Gundog Training
What our Gundog Training covers
For us, success relies on understanding the balance of the partnership you have with your dog and developing a plan to bring out the best in both of you. We start with an initial phone call to find out about you, your dog, and your immediate goals.
This is followed by an assessment lesson which will tell us everything we need to know about your current capabilities, strengths and weaknesses. We then tailor our training sessions to help you move forward and achieve your goals, including providing guidance on how to continue the work at home in between sessions.
We cover everything from basic obedience right through to guided rough shooting days, preparation for working tests and field trials. Whether you have a pet breed or a working dog, our approach is consistent and successful.
Training Paddock
Purpose built to fine tune straight lines, handling, and building the dogs confidence when on a blind retrieve.
Fenced areas for jumping and holding an area while hunting on a retrieve.
Rabbit Pen
The ultimate test of steadiness for a dog, having to hunt up through a mix of light and heavy cover and flushing the real thing.
Invaluable resource for both introducing a young dog to scent and helping steady up some overly keen dogs, but like wise is a great tool to get the slow burners firing.
Water
Our water is great for getting young dogs introduced to water, with easy entry and exit points. Fenced off at half way point to help encourage the dogs to take the same line on the way back through the water when retrieving from the opposite bank.
There is a fence which can be jumped at the far bank to set up really challenging retrieves for more experienced dogs.
HPR Training
We use live pigeons to encourage pointing and to simulate the flushing of game birds. This helps dogs learn to be steady on point and also overcome stickiness when commanded to flush. We train this behaviour in HPRs across all of our ground including large open grass fields, cover crop and in the rabbit pen.
Steady Pen
We also have a steady pen; an enclosed area with live pheasants which we use to help simulate the excitement of getting to a flushing point and keeping the dogs under control at that time.
Pigeons
We use pigeons in and out of cover crops to simulate the flushing of birds and getting the dogs steady to the flush.