We had a fantastic day today when our good friend - Pete came up from Norfolk to spend a days training with us. We started the training session off at about 11ish, up on some local farm land. We firstly excersised the dogs - letting them blow off a bit of steam then moved onto the basics of training. We started by assessing the young ones, seeing what we needed to concentrate on, and then moved on to a few simple excercises. We also introduced cold game to some of the young ones today, and each dog did exeptionally well. We were promoting steadiness with the more experienced adult dogs, they were stood watching whilst all the training was going on - and the birds were been thrown.
After a short break for dinner, we swapped the dogs over and then went back out to do some simple seen retrieves with the cold game, a bit of straight lining, a bit of whistle work, and delivery. Again everything went smoothly, and as the light started to fade - we packed up and came home for a nice cup of hot tea.
It was very nice to see Pete as we hadn't seen him for a couple of months, but it was even more rewarding to see his young dogs working so well.
He has done remarkably well in training his young ones over the past few months - the dogs have improved dramatically since we last saw them. They were all very well behaved, very quiet and steady workers, and they put alot of thought into their work. It was a pleasure to watch them.
Pete set off from his home in Norfork about 6ish am and didnt return - and get home till about 10ish at night - so he had an extremely long day. He proberbly won't be doing a repeat of the journey for a good few months yet!
Heres some photos of the day.
