Training Alone

Well today was one of those days that I had planned on training but no one else was able to make it. A few of the regulars are out of town this weekend, and no one else showed up. I decided to make it quick so I could get home and get some other things done. I set up a land double with the bumper boys, and after running that I ran a blind past one of the marks. I then moved over a ways and repeated the concept, but ran two blinds. The blinds weren't terribly hard, but Elsi actually lined both of them! After some uncertainty yesterday on some of her blinds, that was definitely a nice confidence boost for both of us.

Getting Hot Again

I got out last night with Nick and my dad to Kelly Farms. We did a set of singles and blinds, sometimes we ran the single then picked up the blind, other times we left the single as a poison bird and picked it up after the blind. We started on water, in a pond we call 'The Crucible', because it seems to be a lot harder for the dogs than we would expect by looking at it. Then we moved to land and did a similar setup in a nearby field, 3 marks and 3 blinds on water, 2 and 3 on land. Nick's dog hunter has come a long way on his water work this year, so that's good to see. And my dad is just through swimby with his dod, so he's just starting to run blinds with her (Cajun) more regularly.

A busted day for training

I was actually going to try to train before work today, but that didn't happen. So I tried to fit something in after work. Got a call from Marc, a friend that I met through our local Hunting Retriever Club. We train together on fairly regular basis. Anyway, we ended up at a spot I've used in the past but hadn't been to in a while. I figured the cover would be long - it was, but I didn't figure the water would be so low. Several of the ponds had completely dried up and most of the water was basically unusable. We found a small pond that that enough water left and Marc ran his young dog on some short/easier water blinds before it was too dark to see. After letting the dogs run for a few minutes we just called it a night. Oh well, maybe I'll be able to get up early tomorrow morning.

First Blog!

Well,
I finally did it. Been meaning to get a blog up for some time. This blog will be about Dogs and birds, with a heavy emphasis on ducks...

As we are nearing fall, daylight is limited, but I got out today after work with Elsi and did some training. Nothing extremely exciting, we just ran some blinds. Did a couple short 'out to sea', and then did a few land blinds.