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Hi there. As I'm writing this I'm trying to feeds Spaniels so I appoligise for any spelling mishaps. Before I start I'm writing this for a mate of mine I'm not into the whole running dog thing like I said I'm a spaniel man. Right the problem is that like the title states my mate has a Collie X Whippet. She's 8 months old and she basically does what she wants when she wants. She knows commands like SIT but will only do it if you have something she wants! (e.g.) food. We do take her out ferreting and that but still will not listen and for the last few outings has remained teathered up du

I've got an acme 210.5 for my spaniels works a treat. I was using an adjustable pitch from pets at home but the adjuster kept moving which was confusing the pups.

Thanks for the tips I've found little but often is the key the pups loose intrest after a while. I've also been looking into getting dave lissets DVDs

Nice. Must be the time of year to get permission me and my mate have at least 1000 acres in the start of January after the farmers last shoot of the season. Really looking forward to it. Good luck mate.

My partner has got me a spaniel training book for Xmas so only a week to wait. I've had them out to day on a lead making them wait for a short period of time before I took them off to retrieve the dummy. It worked for my springer but not for my cocker. But I've always known and been told by a few gun dog owners that cockers are a little harder to train. Thanks for the other advice that's the sort of thing I've been looking for. I will keep that in mind for tomorrows training lesson. I'm hoping to get a bit of ferreting in on Sunday so I can wrap my dummy in rabbit fur so they get the smell.

I took my 3 month old Cocker spaniel about 3 week ago just to show him the ropes.

Beautiful matey well done

Hi. I posted a comment on someone's post yesterday it was about training retrivers and i asked for some tips on training. The chaps i was talking to gave me some great advice. (thanks very much). So today i went out a brought a 1/2 pound dummy, 210 1/2 whistle and two rope leads. I've been training my pups on a whistle for a while now just getting them to return to me and sit but the whistle i was using was one of thoses adjustable ones from pets at home. my pups are quite good on the whistle so i thought i'd get them a half decent one. Anyway for those of you that don't know me I h

Running in is really annoying and potentially dangerous. It's especially annoying when somebody else's dog runs in on your dog's retrieve. Keep them on a lead while you throw the dummy. If they lunge forward they'll get a nasty shock when the reach the end of the rope! Once they're sitting again slowly remove the lead while repeating the command "stay", if they move grab 'em. Hold them there with your voice and hand signal until you feel comfortable letting the dog have the retrieve. Having a mate throw the dummy is also good as he can grab the dummy if the dog runs in thus denying th

I use tescos finest £6 just to keep my hands warm when we stand around waiting. We know when we've had a good days ferreting when our hands have been stung in several different places.

Very nice all the best with him.

Ok mate cheers I will take that on board many thanks and good luck to you too.

Nice work..... I've got my spaniels retreaving a ball to hand my Springer is 14 weeks and my Cocker is 15 weeks they return a ball 9 out of 10 times I'm just struggling to get them to wait and go on my command. ( so if you have any good advice please do tell ). Oh yea I do use a whistle and they have two commands 1. Come 2. To sit but they will run back and sit ( not to sure if that's a good thing but it works ). Again nice work. Si

Very cute how old?

Wow.... Some Beautifull spaniels you guys have. Here's mine. Bramble ESS 15 weeks and Thistle CS 16 weeks. These two are my first retrievers.