Re: Dummies?? Helen, as you can see in the video clip I have only just started to move Murffi's retrieving from my back garden into the field....
Re: Dummies?? Nothing distracts Christie and Burbet. They have seen too many spaniels dashing past and sometimes through their legs. :P...
Re: Dummies?? Helen, here is another little clip of Murffi retrieving this afternoon. This time it is a with some distractions ;D in my field. It...
Re: Positive Punishment, again sorry Ok, I have got my gundog trainer's hat on this morning. ;) When my dogs are carrying a retrieve I will not...
Re: Views please! Gun Dog Session - and my introduction to negative reinforcement Yes, Kate, withholding a food reward is negative punishment....
Re: Views please! Gun Dog Session - and my introduction to negative reinforcement Barbara, negative punishment is taking something away as a...
Re: Views please! Gun Dog Session - and my introduction to negative reinforcement There are situations in which I will and have used positive...
Re: Hello Hello and welcome! :D Barbara, you don't mean my calm, sensible, chilled out spanners, do you??!! ;D :P ;)
Re: Well that went well, or She ran home with the dummy! Did you buy that pheasant skin, David? I have seen them, thinking how expensive they are.
Re: Anyone been on a training 'holiday'? Barbara, I think you will really enjoy it. Coshy and Steve are great fun and you will learn loads. Say...
Re: What do you wish you had known For a couple of years I was an area coordinator for a springer spaniel rescue and one of my jobs was to find...
Re: More progress with Rachael Interesting article, Pippa. I wish I had kept a similar training log when clicker training the retrieve with...
Re: Anyone been on a training 'holiday'? You will be amazed how much progress a young dog can make over just one weekend of intensive training....
Re: Anyone been on a training 'holiday'? Steve and Coshy Kimberley of Kimberley Gundogs in Winkleigh Devon offer training weekends for all breeds...
Re: Anyone been on a training 'holiday'? I have been on a couple of training holidays, Barbara. I also help my friends who are gundog trainers...
Re: Labrador wins the gundog group at Crufts Having been to Crufts for the first time on Saturday and having watched the action from a ringside...
Re: Labrador wins the gundog group at Crufts The labrador was definitely too chubby for my taste but on the plus side he was one of the few dogs...
Re: Busy Weekend Helen, it was mind boggling what you can buy for dogs. :D
Re: Busy Weekend Thank you. :D
On Saturday I went to Crufts for the first time. My friend had entered a couple of classes in the game keeper's ring and it was lovely seeing her...
