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caithness hunter · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 108 **Breed:** GSP, JRT.

spent the last week getting her used to the outside world, taking her to the beach, where she went into the water on her own accord up to her knees after the other dogs, which i was pleased with Smile

and took her to the shoot syndacite where we were chopping down trees etc with chainsaws for the coming season and again she was fine with all the noise and strange people milling about.

also did some retreives in long grass to get her using her nose and she soon cottoned on to what was asked of her, she seems eager to please and willing to learn, just need to keep telling myself to take it slowly Smile

caithness hunter · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 108 **Breed:** GSP, JRT.

quick vid of her in the water, she is not fazed by it hopefully she will have no issues with it when older Cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqrRYFhDKuo

caithness hunter · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 108 **Breed:** GSP, JRT.

spnet this week getting Lexi out and about to different venues, took her up the river salmon fishing last night, she must be lucky as my father caught one Laughing

lexi was having a good time of it running about and often falling in the water, not to keen on answering me fully with the distractions of other people there Sad

. Some sheep were in the neighbouring field, so took the oppertunity to do some stockbreaking with her, this will be her second time in amongst them and she is not sure of them and is in no way interested in going near them, quite the opposite im pleased to say Smile

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Tonight i took her out to the shoot im part of a syndicate on, and walked some rough ground where i knew there would have been some activity from the left over pheasants and plenty of scent for her, she enjoyed this and turned on a few interesting scents during the walk.

finished the night off by doing a few dropped dummys and sending her back for them, the furthest being about 50-60 foot back, all were on the short grass so nice and easy for her and all were picked and retreived back to hand, throughout the session i was asking her to sit on the whistle and i asked her to sit some 15 foot from me at the end of the session which she did without hesitation, her first sit at any sort of distance from me, finished the night on that note, quite pleased with how things went Laughing

caithness hunter · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 108 **Breed:** GSP, JRT.

Been busy with lexi, had her at the scone game fair for two days where she drew a lot of attention, it takes a long time to get anywhere when you are stopped all the time by admirers Laughing

Watched the scurry and lexi was not happy about not getting a go when she seen the dummys flying about, maybe next year Laughing

she also didnt bat an eyelid at the dummy launcher firing Smile

Due to this i took the oppertunity to walk in the vicinity of the clay range where again she showed no fear of the noise, so we went a bit closer until eventually she lay asleep at my feet whilst the guns fired a mere 20 foot from us.

been concentraiting on her sit and stay and we are now at about 30 odd feet and staying for as many seconds before being recalled.

Also have took advantage of the hot weather and getting lexi swimming, shes done a few short retreives in the water where she has had to swim to get the dummy and after a little encouragement she is now swimming and retreiving from water Smile

caithness hunter · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 108 **Breed:** GSP, JRT.

a few pictures of lexi taken tonight, she has just turned 4 months, tonight i did a fair bit of memory retreives and gradualy built the distance i was sending her back to a couple of hundered of feet, she enjoyed this very much and is a very keen retreiver.

we had a point here, no flush but the birds must have vacated this area seconds before we passed, lexi was pushing her nose in the grass sure something was there, i was making her sit close to this so assume i scared them off Sad

a few pics of the retrieves to give an idea of distance, she will pull out wide from the dummy using the wind and when she hits the scent she cuts in.

not the best pics as it was late and light was poor and then the rain started, but you get the jist Laughing

Bareve · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:33 pm Post subject:

Fantastic photos - you are doing so well and you can see from the photos how keen she is on her retrieving Very Happy

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BenB · Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:44 am Post subject:

wowee - child prodigy. Fantastic retrieving.
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caithness hunter · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 108 **Breed:** GSP, JRT.

well Lexi flushed her first pheasant lastnight an old cock bird, in some long grass. She scented it and trailed it as it ran along a fence line, i didnt pay to much attention to this though as she often turns on a scent and slows down to a semi point, but up until now there has been nothing there and i can only assume it was old scent, although on this occasion it wasnt .

I had a crap day at work yesterday and was counting the minutes until i could get home and out with the pup, she had been playing up the last couple of nights so i have a check cord on her now and it has helped greatly giving me a bit more control, lastnight she was great, and found her first bird, she sat to its flush and didnt give chase although i think more out of shock at the explosion of wings than any training shes had i have been working on her sitting to the starting pistol and rewarding that with a retreive only once or twice and she will now sit/drop to the shot and await a retreive.

i have increased the diatance she will hold sit upto about 40 feet away now and shes getting to know what is expected and rarely moves.

the crap day at work was forgotten about and i went home happy!

caithness hunter · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 108 **Breed:** GSP, JRT.

few water retreieves today Very Happy

caithness hunter · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 108 **Breed:** GSP, JRT.

quick update on lexi, she has just turned 5 months old and coming along well.

She is pointing well and answers most of the time, although she got her first scruffing a couple of days ago for this very reason and it seems to have sunk home, hopefully it wont need repeated Laughing

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a couple of pictures taken today on our morning walk on point on pheasent, ill try to upload a video also.