Chatsworth Game Fair 2011

On the 4th & 5th of September 2011 Swaine Julianae of Peniglen (Boss) & Ian was selected to run for the URC Lincs Area at Chatsworth in the Working Test Team Event held at Chatsworth House Estate.



We ran a training group last night with 7 people attending with their labradors and one cocker spaniel. A good friend of ours brought her 2 working bred labradors and 1 show bred labrador and asked me if I would work her show bred lab. We wanted to do steadiness training so we did a walk up with dummies being thrown out in front of the dogs which were to be ignored as we walked on. We then walked up to the other end of the field, turned the dogs back to face the dummies and then sent each individual dog to pick a designated dummy and not to swap or pick two dummies up. We also concentrated on tidy heel work, directional work and delivery to hand and must say all dogs are coming along just fine.
Now for the show bred lab which I ran - must say a very good bitch. Very keen and eager to please, watched and marked very well, was very steady throughout the entire session, retrieved very well to hand, was on the stop whistle, recall whistle and did her directional work perfectly. This bitch is also nicely built - not your big hefty show lab, she was of the perfect size and carrying no fat or blubber which allowed her to move freely and with style. Mmmm - very nice indeed.
A good training session all round and its very rewarding to see all the young dogs improving each week. Looking forward to the next one.

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Wednesday Training Group

We had a good training session on Wednesday evening with the beginners group. All dogs are coming on really well and everyone seems
to be enjoying it.

This photo shows Craig with his young bitch Amber, and we are doing straight lining retrieves using the wall as guidance -

and coming back in with the dummy and delivering to hand.

Young Archie watching everything and taking everything in -

whilst remaining steady and off the lead.

Archie doing straight lining and holding the dummy -

 and then delivering to hand.

A beautiful chocolate bitch called Leyla who is also owned by Craig,

and who is the calmest,most intelligentist chocolate lab I have ever

come across. A real pleasure to train with and to watch.

This young happy chappie is Ben - a beautiful young dog.

Aaargh - caught you! Ian taking a rest - and thats before we had even started.

We'd only walked from the car to the field and yes you've guessed it -

he was totally exhausted.

No seriously - only joking there.

 He was relaxing with the dogs waiting for everyone to arrive.