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So sorry.

Finger will be fine thanks although I have lost a little bit of skin a bit like someone did a biopsy without a local. :rofl:

The old gently reverse out of the slip lead trick. :rofl:

Poppy has some ground to make up on our last girl, Lady. For example, Lady excelled herself by pinching a roast chicken from someone's kitchen when I had momentarily taken my eye off the ball!

No no. The last thing I want is to forget. I'll be treasuring, well, some of them anyway. :rofl:

I should, of course, have finished with an acknowledgement that Poppy is an absolute blessing and I feel privileged that she so clearly is happy to share her life with us.

She's a teenager - need I say more? Today we were doing so well and she even recalled half way to investigating the rabbit warren in the water meadow behind the station. It's important that she doesn't investigate the warren because just on the other side of it is a spring that amounts to deep...

..... very followey. She tracks me everywhere. As soon as I move she's up and after me. If I stop she flops at my feet. It can get a bit unnerving.

I really have no idea if she'll be any good as a gundog but I'm giving some basic training a whirl. I'm concentrating on recall and stop at the moment. As far as stop goes it's just it's just giving her one pip on the whistle with a raised hand when I want her to sit. The recall is also a...

Yes could be interesting but I think as time goes by she'll forget all that.

It's going reasonably well, thanks. It's all pretty routine stuff really, but I suppose might be of interest to anyone else with the same situation. Poppy is a lovely dog and she's starting to fit in well and the first real signs of bonding with us are coming out. This mainly means she's...

Just caught up on this. Plato is lovely.

We had Lady with M&S to start with. Very good but the premium became eye watering after her ED operation.

Yes! Black dog in a black field and no moon. Wonderful.

We had Poppy on the long line this morning and no issues of course then we met a dog walking friend with her two spaniels. The dogs all seemed fine so I let Poppy off the lead and all that happened was she played nicely with the elder Spaniel, Banksy, who is 8 years old. This mainly involved...

Yes please. Thank you.

Well I've applied to join the Connect with your Dog group. Need to find out about what on earth you are all talking about! We do have a couple of secure fields nearby for hire. I haven't used them yet but we have been talking about it and we plan to try them out soon with a view to getting...

Good stuff there. Thanks.

I think that may be true because when I put her on a long training line she was obviously well used to one so I'm guessing but she may have always been on a longish lead when training as a detection dog. Did you hand feed her main meals? I've been rewarding at a very high level from her daily...

Yes. Her recall is actually very good except if what I can only describe as a touch of madness descends on her and she goes completely deaf. I've got a long line training lead and I'm going to have to use that for a while so if the recall falls at least I can check her run. I actually forgot...