Gundog Training Forum

You know the dog will retrieve so leave the dummies alone. spend the time with general heel work steadiness etc. then when you do introduce dummies again use them for steadiness and don't let the dog pick. if the dog remains give it one straight mark or direction retrieve.

Its how you train and what you train for. I would expect my dogs to take left right and back by hand alone, also stop if on the recall.

In my opinion a break barrel is more comfortable (particularly the side by side), whether cradled,crooked!

Don't they say hup in the army as in hup 2 3 4?

A bit like "Training or reading the dog in front of you" then!

if you kept cattle you wouldn't be wanting to ban it! :-D Naj Electric fence does the job for all the cattle I've met, the mains one anyway, coos aren't as stupid as they look! (at least dairy cattle anyway, can't speak for beef animals...) Not much fun when you pee on one in the dark :o , electric...

Nothing worse than barbed wire! I've seen so many cut dogs from that bloody stuff, should be banned. I think there are rules about how close you can put it to public footpaths which seems sensible, as long as people follow them. It used to be in England BW could be adjacent to the awarded width of ...

It might be an idea to ask the buyer to source the details.

"the dogs never done that before" how many times have we heard it. but then there the other side of the coin when you can see its going to happen but can do nothing about it.