Gundog Training Forum

My dogs love my daughter, but one day she was sunbathing in the garden and had sunglasses on, those that look different colours depending on what angle you look at them. I went out into the garden with the dogs and one of them took one look at her, kept her distance and started barking at her! My da...

Brilliant! Well done!

I suppose they did test for under-active thyroid? I had a dog a few years ago that got very lethargic, almost had to drag him out of the house to go for a walk. They found he had an under-active thyroid. Put him on tablets for the rest of his life and he was so much better.

My two are 7 and 9 years old and i am still training them new things!

I had to resort to using treats to get one of my dogs to retrieve to hand. I first taught her the hold and give commands by gently placing the dummy in her mouth, removing my hand from the dummy, then taking hold of it again and saying give, then gave her the treat after she had released the dummy. ...

A few years ago my Lab would return the retrieve perfectly to hand IF he had a training lead on, I didn't have to even hold it! Once off the training lead he would not return the retrieve to hand, would dance around. I think a dog knows when he is on a training lead, so i don't use them, preferring...

Wow! What scenery! So jealous!

My two cockers get Nature Diet Lamb and Rice wetfood and Skinners Salmon & Rice for breakfast and then Nature diet and Skinners Duck & Rice for dinner. Sometimes I get Natural Instinct Turkey or Chicken and they have that in place of the Nature Diet. They love both and and are both fit and h...

I live on the south tip of the Isle of Wight and we had snow drifts up to the top of the hedges last monday! Really do not want any more!