Stewart North at Workinggundogs has been invited on many occasions to events at Stapleford Park Country House Hotel, 2011 brings with a number of high end events to the region for further information contact the Stapleford Forum
Several clients joined Stewart North and workinggundogs.co.uk for a gundog training day around the lakes and woodland owned by the Gretton family.
We started with 5 gundogs, Irish Water Spaniel Aoife, English Springer Spaniel Pippa, Cocker Spaniel Bramble, and two Labrador Retrievers Freddie & Algie.
The main tasks set out for the training session were, Entering Water Freely, Steadiness to other dogs, Steadiness to a fallen dummy, recall to handler, delivery to hand, water retrieve with water distraction, retrieve on land with water distraction, directional retrieve with water distraction.
Several of these gundogs live at home with no other dogs in the family, these types of training sessions are invaluable in creating a much more tolerant and steady gundog, all the gundogs improved throughout the session, it was a particular difficult session for the IWS who was very challenging of the owner.
Aoife, Pippa & Freddie all had delivery issues that needed to be sorted.
All the gundogs retrieved from the water and ignored the water distraction!
Cocker Spaniel Bramble had very little water experience, typical of a young dog she had to work out that her swimming technique was pushing the dummy further out!
A number of set up problems were discovered, when gundogs were asked to ignore a water distraction, several clients were reminded about sending techniques and their go back commands!
A very rewarding session, which needs further practice?.
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