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I'm a bit at a loss on this one. Having crowed about her being on a short gundog training advertising video, the sweet lamb did a runner yesterday afternoon. It could have gone horribly wrong. In short, on the way back from our afternoon walk I let her go for a swim in the river. When she...

Our trainer, Judy, has just posted a promotional video on Facebook but it features the little yellow pocket rocket a lot. She looks much better on the video than real life :giggl: . Thanks to Oscar for making this reel | By Whip Curl Canine Resolve | Facebook

The Pop Dog started to turn her nose up at kibble so I've been having a look at feeding raw. Out trainer, Judy, feeds her dogs (Irish water spaniels) a 70/30 diet and my son feeds his dog pretty much 100% raw with just a few biscuits and a couple of vegetable cubes added. We happen to have a...

Hello everyone. Been banging my head against a hard object for a while so I have missed out on everyone's news. Hope all well. Poppy is 3 1/2 now and is a real constant in our lives maturing into a really lovely dog. Most of the "issues" have evaporated now with only one dog that she hates...

We are on a cruise around the Canaries. We left Southampton on Friday, 4th November and arrived at Cadiz yesterday. We're currently at sea, arriving Tenerife tomorrow. Poppy is staying with our trainer, Judy, for the full 16 days and it's pretty much "Boot Camp" for her. Judy pinged me a photo...

Imagine, if you will, a string of uncut sausages ...... On our walk this morning, the Pop Dog squats to do what a girl has to do, so to speak. Her slave noticed that she appeared to be stuck and dangling from her (how do I put this) nether area was what looked like a string of sausages...

How time flies! Poppy has been part of our lives for well over a year now, and my, how she has come on in that time. She’s just 2 years and 8 months old and has started that transition that also happened in Lady, going from a juvenile to an adult. In Lady it happened quite quickly over a two...

2 years ago on 8th October. Still a special girl.

Saw this in today's Times. Poppy dogs! They have been rescued after having been abandoned and are all going to be trained as prison sniffer dogs.

We arrived back from Italy on Sunday having been stuck in the hotel room most of the week with Covid. It left both of us feeling drained and me with a hacking cough and no sense of taste or smell. On Monday I kept getting coughing spasms clearing the disgusting gunk out of my lungs. Poor old...

I left our girl at the kennels this morning. She's in there for a week while we take a holiday at Lake Garda. It's a 70th birthday present for Rosemary delayed 2 years because of Covid. We're staying in Bardolino and we're looking forward to walks around the lake and in the hills. We may...

There have been quite a few developments in the training stakes. It's difficult to know where to post to be honest, because I'm striving to produce a really polite well behaved dog on the one hand and potentially a satisfactory gundog on the other. It all got rather depressing when Poppy...

We've just taken delivery of our winter log supply. We've taken 50% more than usual and we're going to try and avoid turning on the central heating as much as possible in view of the price of gas. With what we already have from last year we should have enough to keep the clean burn stove going...

We were off to a new location in the pouring rain (woohoo!) yesterday. The idea was to try again to introduce Poppy to a small group and see how she got on with other dogs to watch and interact with. The location was a lovely house and grounds in the depths of Sussex. One of those places...

Training in the stubbles this morning I completely failed to spot my farmer friends daughter on her pony coming down the footpath until she was right on us. The Pop Dog goes deaf and starts to bounce around the pony and I paddle up as quick as possible. This dog will be the death of me. I'm...

This morning the Pop Dog gets the blame again. I'm starting to really think it's me but there is an issue I need to address. Walking with Poppy we met 2 Pointers, a Yorky, a bitsa something or other, and Alsatian and a Jack Russell. All no problem. Then we rounded a corner with Poppy a...

Dog interaction is amazing, isn't it. The Pop Dog can be a nightmare with other Labs and larger young dogs charging around, play boxing and even "play" growling. I put the last play in inverted commas because I'm never very confident on that one. If the other dog has a ball things get really...

Once a month we are away for a couple of nights so first, Lady, and then, Poppy are in a nearby lovely kennels from Saturday to Tuesday afternoon. They loved Lady at the kennels and they all burst into tears when she went. They had looked after her for 11 years and she liked going there as...

I've hit a real setback. Poppy has always been a bit difficult but yesterday was an all time low point and I really don't see it improving anytime soon. I took her out for her afternoon walk as usual and reached the little bridge across the river where I normally let her off the lead having...