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The
weather has been very wet and windy recently so we
took advantage of a gap in the clouds today, to take
some pictures of Lottie.
Today we passed quite a landmark in Lottie's
training. I decided to take the clicker delivery
which I have been teaching her in the yard, out
into the field. Although I have been very pleased
with the results at home in the yard, I wasn’t sure
how she would react with the distractions of a windy
day, heaps of rabbit scent everywhere, and the
memory of her poor delivery here in the past.
I
threw four dummies in all, the first two quite close
to me and the last two further out. Apart from
running in on the third dummy ( we have some more
practice to do on steadiness) I was delighted to
see how completely she had absorbed the new delivery
training.
I
did not have to adjust my own position at all. On
every return, she aligned herself precisely in front
of me and offered up the dummy, holding on until I
said ‘dead’.
Ah
well,
at
least the little ‘run in’ shows that the yard work
we have been doing has not dented her enthusiasm for
the retrieve.
What this now means is
that I can move on with Lottie’s retrieving and make
our training sessions together more interesting. I
will be trying the new delivery in a variety of
locations over the next few days, to make sure the
training is thoroughly generalised.
Once my youngsters have
all broken up from school and college over the next
week or so, I |
