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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 ?
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Last night when I went to lock dogs up the birds in my aviary were we're flying round like mad, obviously they don't fly in the dark so I was concerned , I turned a light on in te kennell then they calmed down, I couldn't see if it was one bird chasing another but again in the dark you wouldn't think so? This morning I looked at them and 2 siskins and a mule have got feathers missing above there beaks , looks like mites but I'm sure I wold have noticed it yesterday as I had a good look at them, I'm thinking its maybe damage from flŷing into te mesh? Has anyone had this before?
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Very handy if they make a kill out of the beam and don't leave it , you can spot the dog a lot easier, why do people knock it?
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Thanks for the advice which makes sense Sussex, casso, how often should I get the dog to sit to whistle and cone back to whistle though? Once or twice a day more or less, I've only had her a month and she had one nothing with her last owner, maybe 2 r 3 retrieves a day?
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My sprocker bitch is now 6 months old and has started to run on when of the lead, she used to come to the whistle quite well but now hardly does, she has been kept away from quarry but chased a wagtail alround the field behind my house, now she sees a bird and runs like mad after it ! What do you think is best to do with her, keep her on a lead for a bit and try and train her in the garden or chase after her and stop her if I can , or what ?
