deefer+tag wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:43 pm
Not all the top trialing handlers train their own dogs, so you're looking at 2 different things here. The top trainers, then the top handlers. Now some will overlap but not all.
You will find that a lot of people will give various variations on this!
I don't get this, if you train a dog to such a standard why not run it yourself ?
Also I would have thought that a dog would work better for whoever trained it, obviously not. I don't get it ??
some folks dont have the ground/game to finish a dog ready for a trial, others do - so people school dogs, and then the top men get them over the line.
i'll put my neck out and say its not hard to train a dog to trial, but you just have to have a good dog to start with.
scot-ish wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:30 am
i'll put my neck out and say its not hard to train a dog to trial, but you just have to have a good dog to start with.
Well, yes and no. I've seen good dogmen get mediocre dogs into the silverware. The common denominator in consistent performance, is always the acceptance, recognition and understanding of the partnership... Oh yes, and game. Did I ever mention that birds train bird dogs?
scot-ish wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:30 am
i'll put my neck out and say its not hard to train a dog to trial, but you just have to have a good dog to start with.
Oh yes, and game. Did I ever mention that birds train bird dogs?
Er....once or twice
Muddling along in the hope that one day it starts to make sense.
Yes, they run rabbit trials for Spaniel's. I'd rather shoot rabbits over Spaniel's than pheasants if I've got good rabbity ground. Some of our top spaniel triallers base most of their gun training on rabbits.
Yep, lots of dogs made up on rabbits alone - less common over here though. The new strain of RVHD is going to be tough for many, I was talking to a trialler with a pen recently who told me that each rabbit in his pen cost him about 50 quid in vaccines and parasite treatment!
