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@Selina27 Well I might have been a bit sneaky... No, I haven’t said anything about her. I was offered the chance of a puppy before the litter was born, but I had very specific requirements which I didn’t think would be met. Luckily there was a little black girl for me and I still wasn’t...

I tried to do a video of my dogs doing the leap frog games that we play. It all went wrong and my camera work is dreadful but it’s still worth watching to see the distraction they were having to work against. Bingley was very unsure about the distraction 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can tell you what worked for me. I sat the two dogs up one behind each other and called one dog to me. He then sat in front of me and I gave a treat to the dog that wasn’t called and hadn’t moved before I gave the dog right in front of me. So not coming to me was rewarded before the one I that...

@Selina27 I will work towards my grade 3 but I’m not in any hurry to do it as other things have recently got in the way of my training. I need to work on my stop whistle for the blind retrieve before I can have a go at grade 3. I did the water morning in East Sussex with a trainer who has 8...

I was taking Diesel to hydrotherapy and so asked them if they could help me. He was put into a life jacket for his first swim but we found that it put him off more than helped. They carried him into the deeper water and allowed him to swim out of the pool but several sessions were having him...

Here I am putting all that advice into effect. Please excuse that rather silly voice.

I have been struggling with this as well as Bingley doesn’t swim and retrieve. I got to the point where I was wondering if we should have a go at the spaniel grade 3 instead as they have an obstacle rather than a swim retrieve! Like you my lab doesn’t swim after a fright in water as a puppy...

You more than passed @Selina27 ! I understand that everyone yesterday got a distinction! Brilliantly well done!!

Thank you so much @snowbunny for reminding us to try with this and @Emily_Babbelhund for setting up a competition. I though it might be a nice idea for people to say what techniques have worked well so that we have a pool of expertise. I’m not going to be able to do a nail a day but my...

I was ironing and listening to a podcast by Hannah Branagan talking to Aussa Jakobsson about taking the best photographs of dogs. There are some good suggestions for lighting and composition. There is also a brilliant idea for making the phone or camera click make an indicator of a reward or...

Oh goodness Kate! What an ordeal! So glad that you had a happy ending, you just need to have a few quiet days now.

Otter looks absolutely lovely and a great thinker. In the short clip you posted she does look a little overwhelmed as if she doesn’t know what and where to look, but it’s impossible to tell from such little snippet. She certainly is thinking and taking it all in, far better to have such...

Also wouldn’t be without this Halford shade for the front window! Use it most days and have one in both cars. Has lasted 3 years in one car.

Sorry writing at great speed - top of the doors 😂

I also have cheap solutions as well. I love the black shade covers from Halfords for the back windows. When they are on it is not possible to see whether the window is up or down and I often leave them down for more air. I have also found that it is possible to drive at speed with the back...

Hi are you thinking of the silver knitted material shade cover? Be cool solutions sell them - 70% reflective. They are expensive and I thought about them for about 2 years before I finally bought one but I wouldn’t be without it now for the hot days. I put it over my car and trap it with the...

We took our two year old grandson out for the day with the dogs yesterday to the river at Richmond for a picnic. The video shows him walking Bingley across Richmond green, although we are in a empty bit when I videoed, on a bank holiday Saturday, there was a cricket match going on, people...