countrygirl
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progress at lastI was starting to think that I was never going to make any progress with my young wirehair bitch(18 months at end of month) although she love to carry things in her mouth and have them throw she has always been relucent to bring them back as has been mentioned before on here also she loves taking off to play with other dogs. But at last I think we are getting there she comes back with alot of encouraging and we have moved on to doing blinds and I can send her back for tennis balls, swimming which was a bit problem for her at one time is now the oppisite cant keep her out of water. This morning the spotted two dobermans across the field seh took off after then I yelled at her(Iforgot my whistle) and she came back  so now hopefully onwards and upwards I have been pursuaded by a friend to enter her in a couple of working test so hard work for the next 5 weeks and fingers crossed
Caz
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Helen
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yay! Well done. you do realise with her being a gwp, there will be plenty of steps back now lol!
Seriously, well done, sounds like she is coming along very nicely.
Helen
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countrygirl
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yes I expect the first step backwards will be when I try and do something in public, she woll propley run off and play with everybody and complete ignore me and then at her first working test she will propley leap in water and refuse to come out, at the game fair on Sat she was transfixed by the water lol
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Helen S
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Good luck with the working tests, my GWP bitch is a couple of months younger than yours - I wish they had more similar tests here in NZ.
We go to retriever club and cause considerable good natured mirth amongst the black lab fraternity, the Chesapeakes sometimes come up with something amusing too so we're not alone! Lately Liesel is fetching the birds quite well but seems a bit shy to retrieve right to me when there are other people standing behind me. She will then crunch if I'm not careful, I'm not too worried because she is usually soft mouthed and I think its' just an anxiety thing. I'll have to enlist helpers to help me practice at home.
Duck shooting season starts in May so we'll get to test my training then.
Helen S
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countrygirl
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I used to take Rumours grand dad Devon to a local training group with retrivers and labs as it was the nearest to me, I think it was the making of him as most of the training they do can be adapted to hps's the only thing that couldent is when they walked up in line but that was good stediness practice. The only big problem I find from the retriver lot is they hate if if hps make even the slightest noise but then it is an elimating factor for them in trials. We have retriver field trials on our shoot and we regular picker upers are on stand by to pick any birds they dont, one of my proudest moments with Devon was during a trial, I was stood back with one of the people the have marking a downed bird, and we both marked a downed hen bird on the edge of the wood, they sent they sent 2 dogs on it and they dident find it, they then declared the trial over, I let Devon off the lead and he went stright in and picked it lol 
If she ends up half as good as her grand dad was I shell be well happy with her
Caz
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mcelkek
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I love it when something like that happens. When I had my Brittany puppies I was taking two off them and the mother to see a guy who wanted one. On the way I stopped off at our shooting ground which was holding a G.S.P trial. The trial had broke for lunch and everybody was eating their sandwichs and admiring eachothers dogs. Anyway when my mates knew I had pups with me they wanted to see them. So of course while I had a pup out running about others came over for a look. We were all standing round looking at the pup when he veers off the lane and round the back of one of the cars and the next thing you saw was a beast of a cock pheasant getting up cackling 
I put my pup back in the trailer and said sorry these two are taken. 
All the dogs and handlers had walked past that spot minutes earlier yet it took a 10 week old to produce the goods
Keith.
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