Recent content by Foxredchester

Thank you all, lots of great ideas. I knew this was the right place to come to. @snowbunny: thank you too - great explanation. I am going to draft a similar type of diagram for keeping my teenager off the XBox! 😀

@Charlie - He’s 16months... and whilst it’s not the be-all, I would like to crack it given the hours I’ve spent working on it but as you say maybe it’s not to be. I have tried trainers and they have demonstrated etc but then once we’re home, it’s all forgotten and back to square 1. 🤷🏼 @Joy &...

You might be right.. but I hate giving in. He’s getting there with the other obedience stuff but we just can’t seem to crack this. Might rub a bit of steak on the left leg of my jeans, see if that helps! 😀

This has probably been done a 1000 times so I apologise in advance, but I couldn’t find any threads directly related to this. Chester has a tendency to move ahead whilst I am asking him to walk at ’Heel’, he’s not actually pulling and the lead is loose’ish and when I stop he eventually...

Thank you again for all the welcomes, very kind. i do have lots of pictures and expect to see many questions from me on the training forums

Thank you all for your kind comments and welcomes. i do think he’s good looking but I am yet to see a Labrador that isn’t

Hi, This is Chester, he’s 16months old. He‘s a fantastic chap, happy and energetic (perhaps too energetic!). He comes from a Working line and as a consequence has a fantastic drive when doing his retrieval work. We’ve been having lessons where it’s been frequently pointed out that I am the...