Good day's training
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:08 pm
This post doesn't offer much other than to highlight that even short outings are worthwhile. For a variety of reasons I've not been out with the dogs much recently - one day's picking up, one morning shooting over my springer, nothing with my cocker bitch and nothing with my cocker pup but I made it out today for an hour and couldn't fault any of the wee blighters!
Cocker and springer did directional dummy work really well, especially my cocker who is often too stubborn to handle at distance, both finishing with super long memories marked without veering an inch off line. But it was the wee pup who stole the show - if I could've videod him you'd have thought I'd put hours into him but i've hardly touched him - in and out of fairly nasty cover hunting for bits of cheese and patterning lovely and close and turning instinctively helping me to establish the turn whistle.
It's got me thinking - I spent hardly any time on my springer and he ran decent in novice trials this year, is undertraining the new way forward? It might be for me!!
Cocker and springer did directional dummy work really well, especially my cocker who is often too stubborn to handle at distance, both finishing with super long memories marked without veering an inch off line. But it was the wee pup who stole the show - if I could've videod him you'd have thought I'd put hours into him but i've hardly touched him - in and out of fairly nasty cover hunting for bits of cheese and patterning lovely and close and turning instinctively helping me to establish the turn whistle.
It's got me thinking - I spent hardly any time on my springer and he ran decent in novice trials this year, is undertraining the new way forward? It might be for me!!
