The warm weather has hit us & the bad boys are exhausted with the heat.  Today we went walking on the heath at 6:30am.  We are still practising the Sit/Stay.  At the end of the walk it was 14 degrees and getting warmer. 

The boys are looking fairly exhausted but sitting like professionals in the shade. 

At the end of the walk the boys found some scientists who had spent all night on the heath.  They were fairly surprised by the two boys, with renewed energy, saying hello.

Baxter passed his grade one gundog test :-)  After the boys had a relaxing walk in the forest.

Backgroud “melody” by Otto, the neighbor.

May 14, 2009

The boys have been training with 3 puppy dummies lately. This is actually due to Alfie. Eddie is very good in picking up dummies but for some reason Alfie has not been that interested in dummies.

In the local Gundog training couple of weeks ago, I was so proud of Eddie. He did so well!
Unfortunately Alfie just run past the dummies and did not even try to pick them up.

Then I though of getting the puppy dummies so that Alfie would get more interest for dummies and it has been working quite well. Puppy dummies are quite convenient for me to use. Normal dummies would be too big for this kind of ad hoc training.

Even when I’m working at home I can have a dummy on the table and I sometimes give it for Alfie to carry a moment. This has paid off.

Today when going for a walk to the forest I let the boys see me throwing two dummies (I had them on leash when doing that) and then we went off for a walk. Eddie normally runs further away from me than Alfie and therefore  was back in the estate earlier and found one of the dummies first. Then he went on and picked up the other one as well. This made Alfie so interested that I put Eddie on the leash and threw a dummy to Alfie. I was so happy to pick it up and giving it to me. I did that again and he did well again. Then I did one more for Eddie.

This exercise should improve their memory (at least Eddies since he remembered).