On Saturday Moidart made her debut on the shooting field with a trip to the Godinton shoot. She didn’t mind being crammed into the shoot trailer along with ten people and their assorted dogs and took no notice of the jolting journey to the first drive. I sat her up off the lead alongside Shona […]
Category: Gundog training
Charity Gundog Day
Yesterday was spent at the charity gundog day in aid of cancer research at Fletching in Sussex, organised by my lovely friend Mandy Smith, who sadly lost both her sister and father to this awful disease last year. There were an abundance of helpers, which allowed me to run my dogs as well as take […]
Two good results for Moidart
Moidart is now nearly 15 months old and yesterday she ran in the KSSLRC puppy test at Turner’s Hill. I was particularly pleased with the good heelwork she produced in the walk up and her marking of her retrieve, but just as she was about to pick the dummy there was an almighty hoot hoot […]
Water training at Isenhurst
I had the pleasure of a day out with some like minded friends yesterday, training at the Isenhurst estate with Gilly Nichols. There are numerous lakes to choose from, and we started the day off with our puppies, firstly making sure that they were happy entering water for a marked retrieve and later asking them […]
Moidart’s first competition
Moidart is now 11 months old and her training is progressing well – so well that I decided to enter her in the SEGS puppy test last Saturday. She stayed calm all day and took everything in her stride. The tests were a mark to shot, three shots fired as she walked to heel followed […]