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[manorfarm]

Have been lent one of Ian Openshaw videos by a friend I saw how he trained some dogs to drop a dummy and pickit back up again.

I think I saw him demo this at the gamefair as well.

Has anyone tried this. Not sure its a massive requirement for a working do but I like to keep my dogs thinking and learning new things.

Any thoughts ?

[Polmaise]

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[David]

The reason for training this isn't to do with dropping the dummy when retrieving!

[SpringerNI]

It can be a very useful thing to teach a dog for the odd time that the dog is returning with a dead bird and another bird is shot that's a runner. You need the dog to drop the dead bird and redirect it out for the runner.

[David]

I still don't think that's why Ian taught/teaches a dog to spit

[Naj]

Some advise teaching a 'spit' in case a trial dog pegs something.

Naj

[Hepe]

I still don't think that's why Ian taught/teaches a dog to spit

Is it if they are pegging? 've never done anything like it with my retrievers..

Helene

[Polmaise]

Some advise teaching a 'spit' in case a trial dog pegs something.

Naj

[David]

My understanding is that a bird that is caught by a flushing dog is one less over the guns. Trial dogs have to return any caught game.

[Hepe]

The reason for training this isn't to do with dropping the dummy when retrieving!

So what is it about then? *confused*