Both the boys and the lady of the house were training with rabbit on Wednesday night.
To my big surprise Alfie did it the best. At first he did not quite know what to do but when he did he was tracking better than Eddie & Minnie.
Minnie did not really find the rabbit by tracking. Eddie was half tracking half searching.
I had my helmet camera “flatcam” attached to the tree close to the end of the track so I was able to see their performance also after coming home (video).
Minnie, 2 months, is so happy about the crow and has no problems at all with carrying one
It is -22C (71.6F) outside, so we are getting to know crows safely indoors. And just a short period of time, then it is time to play and have fun. Well, she is actually having so much fun carrying the crow too.
We have been training in order to pass the test on October 3rd.
Last Monday Eddie did extremely well: the game came straight to my hand.
We were training with 2 crows and 1 seagull with our friend Donna.
On Thursday I went to the basic obedience training with Eddie and after coming back home I did a short retrieval training with the seagull. It went well. As there is a bond in my plot it is quite easy to train the dogs to retrieve from the water.
This Saturday we will have a guest and will do some training with her. There’s 2 crows and 2 seagulls melting since Friday for it.
Then on Sunday (tomorroe) we will go to the local lake and do some “serious” water retrieving (with longer distance).
Also some training planned for Monday. There is still need to train after the Monday.
Hopefully this will give Eddie confidence to succeed in the test next Saturday.
Donna is now happily home. She was very happy to be here and spending a week with my boys, cats & goats. She really got used to them all.
Last Sunday we were training together (Donna & the boys + also Donna’s sister).
Eddie is enrolled to field trial on October 3rd so I’m hoping he will be picking up crows on his own by then. He is still not quite sure if he wants to pick them. If I throw the crows, then he is picking them up but if he needs to retrieve them without them being thrown, that might cause some problems.
So please keep your fingers grossed that everything will go fine next month and he passes the test. Donna’s owners have already given us champagne for it.
The bad boys are still training. We had a play with the camera afterwards & managed to get this picture. I am not sure Baxter will be ready for his grade 2 exam. I have training schedule drafted however we need to do some catch up. So long as Finley retrieves we should get him through his grade 1. Fingers crossed.
