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Blinking

Buying a crate

Chasing

Check cords

Clicker training

Clicker retrieve

Clumber spaniels

Crate training

Daily stay

Delivery problems

Finding a puppy

First nine months

Fucosidosis

Genetic diseases

Growling whilst eating

Gundog care during the shooting season

Gundog Trainers Exposed

Gunfire

Health tests - retrievers

Hip Dysplasia

Holding an area

House or kennel

Irish red & white setters

Optigen testing

Pedigree Dogs Exposed

Protecting hips

Puppy recall

Puppy retrieve

Raw food

Recall

Resource guarding food

Scurries

Should a beater’s dog retrieve?

Spaying

Stop to flush

Trained retrieve

Working trials

 

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Training Articles

Steadiness from the flush  for HPRs

Follow Bill Thaynes method to achieve a sit to flush in your hpr

 

Check cords  - how and when to use one

by Pippa Mattinson

 

Teaching a spaniel to 'hold an area'  Jack Russell explains how to hold and work a dog in a small area Read more...

 

Dogs that won't stop chasing by Pippa Mattinson

 

The trained retrieve by Pippa Mattinson

How to teach a non-retriever to fetch and deliver

 

Delivery Problems

Dropping the dummy and other delivery issues by Pippa Mattinson

 

Familiarisation to gunfire by Martin Deeley

How to introduce your puppy to shot.

 

Clicker training by Pippa Mattinson

Find out how it works and meet some success stories

 

The puppy recall  by Pippa Mattinson

How to train a reliable recall in your young puppy

 

The first nine months by Bruce Ross-Smith

A summary of retriever basics

 

What can be done about blinking?  by Pippa Mattinson.  How to deal with dogs that prefer game to canvas dummies

 

Should you buy a crate?  Pippa Mattinson

Are puppy crates a nasty cage or a happy den?

 

Charlatan or knight in shining armour by Pippa Mattinson  -  gundog trainers exposed

 

The puppy retrieve  -  by Martin Deeley

How to get your puppy off to a great start with retrieving

 

Finding a puppy  by Pippa Mattinson

How to find a suitable gundog puppy

 

When does the howling stop? by Pippa Mattinson

Crate Training  for puppies

 

Stop to flush  by Pippa Mattinson

Diet,  health and housing

 

Health Tests for Retrievers  -  we look at what is available

 

Pedigree Dogs Exposed  the Gundog Club takes a look at the controversial BBC documentary screened in August 2008

 

Genetic diseases in dogs  -  a look at mechanisms of inheritance and the importance of genetic diversity

 

Fucosidosis  Should we test our working dogs?

By Christine Bridgwater

 

Optigen testing  What is it and how can we use it

By Natasha Bujnoch

 

Healthy hips  by Pippa Mattinson

How you can help protect your puppy's hips

 

House or Kennel by Pippa Mattinson

Where should my dog live?

 

Raw food  by Pippa Mattinson

Is the latest trend in raw feeding a dangerous fad or a sensible alternative to dried food?

 

Canine Hip Dysplasia  by Pippa Mattinson

 

Should you spay your bitch?  by Pippa Mattinson

 

General behaviour

 

Help! My puppy growled at me  -  how to treat resource guarding of food

 

Walt Disney has a lot to answer for (do dogs know right from wrong)  a look at canine intellect and emotions by Pippa Mattinson

 

Gundogs at work and play

 

Scurries  by Kerry Wiggins

Find out what competing in gundog scurries is all about

 

Working Trials by Alyson Tohme

Find out what Working Trials are all about

 

Irish Red and White Setters  -  Read about these graceful setters

By Muriel Iles and Patricia Hadrell

 

Clumber Spaniels  Read about efforts to restore this breed to its former working glory.  By Debbie Zurich

 

 

 

     

 

     
 
       
         

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