Freighter’s First Attempt At A Senior Test
We weren’t sure what to expect for Freighter’s first test, but we wanted to see where he was in his training before our hunt test season wrapped up for the year. The first series was a walk-up to a...
View ArticleTraining Steady
I have not posted about the dogs’ training for a bit. We train all year long, daylight and weather permitting. With hunting season winding down, look for more training posts. This is some training...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday–Jewelry
Thunder Shows Off The Duck Bands He And The Other Brown Dawgs Have Earned At Hunt Tests Thanks to BlogPaws for the hop. Powered by Linky Tools Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools...
View ArticleFollow-up Friday 1-3-14
It’s Follow-up Friday. The blog hop that: Let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend. Thank you to Jodi from Heart Like A Dog for hosting the hop! Housekeeping Note: The darn...
View ArticleFond Memories
A few weeks ago we got the news that the farm where we train and test will be sold in May. Obviously this has put a kink into our plans. Our club is going to try to hold a test […]
View ArticleWordless Wednesday–Sun And Shadow
Filed under: dog training, Hunt Test Training, Photo Challenge, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: AKC Hunt Tests, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Dog Training, Outdoors, photography, Snow, Wordless Wednesday
View ArticleBlowing The Whistle
Whenever I mention blind work on the blog, I am frequently asked how to train a dog to stop and sit on a whistle. (I call this whistle sit, but it is also called remote sit.) As part of our […]
View ArticleZigzagging To The Blind
Spring must be coming because on Saturday there was a nice turn out for training. The first set-up threw a lot of dogs for a loop. It was a challenging set-up especially since so many of us are just...
View ArticleUp And Over A Wall
Our training group consists of dogs at various levels in their training, from puppies to Master dogs. Our trainer adjusts each set-up based on the training level of the dog. So for example, last...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday–A Retriever
Filed under: Hunt Test Training, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: AKC Hunt Tests, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Dog Training, Hunt test, Retriever, Snow, Storm
View ArticleWordless Wednesday–A Good Work Out
Filed under: dog training, Hunt Test Training, Photo Challenge, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: AKC Hunt Tests, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Dog Training, Golden Retriever, Hunt test, Labrador Retriever, Outdoors
View ArticleThursday Barks And Bytes–First Day Of Spring!
Yeah right. We had rain part of the day yesterday which melted a lot of snow, but our temperatures are going to dip back down again next week. At least the days will be longer than the nights now....
View ArticleRunning To A Chair
Last Saturday we ran a couple of interesting blind set-ups. Our trainer had the gunner (or thrower/blind planter) sit in a chair in the field and plant the blind at his feet. Once the dogs completed...
View ArticleStorm Works The Back Field
It was cold, cloudy, windy with snow flurries for our Saturday group training. It didn’t discourage the group because a good number of us turned out despite the weather. We were finally able to get...
View ArticleDistractions
I mentioned in yesterday’s post that Freighter ran the first set-up at Saturday’s training different from the way Storm ran it. Freighter is not as advanced in his training so he is not quite ready...
View ArticleTraining Through Challenges
The second set-up we ran last Saturday was to the left side of the field. It was a similar set-up to the one the dogs ran on the right side of the field. The Master level dogs watched a mark […]
View ArticleThursday Barks And Bytes–Freighter Works It Out
Freighter had an easier time than Storm with the second set-up last Saturday. Of course since he is not as advanced in his training, he ran an easier version. To review, the set-up was to the left...
View ArticleCold And Windy
So far our Spring has been cold and windy. It is supposed to be 50 today, but windy. 50 is nice but windy is not so nice. Yes I am complaining. It has been a long winter. We are far […]
View ArticleBoys Of Summer?
The weather for training on Saturday was cold and windy…again! To me it felt like the coldest training day so far. Maybe it was because assorted weather people claimed that it would be a decent day....
View ArticleTaking The Direct Route
In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that Saturday was another freezing cold training day. It may have been freezing, but it was still a good training day. We worked on the dogs taking the most direct...
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