lozrob

missed it this year , my shooting buddies went and won.

i have been reading about everbodys new puppies with loads of interest, reading about their failures and wins. Millie is a working cocker spaniel bitch , and about as mad as a box of frogs as you can get . training has been a really frustrating time , almost to the point of giving up. but i kept on , a little bit every day , just the basics though, she is now 12 months old and only just starting to walk nice , let alone retrieve a dead bird . she still finds my slippers much more interesting than anything else. i joined the CAMBRIDESHIRE GUNDOG CLUB --puppy classes . it was such hard work to get millie to do anything she was supposed to. she loves to poss about with the other dogs . not nasty in any way though. then after six months of going to the saturday morning events , the club tell me its time for the "working gundog puppy test " **** , i think to myself , theres no way we are going to pass that , anyway we went. by this time , me and millie are the only ones still going on saturday mornings as the others had givern up. got to the test area and there were 3 adult gundogs with their trainers in a row , we had to join the line . **** i thought theres no way she will sit still. then from there we had to weave around the other 3 dogs , nightmare because millie just wanted to say hello to her new best friends, do a couple of sit and stays , walk to heel , retrieve a dummy back to hand twice. recall on the whistle , stop on the whistle. it took a lot of patience and a few loud growls from me , but we did mange to complete the tasks , not very cleanly but complete. then the judges asked me if there was anything i would like to do with millie before i finish , so we did a memory retrieve , i walked her out from the line about 40 yards and dropped a dummy ,then both walked back , and then sent her out for the dummy. she went straight out , and straight back , no messing about, even the other 3 gundog owners clapped us. needless to say we passed the test. we are still doing the basics with dummys and some times a long line to try and get the message across before she flicks about. speak soon. loz.

great picture . my new pup Millie is 6 months old and is still chewing my slippers.

all points so very true. it did make me laugh out loud.

AGRIV8 what a gorgeous looking dog. B725 same as , i cant wait for all millies sharp teeth to fall out, BUT i am so enjoying her company. ive even lost a bit of weight.

hi ya . im having the same thing with mine , shes 13 weeks old and im nearlly 60 , shes off like a steam train . millie found something out on the lawn at work yesterday , it looked like a wet sock , no way was dad going to take it off her , when i finally prised it from her jaws , it was a dead rat that had been turned inside out and still sticky. yuck.

awesome looking pup, now the fun starts again. looking forward to following his progress . maybe even see you at Bigbirds.

big bird --- of course,

hi. discobob , i attended the F1 challenge also , ended up with 73 , you beat me by one , we were in the same situation as you , we came into the room late , missed the raffle .and prizes . but on that note my squad reaaly enjoyed it. i think our squad came third overall. i just hope they sort it better next time.

say hello to millie guys. she is absolutely full of it, so bold. 10 weeks old .

i had a spaniel with cocker rage , if resting somewhere , ( always late at night ) if any of the family disturbed her she would attack. she bit me hard one day and i had the same thoughts as you in what to do , i decided to keep her outside in a kennel , putting her away for the night at 8pm. we managed to control this aggression thing for 3 years . no one got hurt. then one day late at night she was with my daughter , we missed the curfew , she bit my daughter hard on the hand. the decision in what to do was then very easy to make. sorry for the essay but i agree with everybody else.

looking great, lovely job.

hows stan doing .

i do hope you get this sorted. best of luck.

marsh man........ cheeky f______ . 🤣🤣🤣