Gundog Training Forum

Evening all, I sold a GWP pup to a couple in Bristol not so long ago and they’ve asked if i can recommend anyone down their way for a bit of help. They’re not working it but it sounds like the 7m old is trying it on with their older dog and it appears to be escalating and getting more aggressive. At...

The key for me is lettting your dog work rather than you working the dog. This is what they are bred for. I find if i try direct the quartering too much and ignore what the dogs are telling me just so they hunt a nice pattern, you flush a lot less game! Picking up I'm in the stand far back camp. Usu...

She did thank you! She held on to them til monday evening…the weekend would have been too convenient Ultrasound operator turned out to have given us a VERY conservative estimate of ‘at least 5’ …she had 12!!

Close PRH, day 56 today. Suppose she could go anytime but shes not showing signs that it is going to happen in the next few hours or anything (from what ive read!). She is just doing a decent impression of an uncomfortable furry hippo.

Evening all, My bitch is getting towards whelping but the past few days has been refusing food. Shes hungry as still asking for food but when the bowl is down shes not interested. Shes been on puppy kibble for a couple weeks to up the calories. Sardines in oil mixed in kept her keen for a couple of ...

I would add to your rant with the emphasis on the `stopping' in the way, the path, track Oh man the blocking the path thing winds me up something chronic… also when they can can see me walking with my dogs at heel and putting them on my left and walking on the left side of the path, to allow their ...

Good place for a rant you say… Walking the dogs this aft, before i get to my desired unpopular muddy fields, one section of the route is quite popular with others. I clock this woman and her two largish dogs (some sort of doodle and a lurcher type) coming towards me and shes reeling in the extendies...

She needs to learn that you are dictating the walk and not her so hiding and changing direction like naj says all feeds into her realising that you are choosing what happens and she has to follow you rather than the opposite, which is what most untrained dogs think is happening on a walk- ‘oh look i...

I also ‘walk’ mine. Theres no shooting for a large part of the year and when you have fully trained dogs all that is needed is a bit of light reinforcement of commands and behaviours that you use in season. The dogs will work themselves naturally in whatever setting you’re in from my experience. Goi...

Me too mate! Family near disowned me when I told them I was moving to the dark side