Place board Training

[emfilb]

What other drills can you do with this technique?
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[Cass]

Everything can be taught from the board - flushing, quartering, steadying... pretty much anything you need to teach. Maybe gundogguy will come on here and explain better than me - he is much more knowledgeable about place training.

[Gundogguy]

Trish Jackson had an American Cocker that earned an FC in American Field trials ~10 yrs ago (Maybe 15 as time does fly) I remember watching that dog run and it may have been a little slower than a Field Bred English Cocker, but was always in control, had a great nose and took direction well.

Absolutely, Trish's Pride dog was fine spaniel to gun for, had the pleasure on 3 occasions.
Also trained a couple his offspring, very nice dogs both had trial potential though owners had other interest within the American Cocker culture.

[crackerd]

Absolutely, Trish's Pride dog was fine spaniel to gun for, had the pleasure on 3 occasions.
Also trained a couple his offspring, very nice dogs both had trial potential though owners had other interest within the American Cocker culture.

Gundogguy, is Ms. Jackson - or anyone with American cockers - still active spaniel FTs? And did I mistakenly refer to Pride as "Madison" or did she make up two FTCh's?

MG

[Gundogguy]

Absolutely, Trish's Pride dog was fine spaniel to gun for, had the pleasure on 3 occasions.
Also trained a couple his offspring, very nice dogs both had trial potential though owners had other interest within the American Cocker culture.

Gundogguy, is Ms. Jackson - or anyone with American cockers - still active spaniel FTs? And did I mistakenly refer to Pride as "Madison" or did she make up two FTCh's?

MG

Trish has not had another dog running at the same level as her Pride dog, though she has had a number of really nice dogs that she has trialed., and tested as well. Her client list would include a large number of conformation based clients and hunter type folks that might have many varied activities that they could enjoy with their dogs rather than specialize and commit to field trialing per say. Trish is a dear friend that we do not get see as often as we would like. and as you can imagine she is a top shelf trainer/ handler. She and her dogs always come to event ready to challenge!

[alpha]

Everything can be taught from the board - flushing, quartering, steadying... pretty much anything you need to teach. Maybe gundogguy will come on here and explain better than me - he is much more knowledgeable about place training.

Having been today I can certainly see how this target or place training can
Help with steadiness stop and direction

BUT can't see how the flush and quartering can be taught on them

[Rascal]

Have a look here for the beginnings of steadiness to flush training Alpha.....

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pas6oIR5bR ... as6oIR5bRE

Rascal

[alpha]

Have a look here for the beginnings of steadiness to flush training Alpha.....

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pas6oIR5bR ... as6oIR5bRE

Rascal

Thank you honey

[welsh]

Further to that, look at about 7:05 on in this video for some discussion of the use of place boards in teaching quartering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfpfh39kKI

I am not really a fan of this approach, but the guy in the video has made up national champions in the US so he's not to be quickly discounted.

[David]

Further to that, look at about 7:05 on in this video for some discussion of the use of place boards in teaching quartering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfpfh39kKI

I am not really a fan of this approach, but the guy in the video has made up national champions in the US so he's not to be quickly discounted.

Very interesting and very different to the UK style of hunting with spaniels. His comments about hunting close made me chuckle, bigger spaces and a lower density of game means the dogs certainly get about compared to mine in the UK. I'm not sure about the running around buckets, the dogs seemed to be just running rather than hunting.

I've also noticed on a number of these place board videos that the e-collar is also still in use. Belt and braces or is the e-collar still part of the training program?