perryperryperry wrote: It's the same training, regardless of breed ...
Is it?
yeah, I reckon the puppy stuff pretty much is between a lurcher and a spanner, they've still gotta find the game and retrieve the game in their working life, only one's meantta catch it and one's not!
Well after Steven was sent off to The Hunting life, not a word has been received I suspect. Reading though much of it for the better, much is different in training a lurcher some of it is similar. When I packed in running dogs almost exactly 15 yrs back I had a lot to learn about real gundog work, trust me when I say you don't train a spaniel like a HPR, a retriever like a spaniel unless you want a real muddle of a dog. The guy came to a gundog forum for advice on retrieving, not a bad plan - reading through the thread it failed!
