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DIARY
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Welcome to Lottie's Diary |
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CHESAPEAKE SITES UK |
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Lottie |
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The objective of
Lottie's diary is to document the life of a working gundog puppy
from her first day in her permanent home. We hope to show how
gundog training progresses through good times and bad, and to follow
Lottie right through to the completion of her education, until she
takes her place as a fully trained working gundog. |
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Yogi brings home the bird
Yogi is owned by Molly
Barker of Chesepi Chesapeakes |
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In the beginning
June 2006 |
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Lottie is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever. At the
time of writing, Chesapeakes are fairly
unusual in the UK. Only about 140 were
registered with the Kennel Club in 2005 compared
with around 45,000 Labrador Retrievers
Lottie is owned by hobby gundog trainer and founder
of The Gundog Club - Pippa Mattinson
Pippa
will record Lottie's progress and post regular
reports on this website. If you would like to
ask questions or make comments about Lottie's
training, or to give Pippa advice, you may post on
The Gundog Club forum:
here
Your
views will be most welcome |
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Chesapeake Bay
Retrievers have acquired a 'certain reputation',
many feel unfairly, for being somewhat sullen
and difficult to train.
They have not
featured much in field trial awards in this country,
though they are both successful and popular in the
field in their native America. Some
claim their absence from top FT awards is due to a
tendency to vocalise. Rather less of a
sin in the USA, but unacceptable in Britain.
It is necessary to go
back several generations in Lottie's pedigree to
find a dog with working titles, therefore
there will be for some time, a question mark over
her 'drive' or working ability. |
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CHESAPEAKE SITES
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Pippa's first priorities
with Lottie are:
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Attention to
socialisation to instil confidence and help
prevent aggression
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Discouragement of
noise from the beginning
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Encouragement and
development of 'drive'
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Unless otherwise stated* all text and photographs on
this page belong to Pippa Matinson and may not be reproduced without
permission
copyright© Pippa Mattinson 2006
all rights reserved
*Photograph of 'Yogi' by kind
permission of Molly Barker |
