Bazooka

Keep them coming BB

You live on fantasy island mate.

Set up's for garden pumps and garden lights are often home owner installed to their own specifications.

Good luck.

Keep digging. The bitch you are on about is a show bitch. Listen, good luck to you. I do know something though.

Take it you now admit you are in fact the one that "no's nothing" Manuel?

The bitch never trialled. Good luck to you though, I see you did your homework ...as usual.

I would say this isn't applicable when you buy in older dogs trained for you. That right E.w.? Kent jumed in a few posts ago and tipped you the wink not to reply to how your lab was coming on and the most recent of your pups.

They could well be satellite cables and phone cables. Still wouldn't want the hassle of having to keep the dogs off them or the hassle of replacing them. Edited, posted at the same time

Try and recognise the signs of any unwanted behavior and nip it in the bud before it develops. Good luck.

A contradiction, as per usual.

Your early training with your lab went well, no doubt. And I take it your lab is a credit to you and the time you gave it as a young pup. Well done. It would be nice to hear of how you interacted with your recent pups and how this affected them as adults. Thanks for the compliment by the way.

So is that picture not you kennel and hard standing?

My advice to Op'er is to do your upmost to avoid ealy mistakes. That way you don't have the headache and heartache of trying to undo them at a later stage. Not letting the dog fail is the one most consistent thing you will hear from good gundog trainers. Minimise the failures and maximise the success's. Good luck.

My post under yours was not directed at your comments or advice. If it was I would have quoted you. Nobody said you said let it run riot.Nevertheless, I do know of novice trainers that have let them "run riot" after being given the advice- "let it just be a pup"

"Letting the pup be a pup" ...is, and has, on numerous occasions that I'm personally aware of, been misinterpreted by umpteen novice trainers to mean- just let it get on with whatever until it's time to start training at 6 months plus. First time dog trainers have a knack of reading that dog training starts at 6 months plus and what goes before does not matter. Conditioning is exactly that, as I said earlier in a post, what you don't do with them (ingraining bad habits) is far more important than the things you do do with them (training/conditioning)as pups. So, you might never have seen that phrase but you can bet your life that "let a pup be a pup" has been interepereted exactly as that with many a novice gundog trainer and I'm surprised you did not know that, Kent.

Apart from the word hello, I've never spoken a word on any occasion, at any time, at a clay ground. Only to the dogs and certainly not loudly. You are twisting the knife for some reason and I can only assume you have a dog that is uncontrollable, something you have failed miserably with, and you cant stand the fact that you in fact are the Manuel of the forum. You are definitely from Barcelona.

Nobody is saying don't let them be pups. There is a difference between letting a pup be a pup and letting a pup do as it pleases for 6 or 12 months. If you let a pup build up certain habits for the first 6 months of it's life, habits you don't want at a later date when it comes to serious training and work, you will struggle to get the learned habits out of it. It's a simple as that. It is a common mistake though that's made. Letting a pup get away with all kinds of behavior only to find when it comes to ' training', the behavior is so ingrained, it's virtually impossible to eradicate. But this is exactly why I mentioned some folk don't realise or are not bothered by certain things, they are not striving to have a good working a dog, they just think that if a dog can go out, pick up a retrieve and return, that's all that's required from a gundog. Most of the time, these folk give the advice...'just let it do what it wants as a pup' things will be ok. Those same folk then come back on here saying things like "how do I stop my dog whinging and whining when it's watching another dog retrieve", or "how do I stop my dog from barking" or " how do I get my dog to hunt for me and not just walk around hunting for itself" or " my dog is happy to pick stuff up but wont come back to me with it" most of these problems (as an example)are likely to be formed/learned in 'puppyhood'

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If I told you I'd never shot a clay at a clay ground you wouldn't believe me, but there you go.My dogs do visit a clay ground with me from time to time but simply get out of the car for half an hour or so then get back in. I do not know one single person that shoots clays, nor do I know anyone at the clay ground I take the dogs to. So you are taking your frustrations out on the wrong person. By all means get you knickers in a twist for something I've done or said though. Please.

I'm from Barcelona.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiThRIHwQDE

I believes you! but they are two very very white front feet in the first pic and the camera angle cant make them completely brown. Anyway, I was just curious and happy to see the pups eyes were nice and clear looking after it's infection cleared.

There's no right way and no wrong way, to some degree. Everyone has their own ideas on early training, and what works for them. What I would say is, if you are going to act upon advice sought on this forum, take into account you have not seen any of the posters dogs. They might (often will) have a completely different idea to you on what a well trained gundog consists of. Only your decisions will determine the outcome of any training. Take responsibility for your own training, look at people who have succeed in attaining a level of consistency that you yourself would be happy with in your own dog. Follow their advice and look for ways to improve on what they are doing. Above all, make every session as stimulating as you can for the dog. The most important thing with early training is making sure you have a clear plan and being consistent with it. The next most important thing is to have a plan B Learning about the things you don't do with them at a young age is far more important than finding out the things you do do with them. There's plenty time for them to learn but never ever enough time to undo the things they should never have learned. Be very careful and wary about listening to anyone that suggests you should let them do what they want and let a pup be a pup for the first six months to a year. Like humans in early childhood, more is learned in the first 3% of their lives than at any other time thereafter. Good luck.

This one had white feet 21 days ago. There's not a sign of white on them now. As the OP says, maybe a bad camera angle? That would suggest they are still white? Nice pup anyway and good to see it's full of beans now.

Any advice on wher to get some chickens going cheep? Also what is it about the blast frozen bit of sardines that makes the coat shine? Or do the ordinary sardines from the sea but in the tins do just the same job for the coats? The ones with the sunflower oil and the tomato flavored ones seem to help the coats but if the shot blast ones do better then... ?