Search results

He's lovely. Poor lamb. One day at a time!

I had a similar problem with Poppy. I actually can't play with her outside with a tennis ball as it sends her straight back to square one when she was rewarded with a ball when she was with the police. With a dummy she initially would not hold one at all so we started by offering it to her and...

I have to say it's all pretty simple stuff, but we are working on completely changing the habits of a dog through 180 degrees. She's like a different dog these days. She's gone from very much completely wild and full on to still full of boundless energy when needed but calm and polite...

I see that Poppy and I have been "at it" for just under 3 months. It's been great fun with bouts of deep depression thrown in for good measure. :facepalm: The challenge is to convert a 2 year old detection dog (failed - lack of concentration) into a passable gundog. Complete opposites in...

My old girl, Lady's, brother is on Librela and it's worked well, but recently he's needed a bit extra so he's now also on gabapentin. I think as they get older they just need more relief. The downside with stuff like gabapentin and tramadol is the poor old dog gets a bit dopey. I think it's a...

I really like reading about what you are doing with Toffee. It's very relevant to my situation with Poppy that I haven't really started to address yet - in our case it's sheep, cattle and horses. But concerning the quote above I do hope you don't think it's all plain sailing with Pops. At...

I've got to say the training pays off. This morning I took my eye off the ball when walking with some dog walking friends and the dreaded cry came "Look out she's crossed the river!". On the other side is a field of pregnant sheep. They were about two or three hundred yards away so not really...

It's a bit soon for an update but training today went much better than last weel so I thought I'd post about it. I've concentrated on getting Poppy to hold and carry a dummy on lead since the last "away with the fairies" session. If she's done that correctly I've tried a single basic retrieve...

I must add that I'm learning a lot myself going through this process. Our trainer is really good and I'm learning as much if not more (a lot more) than Poppy. Judy also works hard on stopping me getting too despondent when it's all going south! Little things spring out during the process that...

Lots of small steps needed! This is working out to be a big challenge. Poppy is 2 years old and has been trained to have all the wrong behaviours, pretty much, for a working gundog. She's been a free agent with no boundaries and where her huge drive has been encouraged to get her to go...

Charged all our standby battery packs. Filled up the car. Fingers crossed on power etc. Poppy went bats in the wind this morning.

Second dog about 8 months after our old girl died. It helped me move on - sounds daft but there was a huge sense of loss when we had to put Lady to sleep.

Today was one of those days to just write off as not going to work. It happens and I just don't push it. I call a halt and just walk or play with Poppy. The last couple of times out Poppy has completed a retrieve on each occasion delivering to the hand, much to my surprise. So I had in mind...

Thanks. The real cold light of day reality, though, is we have a lot of work to do yet. I mean a lot. :hungover:

I find if I write it all down it makes it easier to remember the things that need more work. At the moment it's a long list. We did make a bit of progress this morning, however. She's had no idea what to do with a dummy other than if she does pick it up to run around with it and then try and...

It was the last outing of the season today so by prior arrangement I didn't shoot, but took Poppy beating instead - woohoo! :giggl: She is pretty much completely untrained of course so I fully expected it to be hard going and on the lead all the time. Actually it proved a relatively...

Yes second hand but lovely, although I think she tends to put on too much eye-liner some mornings! She's got a huge amount to learn but in terms of a second hand dog she at least is lucky to not have any of the cruelty/neglect issues of a lot of little rescue dogs. I'm feeling much more...

We've already had a couple of one-to-ones with the trainer, but today we entered Puppy Class!! Two other black lab girls - one aged around 1 year and the other around 15 months. They had already had several puppy sessions. The two other dogs were very petite compared to Poppy (about half her...

Good luck with the training. I hope it works out well. Please will you feedback how it goes and what you were doing. I'd be most interested having got similar problems with the Poppy Puppy.

So sorry. A big loss.