Recent content by JES72

Thanks. That sounds like a fun game. He’s not that great at retrieving. He will drop the ball on the way back distracted by scent and smells. I wonder if switching to gun dog training may help him a bit so he can get to run a bit more than he does with scent work.

I’m definitely going to get some tight toys for him. And yes, I think he’s going to need more lead time. Will also book in some training sessions.

Thank you, it’s hard when your adolescent dog looks like as adult to other people but still has puppy brain. I have found a trainer local to us so she knows the types of distractions there are and how most dogs are off lead on the common and towpath. I’ll keep you posted on our progress. I’ve...

Thanks, I need to look up Snowbunnys thread

A bit of a long post. Stanley is going well but recently in the warmer weather we’ve had two incidents with public in open spaces. Stanley's recall has been generally quite good on his normal walks and we practice coming away from other dogs or coming back if he’s stopped to sniff and I’ve...

He’s 15 months. He’s such a friendly creature and wants to get involved in everything. He is also a big scent trailer which is great for Mantrailing but not so great when on a normal lead walk.

I’m reading Jilly Cooper’s The Common Years which is her diary she wrote when living in Putney and walking her dogs on the common which is exactly where I walked Homer and now Stanley. She wrote it 50 years ago yet so much is still so much the same including all the different types of characters...

I feel I have let myself and Stanley down. I promised self when we got Stanley that he would not pull on the lead and I’ll train him to walk to heal and on a loose lead and not have my shoulder pulled out but I have failed both him and me. Feeling a bit bad that I have an unruly dog despite all...

I think it might be the latches on the crate as I’m sure Homer escaped from it a few times but not as quickly as Stanley.

I feel like we're in the middle of the Winnie the Pooh story when it rained and rained and rained...

Stanley has learnt a new trick!!!! He can open his crate in less time than it takes me to get from shutting him in to getting out the front door. Literally 10 seconds. three times in a row so it was definitely shut properly. We are going to have to get some caribinar clips to keep the ctate...

So handsome, my how he’s grown!

That’s brilliant 🤩

I am so sorry. I felt so privileged to have had the opportunity to meet him. He was such a lovely loving dog full of personality and warmed so many hearts. Thinking of you all.

Hope it is nothing more than a hot spot and heals quickly.