This article is adapted from an excerpt from 'The Right Start' - a guide to raising a gundog puppy for fieldwork. You can buy The Right Start directly from the Gundog Club bookshop. Noise is a … [Read more...]
Day Two: Rachael’s first vaccination
Many pups nowadays have their first vaccination at seven weeks old, with the second one at around ten or eleven weeks. My own vet does not like this policy as he believes the final vaccination … [Read more...]
Rachael’s first night
It can be very disheartening to struggle through sleepless nights with a little puppy. It is all too easy to wonder if you are doing it all wrong, and to lose your sense of proportion as sleep … [Read more...]
Rachael comes home
At last the big day arrived. We were about to collect Rachael our beautiful new Labrador puppy. It was time to bring her home to join our family. Our journey was prolonged due to a traffic … [Read more...]
My Chocolate Adventure
Members of the shooting and working gundog communities will be well aware that chocolate Labradors have a poor reputation when it comes to working ability and general intelligence. If this is the … [Read more...]
The trouble with springers: Part Four
[wp_ad_camp_2]In this series of articles about working Springer spaniels, I have been looking at the problems that many people experience when they take on their first working Springer Spaniel. Not … [Read more...]
Three helpful rules for a great puppy recall
There are few thing more annoying than a dog which won’t come when you call it. It is a very common and frustrating problem, that people often create inadvertently. And that can be avoided by … [Read more...]
The Trouble with Springers: Part Three
In part two of 'The trouble with springers' I looked at the 'trouble' that springers can get into in an inexperienced working home. In this article I will be looking at the combinations of … [Read more...]
Should ‘beating’ spaniels be taught to retrieve?
From time to time people tell me that they think it is a bad idea for spaniels that are intended for beating, to be taught to retrieve. The theory is, that teaching a spaniel to retrieve might … [Read more...]
The trouble with springers: Part Two
In part one of The Trouble With Springers, we looked at the difficulties many novice Springer spaniel owners get into when they buy a working Springer puppy as a pet. But it is not just ‘pet homes’ … [Read more...]
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