I am so excited for you. Wish Mike was nearer to us,would love for him to assess Harry. When he was younger we didnt call him back often enough, had been told somewhere that this can just encourage him to disobey as he is having fun where he is and doesnt see the need to come back. However we have kept him on a lead for the last 3/4 weeks, except one day last week and again one day this week when we took him to the local park, and he was really good. We make it as much fun as possible when he is with us and boy can you tell he is enjoying himself. Me and hubby are shattered though, running around like loons saying things like 'chase me' and 'where am I?' But I am picking many tips up from this thread, hope you dont mind Mike!

Hi lizzy23,

where is this gun-dog trainer based cos i am in cheshire and would love to try it again with sam. i have had a couple of sessions with another gun-dog trainer but was put off because the methods he used were not positive reinforcement and he said the only way i could get sam to recall was to use an e-collar because his prey/hunt drive is so high, so i didnt go again!

Well done Lizzy!!! Its a great feeling.

Thanks for the update


Springergirl...I would be so happy for you if you are close enough to Mike, maybe he can crack that nut

funnily enough i spoke to mike last night and he's ringing me back tonight for a chat. he's prob only about half and hour away if that so i really, really hope he can help me!!! so i'll keep ya posted!

Ah! but I have a feeling I have seen you and your dog before (Well Lyds has definitly mentioned you and him )

DONT Panic, was not for a lesson - as you let slip you do agility at Limes Farm. Lyd's and my OH are very good mates, so we pop in from time to time.

So tonight if you see us with our GSD, run and hide

Mike

Hi mike,

i hope it was all good from lydia!!!!!

dont worry i wont run and hide!!!! at least you might get to see a bit of what sam is like before i talk to you later!

sue

Juat come back to look at this post and again my replies are not there

Well done girlies and Nev

Well just back, and i know before we left, Nev said if Moll did any resemblance of quartering he would show his Ass in woolworths window and eat is hat, well the hats going down, and he'll be at woolies on Monday Morning .............. NOT!!!!!

So how did we do, well i think this will be a fairly short one, because we spent most of the lesson with Molly off lead,but under control she wasn't running round like a nutter, she was close to all of us all the time, and when i say close within about 10ft, which is a minor miracle in itself.

Her heelwork and stay are now Solid, and in this environment her recall is about 95% (just need to transfer this home now) so as said today we worked on a bit of quartering, alright it wasn't as close as it ought to be, but what the heck for a first attempt it wasn't bad, and we did a bit of retrieving, which moll has never been keen on outside of the house (seems Rabbit skin dummies are the order of the day)

So i guess its more of the same for the next fortnight, its all baby steps, but steps in the right direction

Er Liz - from what I've heard you had an excellent session

Will all be down at Woolies Monday morning

Sounds like great progress to me. Thanks to your inspiration Kimba & Kofi are going for their first lesson with a gundog trainer on Tuesday. To make the sort of progress you have done would be a dream come true!!

Liz you did well (So did Nev!!)

So did Kelly and the welsh thingy

Sally - who you going to see?

Mike

Mike - We are going to see Alex of Languedoc Gundogs who is one of the ones you recommended. Hope he can help me sort out my young runaways!

Sally - Have a great time on Tuesday I have lessons with Alex, I find the time go`s really quickly and we get a lot from it.

Look forward to hearing how it go`s.

Amanda

well done liz, sounds like you had a great lesson from reading your post! i'm really looking forward to my lesson with mike, not til 9th march though! seems ages away.