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Any tips on how to get my 8 month old sprocker to look at me more when in the field, I am making it sit with hand signals and feeding by hand and staying with hand signals but once in the field she looks everywhere for birds or movement so I can't get her attention , I can sit and recall her by whistle most of the time but her focus is bad, retrieves in garden , I can even sit her throw dummy send her when I'm ready and sit her when she brings it back in garden but not in field, anything else I could practice on to gain focus?Thanks for any replies in advance
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I don't disregard the advice one bit , I also don't no how to determine the dog is 100% sorted without trying it in the field ?
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Had a bedlington whippit/greyhound, George Kelly bred bed whip to coursing grey, if I could find the same bred pup I would have to have it, long before the ban I would take her out with ferrets , the terriers , mouching and coursing and she did it all well, don't no if anyone breeds with the right ingredients anymore but if they do there worth keeping
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You need to keep your dog on a check cord, when he f**k off you have to be able to stop him. Get old of him apply some pressure so he knows he had done wrong.. Scruff him or something alike... Take him back to the spot he broke from and make he do what you where trying in the first place. You need to get the, to want to work for you... The ones that want to work for them selfs you need to be keep on top of them or they will be away from you. Had one like it and in the end I shipped it off to pro who put it back on track for me. Even better is for you not to take it near any birds find a quiet
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Could do with someone with experience in this to answer this as I'm still having problems with my sprocker pup, 8 months old, sits and recalls to whistle in garden but constantly looking for birds to chase in field, can't get her to look at me just mad for birds and will run after them completely blanking me
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Badger 0802 let me have a Jill for free which was very kind of him and well appreciated, nice to meet him, nice bloke.
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I've done sitting or stoping, recall with the whistle and retrieve tennis ball and dummy
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. I will ring you tomorrow , thanks
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Think it's to far but thankyou
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Been teaching my pup( 8months old )to quarter as she runs on to far when I let go of her horse lead, she does change direction well when she hears the whistle but still keeps to far ahead, any way to stop this apart from constantly calling her back?
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My daughters polecat coloured Jill got killed by a friends dog the other day and I need to replace it before she notices, she looked after it from about 10 weeks and it will not be easy to tell her it's gone, I will pay good money for a replacement if anyone has one
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Desperate need of a polecat coloured Jill, My daughters Jill got killed by my friends dog the other day and I need to find one that is polecat coloured and medium size, good money paid , she dosent know yet so if it's tame I don't think she will notice
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nice bitch , do you use her for shooting as well or just lurchers and ferreting?
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it's a sprocker I originally bought to use with lurchers but now hopefully train as a gun dog, if the gundog classes start about march time it will make her nearly a year so from what I gather that would be about right?
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Went out last night I'm sure the bunny s are getting quicker , even on crop land!
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Would it be a good idea to introduce spaniel pup to ducks and chicken (on lead) to try and steady it up a bit?
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the main issue is once out in the field it wants to run flat out on scents and sight of movement birds ,it used to stay with me in the corner of the field and do a few basics, retrieve, recall , sit sometimes but now I am having to put a lead on her when I go for a walk , she still does the basics in the garden though, hopefully she will get more obedient in the garden rhen try again in the field?
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I would love to have it out now but it would run of on a scent at the moment I think, o much of a risk until its more trained , 6 months old , why would you have it out now ? Do you think it would steady it up?
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Has anyone ever used a spaniel for ferreting, just wondering how it went as will try mine when it's ready?
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I can't really do that in the field as its prey drive is more powerfull than apatite , gone back to basics playing and guiding through play training in garden but rewarding with food, so using food for getting it steadier in field really, good or bad move in your opinion mate?
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Would it be a good idea showing a Cocker ducks and chickens to try and steady it a bit? It wants to chase every bird that flys past , I've done it with bunny s with a lurcher and it started using its head a it more after
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I don't reward retrieves with food,thanks for reply
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I have been training my spaniel the basics, sit , stay , and come rewarding her with food, In fact I hand feed her most of her food , I have been told that its not a good idea but I've alwaŷs done it with my other dogs, is it bad or good way of teaching basics? Thanks for any feedback
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Anybody no?
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What age would you start. Dog at a gundog training club, my pups 6 months old and now mad for hunting so I am going to keep her on a lead then take her to a training club, I will train her in the garden in the mean time, but until what age ?
