When we lived in the middle of nowhere our neighbour who was also the landowner was a right little copy cat mong! She saw what my dog could do, but couldn't be arsed to put the training in herself. Went out and spent £2,000 on a 'fully trained' Springer and bragged about it in the week running up to picking it up...the f****r took off after she had 'gotten to know it' for weeks, and was gone for a good 4 hours, wouldn't respond to the whistle and generally didn't want to hunt, i think cause the Springer was a bit rubbish she then went out and bought a 'fully trained' Cocker and that didn't kn