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It’s a long time since I posted anything but I thought I would bring you up to speed on how we are getting on with our training. Pickle has gone from strength to strength and has been super easy to train. I do have be careful that I don’t over train her as more than two sessions a week and...

I know I haven’t been here for some time but it’s been busy in my house over the last year! My daughter has had her first baby and we offered to have her young cockerpoo pup while she settled home with the baby. Because of complications we ended up having him for two weeks. Omg! I totally...

I’m hoping that this link works! It’s so long since I posted anything but I asked a friend to video me the other day and I wanted to share it. Despite a year with very little group training, I’m pleased with my little girl. She’s 20 months and looking like a proper Gundog here! The music is...

Hi reading @Alleeluna post about food reminded me to tell you about a new food that I found My dogs have sensitive stomachs and I very careful about what they have to eat. Normally we start the day with a small amount of Fish for Dogs kibble as one dog is on a fish only diet. They love this...

This week I had to message a trialler about a subject and surprisingly I was offered the chance to have a 121 session with them. I decided that it was too good an opportunity to miss and spent over an hour today with my one year old dog working through various exercises. I’m still reeling at...

Snow bunny suggested that I found some exercises for gun dogs on another thread, but I thought we could all add our suggestions to this thread for general things to keep our dogs busy. I’ll start off with a screen shot of things to do to make your walk more interesting.

Something that I came across the other day in a Facebook post and have not heard the term used before. Do any of you use this in your training? Definition from Wikipedia Description Allelomimetic behavior or allomimetic behavior is a range of activities in which the performance of a behavior...

We sat watching tv last night with all the dogs, they all went out for a last pee before bed but then Pickle was most unhappy. We have the two older dogs sleeping in the utility room but Pickle sleeps by herself in the conservatory. Our house is on the top of a hill and it was truly wild here...

You lot know that I’m joking but I have to tell you that the thought crosses my mind at least once a day at the moment. There are lots of good things about her - she sleeps well being the main one, but when she’s awake OMG she’s fast and she’s trouble.

I haven’t been on the forum much as I’m finding managing three dogs with very different exercise needs very time consuming. Whilst at home the puppy needs watching almost every minute of the day that she’s not in her pen as she’s been super inventive thinking up trouble to get in to. But...

WARNING This might upset you if you have struggled with this problem but I have a confession to make. 😜 I have NEVER had problems with puppy biting. In fact, I was not aware that lab puppies were known for being horrors for this, and had never heard the terms until I joined TLF, despite...

I know that many of you are strong proponents of harnesses but I was listening to a podcast this morning in the car that made me ponder on whether harnesses are less punishing than collars. Just to make this clear I’m not starting an argument and I use a harness myself on my puppies and young...

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...

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...

I thought that I would write about Bing and the efforts we have made with him and water I case it was useful to anyone else. Bing tried to walk on a neighbors swimming pool bubble cover as a young dog while I was visiting their garden. One moment he was with me and playing with their pointer...

I have been trying to get Diesel fit and well since about May of last year when one of the trainers pointed out to me that he was not moving well at all. It appeared that the adrenaline of retrieving was masking some serious underlying problems. He had stopped jumping into the car and the vet...

Sorry but I just have to vent about this! I live on a quiet edge of a small town and am surrounded by countryside and footpaths and bridle paths. They are not walked much and a usually only see one or two people on a hour morning walk. The quietness of the area has been noted by a local...

Mr P and I went for a walk this morning on a new heathland common. . It’s 100s of acres of heather and forestry and the dogs were really excited, running around and sniffing. We were discussing that it’s a year since Diesel last bolted and that I still don’t totally trust him. He used to bolt...