Gundog Training Forum

Might be worth getting them to check their house contents insurance too as sometimes that covers third party claims against dogs.

If I'm doing the boiled chicken and rice thing I give him the water that the chicken was boiled in (once it's cool) - he'll drink that even when he's reluctant to drink plain water.

I'd refrained from commenting so far since I'm fairly new to gundogs (I've got two springers - one is three years old, other one is two - and they're my first dogs since the family golden retrievers of my childhood). Anyway, if, when I got springer number one, I'd seen that video and thought it was ...

The bit that seems to be missing from your calculations is that a prescription from your vet isn't going to come for free... Unless I've misunderstood things prescriptions last for a maximum of six months (sure Vicky can put me right here), so that's at least two per year for the advocate, plus the ...

WGD you (just) beat me to it lol

jeffD wrote:...if I needed a dog to feed me and my family it would be my big old springer Drake.

more meat on him than a cocker?

greenish gunk doesn't sound normal, and since eye problems are something that you don't mess around with I'd be phoning the vet

I thought obedience just meant that if you tell a dog to do something (known command, at distraction levels that the dog has been trained up to) it does it, promptly, no ignoring or "I'll just finish sniffing this first" or other dicking about...

Might be a daft suggestion, and it's not Aberdeenshire but what about the exiled Polmaise? (Would love to see videos of this one if he were still on here )

I'd be interested in this in the future - Merlin and I aren't of a standard to do a novice working test yet so live days are definitely a no go for a while... Depending how advanced any training days were they might be an option though?