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Yesterday when Cassie and I were out in the woods 2 rather amazing things happened. Firstly my friends dog appeared out of nowhere seemingly unaccompanied by his people. Cass has been rather dotty about him since they acquired him a year ago, but lately there have been signs of her not getting...

I am working on stop whistle before next months gundog training and would really appreciate some help on building up the distance! I know some of you use the target stick and/place mat to send the dog away to and would like to learn to do this with Cassie. I can stop her when she's walking away...

Cassie has had the most lovely few days over Christmas and been a real delight to us all. Not to worry though, the wild child within is still alive and well and she's been full of spirit as usual :) If asked I think her top four highlights would be (and this in no particular order) :) 1. The...

Cassie's scent hunting was becoming to frequent for comfort and resulting in lost recall :( recently, so I have been working hard to try to prevent this, with some success. We've been going up into the woods and working just up and down the 2 main track ways that form the entrance, and where...

Cass has never been a great chewer, but has had a hard bed all this time, she did chew it a little bit at around 7-8 months, but I've known for ages it was high time she had a nicer one, after a few weeks of looking here and there I finally decided on this one from Danish Designs, (thanks...

This is by way of a reflection of our afternoon "walk", just to see how I could improve or do differently on today's happenings ! There's always something! Since our recent gundog training lesson, I've finally ditched the idea of going for a walk on daily basis, but now see them as training...

Out this morning with Cassie doing some training in a nearby field, during a spell of free play I heard a donkey braying nearby, just as I was thinking who round here has acquired a donkey then, and Cass won't have heard this before, when I saw that she'd stopped in her tracks and was fully...

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good biothane lead? The ones I've found seem to be really long or wider than I expected, and a bit more pricey than I thought they would be. I need to work on the challenge of preventing Cassie disappearing into thick cover to hunt rabbits :):) There's...

My loose lead walking definitely in need of improvement, so when the chap who ran the agility class put on this workshop I jumped at the chance to go on it, it was 3 hours long! Cass bore up really well, and it wasn't until the very last few minutes that she succumbed to a brain fried headburst...

At last I think Cassie and I have cracked the game of playing tug by getting a rabbit skin chaser toy! It's amazing so easy to carry and use and she's really motivated by it … I don't want to speak to soon but it even got her attention in the High Risk Hare Zone field this morning :) I not...

Just now, while sitting here having a mid morning catch up on MLF a little bird, a coal tit in fact, flew into my living room through the open door on this lovely September morning, got itself fluttering about against the window as they do. (For those that are stuperstitious, , yes I know the...

Having finally taken the plunge and joined AD Training Academy, I have been working really hard with Cassie lately out in the big wide world, to really good effect :) so far. I'm finding that she is definitely staying closer to me, and focusing on me more, and her off lead heel is getting...

I've decided to train Cassie to accept a muzzle and have bought the Baskerville one, and I'm not sure now if that's a good one or not. Which ones do other people use? I don't really like the thought of doing it, but we are approaching apple season and it's so difficult to prevent her finding...

Sometime ago I began to realise that I was having trouble with Cassie in our "home" woods where all of a sudden there seemed to be a multitude of distractions meaning her recall, which had always been good slipped a bit. Such as the dreaded orange poo, high density of deer hanging out in some...

Having come close to giving up because Cassie just didn't seem interested in retrieving dummies I decided I still want to persevere with gundog training, because I want to share the outdoors with her and because she has such a powerful hunting drive that feel frustrated with myself for not...

I have been doing this with Cassie in recent months, we started at training class with both a hand signal and verbal cue when our dogs are running towards us, and also I have followed totallygundogs method of teaching it when she is by my side at heel and sits as I stop. She seems to have the...

We are just back from our morning walk (although to be frank everything is a training session!) and we had a really sweet moment when Cassie hopped up on to a little stump that I sometimes but not very often use for boundary/agility games. So I gave her lots of fuss and a reward, chuckled at her...

Or to put it another way, how far we have come in 2 years.:) Back in 2016, Cassie was 10-12 weeks old for her first Wimbledon, a total crocopup with needle sharp teeth which I struggled to cope with but eventually found a way having found a certain Forum and it's wonderful community. The biting...

What better time to review my training with Cassie than the start of this brand new forum! I've been following Tom and Lauren's Gamechanger video's and finding them great, as so often the case just one or two things jump out at me to point the way forward. The thing this time is to play without...