Gundog people

If we are adding gear reviews....I got gifted the Pinewood Dog Sports Training jacket for Christmas. on first look, loved it. Fit is good and fastenings are all magnetic on pockets so easy to manage. Great integrated wrist warmers and hand warmer pockets, lots of pockets. Lead clip point.


However, it's not bloody waterproof!! Leaks on the shoulders in a heavy shower. It's also less useful than I imagined for walk up shooting days as although you can get plenty of pheasants in the game pocket is drags backwards bringing the zip/neck upwards which is annoying. Disappointed as most reviews I'd seen were good. It will be fine for training in cold dry weather and drizzle but for €250 I expected much more.
 
druid said:
If we are adding gear reviews....I got gifted the Pinewood Dog Sports Training jacket for Christmas. on first look, loved it. Fit is good and fastenings are all magnetic on pockets so easy to manage. Great integrated wrist warmers and hand warmer pockets, lots of pockets. Lead clip point.


However, it's not bloody waterproof!! Leaks on the shoulders in a heavy shower. It's also less useful than I imagined for walk up shooting days as although you can get plenty of pheasants in the game pocket is drags backwards bringing the zip/neck upwards which is annoying. Disappointed as most reviews I'd seen were good. It will be fine for training in cold dry weather and drizzle but for €250 I expected much more.
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Very disappointing. Waterproof is a must! Your weather must be like mine in the West Country.
 
Question for you all, toys or no toys for puppy? Not good to allow them to chew/play with them themselves?

Not sure if it would impact the retrieve eventually when moving on to dummies etc. But, I believe it's good to let them carry things around in their mouth, so conflicting advice!

These are my adult dogs toys, she’s pretty proud walking around with them.


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Toys, chews whatever they want but I kill the squeakers by poking a skewer through them. Mine have a huge toy basket to take from and play with. Balls and dummies are for training only if you want to train her as a gundog
 
Have decided a good trainer is like a good divorce lawyer. Every time you go see them you come out feeling positive and in control.

Group training is awesomely boring but happily only because we can already do all the things the others are struggling with. But that’s a good fault! And sitting and watching others run about is always worthwhile.

Dummies again (@druid ?) these ones… anyone know how small they are?
 

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Clodagh said:
Have decided a good trainer is like a good divorce lawyer. Every time you go see them you come out feeling positive and in control.

Group training is awesomely boring but happily only because we can already do all the things the others are struggling with. But that’s a good fault! And sitting and watching others run about is always worthwhile.

Dummies again (@druid ?) these ones… anyone know how small they are?
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Clodagh said:
Thank you. Fussy puppy loves it and much as I don’t want to pander to her need for novelty too much I do like it.
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I have a few - they're very useful on wet days when you don't want soggy canvas dummies in your vest training several! The mini Mallard, teal, widgeon and partridge are similar sizes - cheapest from Muntjac Trading
 
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I have a few - they're very useful on wet days when you don't want soggy canvas dummies in your vest training several! The mini Mallard, teal, widgeon and partridge are similar sizes - cheapest from Muntjac Trading
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Thank you.
 
I've just have a lovely weekend away in the South Lakes with Freya and my Sunday morning training groupand our trainer. Fabulous weather and great company made for a good time.
 

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Well I know I suffer slightly from the SM only post positive syndrome. But…
I’ve been really struggling with the puppy. Just wild. So fast. So driven. A couple of serious recall failures and I was at the end of my tether. I was offered money for her. I nearly took it.
Thankyou to those who listened to my endless drivelling and gave me hope.
Today we did her first water work in the river and reed beds (too hot for the paddock) and she was awesome.
Not saying she won’t be a dick at times going forwards and I still see the day we can walk her loose in a big field as way unattainable but today… she was great! 😍
 
Place boards.
I’ve never used them before but I got them for Puppy and she thinks training me to feed her biscuits is a good con.
So today I thought of her amazing stop and recall and Scout’s appalling version of same and thought 💡… it may not work but he won’t retrieve dummies so I do very little training with him but why not use food bowls, like I do with her. He’s 4 this year and has had some fabulous days shooting where he buggers off and pleases himself… it may be too late to change that. But no harm, no foul.
So… how do you get an overexcited kangaroo to even touch the place board? We started today and achieved nothing bar a split lip and a bent pair of glasses after he head butted me at some speed while leaping in the air?
Thank you.
 
I'm not a gundog person but I mark and reward accidental touching/just walking over/towards/around something in the beginning and they soon work it out, then you can lure if you want to, to increase duration.
 
Yeah, ditto above and start with him on a lead if necessary for control. If he has a good heel position starting off with stopping with him at heel on the board and using a word for it (mine being place) to mark the action of being on it and reward
 
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