Gundog training

7th March, 2011

On Sunday 6th March Mr Jones was joined by an enthusiastic group of parents and children who had brought along their unruly pets for an afternoon of instruction and training. Mr Jones writes:

I am told that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. So it was that I found myself as the metaphorical one-eyed man in charge of twenty two gundogs, accompanying Packwood parents and their offspring. By the time my dog (the exemplar) had already helped himself to a visitor’s picnic followed by their rather cute lady dog for dessert; it became clear that this was not going to be an afternoon which would produce a Field Trial Champion. No matter, it was a lot of fun and I hope that the visitors picked up one or two tips which may help in their training regime. Ask me what the number one tip is? Well it’s exactly the same as with children, get them to sit, stay and walk to heel and everything else is a piece of cake.