re A Fine Girl “Francis” with a Senior Hunter pass

Good girls!

05/30/2024

I love to see a dog who runs back to me with a bird as hard as they run out for it. Q wants me to have the bumper as much as she wants to go get it. Love that drive!

05/25/2024

It’s not all flushers here at PFK! I also work with and own pointing dogs. Oslo is here getting tuned up for the 2024 hunting season.

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05/23/2024

Love what you do and you’ll want to work every day towards being the best you can be at it ❤️

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05/17/2024

My training philosophy aims to maintain engagement and focus on the handler as much as possible. Tito has been a team player since day one!

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05/16/2024

August. 10 months old. Very connected, very biddable. Drive out of control. Coming to a fall trial near you.

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05/15/2024

Thanks Keeper!

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05/11/2024

FC AFC JoJo’s Easy Keeper “Keeper” with a third place in the NDSSC Springer Open. My first springer Open placement!! Keeper and I really got in a groove today and I had so much fun handling “America’s Dog” in a very competitive, 60 dog Open stake. What a way to end the spring trial season. Good boy Keeper!

Owned by Bill Brockett

05/07/2024

I am blessed to run spaniels across such a beautiful country. The Missouri Headwaters ESS Club Field Trial was held on the most beautiful grounds! An incredibly organized trial where I got to run dogs alongside some of my favorite people under a couple of incredible judges. A trial I will be eager to attend every year!

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05/07/2024

What’s more fun than some puppy bird intro?? 💃🏼🕺🏼

Kolsch is here for some confidence building and foundation gun dog training and he’s doing great!

05/02/2024

It’s hard to keep Ruth in control in open cover like this. She runs huge - but keeps a really nice figure 8 pattern adjusted to the wind. Put her in thick cover and her cocker truly comes out. The organized pattern dissolves and she works with thorough intention; hitting objectives she knows will set her up to find birds rather than coursing back and forth hoping she comes across one. She learned that from hunting wild pheasants this fall! She knows where the birds will be.

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04/29/2024

That’s some proper cocker cover!

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04/27/2024

FC Oahe The Roof Is On Fire “Ruth”

My first field championed dog.

Ruth won the NDSSC Cocker Field Trial today. She got to run her water series after so she is officially FCed! A little short of two years old, my first handler-owned and trained dog, I am just so incredibly proud of this dog. We earned her FC at our local club’s trial; the first field trial I ever went to as a spectator. I am over the moon.

Thank you to the judges, gunners, and club for putting on a great trial! The third series was in perfect cocker cover which made Ruth shine. Good girl Woofers!!

04/13/2024

One does not simply own a cocker without wearing it.

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2139 12th Street NW
Turtle Lake, ND
58575

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