November 21, 2020

After several long lines and long distance apports, it's always nice to do something completely different, here a short trial of nearly 300 meter. 

November 12, 2020

First a bumper is thrown into water, this should be ignored.

Go over water (blind), sit on whistle and cast left. After bringing in the foam pheasant, an apport out the water is allowed.

October 31, 2020

Multiple exercises, first a foam duck is thrown, this should be ignored.

October 31, 2020

Mark on 145 meter. This time on a rough terrain, Distance is no problem.

October 23, 2020

Mark on 155 meter. Distance is no problem. The area no clean field (grass).

October 10, 2020

Just a short time ago we started with marks with longer distances.

Within 2 weeks you can see he's not slowing down at 70m anymore. This time a mark around 125-130 meter with a crow.

Always nice that your trainings buddy is enthusiastic about the work of your dogs.

October 06, 2020

Double apport, first a pigeon and a coot as second apport.

October 06, 2020

Apport 80M with in the line lure pigeons and lure crows. Of course he must ignore this. I like his (bumper) eagerness to apport .

October 03, 2020

An exercise with many separate training stations: sit and stay (steadiness), come on the whistle, follow without leash, water apport, blind line, memory apport......

September 29, 2020

Here a short trail, the trail stops at the water side. Toots had to find that he should cross the water.

Because I wanted succes, the trail after the water is short or even no trail at all. Next time the trail goes another 200m after he swiped over the water.

September 26, 2020

A trail of 340m, learning to take distance and trying to keep on the track.  He started to fast, not concentrated on the trail, but after a visit to the trees, he started the trail. He has to do a lot of self-study and then he gets better and better in follow the trail.

September 26, 2020

Starting to do marks at a longer distance. Here 150+ meter. You can see that he is used to do marks on 70-90 meter.

Of course when Bob (other labrador) is doing the mark, he is not allowed to see this, so a camouflage net behind which he has to wait.

September 26, 2020

A foam duck is thrown in  deep water at a distance of 110m. He is not allowed to get it, first do a blind line of 65m.

September 12, 2020

Over water followed by a short trail with a duck.

August 01, 2020

JIO (Jachthond in opleiding) organizes DAT trials (Dummy Apporteer Test), here I participated in a day where the judges were going to decide how they would judge the dogs performance.

July 11, 2020

Hunting Dog Buddies Day exercise E.

July 11, 2020

Every year we have a special day (or weekend) with a few 'Hunting Dog Buddies'. we organize training exercises  (this year 5), exercises could be adapted to the level of the dog, most important: have a lot of fun.

June 12, 2020

Apport in a small water, also the way back must go via water, this is called a channel apport. A dog most of the time choose for going back via land.  I had to do everything I could to get him back via the water.

June 02, 2020

Several exercises, the first one are three marks with the Air&Go, a fantastic tool for the marking exercises.

May 16, 2020

Not the strongest part of Toots. He normally runs to hard and in the same time use his nose not enough.

This time he did it perfect.

May 12, 2020

Jump and apport from deep water.

May 09, 2020

Steadyness and obedience, he wants to go in the water but ...

May 09, 2020

Overwater and cast left and right (after stop whistle on water). Not only the dog learned a lot but in this case I learned even more.

May 08, 2020

Over water, sit on whistle and cast back. The second part is also a =n over water, also a cast to the right.

April 27, 2020

A trainings day with lines including a stop on the whistle and the next run without hesitation. Marks and water work.

April 12, 2020

Several trainings elements, steadiness, water apport, blind line and memory apport in rough terrain.

April 10, 2020

Steadyness, water apport, blind line and memory apport.

April 07, 2020

Training with, 2 long lines on memory, walking the square with line, mark and water apport.

January 05, 2020

Cast Toots left, right and back.

August 08, 2019

Visit Denmark, the country of Memphis, the father of Toots.

April 25, 2019

He wants to g to the foam duck in the water. I just try to impose my will on him. At the end he finally was allowed to apport the duck.

April 19, 2019

Discussed the new 'out of site' exercise. !,5 minutes out of site, after 1 minute a dummy is thrown in front of him as distraction, After 1,5 minute you go back to the dog, follow without a lease up to the orange pole. Then sit and do the apport.

April 19, 2019

Last Saturday the owner of the male dog who's the father of Toots was in our country. She made some pictures and video's. This is a video where Toots must apport a foam duck out of deep water.

December 28, 2018

Build up the long line, now a distance of 120m. On his way back, he was distracted by a Belgian Shepherd dog, running on the road, at the end the dog wanted to come to Toots. Toots didn't go to the dog.

December 18, 2018

Running long lines (command in Dutch: vooruit or English: back), before this session there were multiple sessions on the same place, in the beginning he saw me putting the bumpers in the field. In this session he didn't see me putting the bumpers in the field, but because of the previous sessions, he knew what to do (memory). At the end, after a few apport, he did the long line to the same spot, but from a different angle.

November 17, 2018

The day after his first jump. Foam duck thrown with the Zinger Winger.

November 16, 2018

Start learn to jump. I didn't do this before because of the harm you can do to the bones of a young dogs . He try to find a way out, and honestly he did find it some times. A start is made.

November 10, 2018

Today we did some apports. The first  a white bumper on a field with different hights, the second was a duck thrown with a bird launcher. I must train the apports on different terrains and start with longer distances. We have still a long way to go.

November 01, 2018

The second phase of he touch command, now from a few meters  distance. With the Ok word I release Toots from the touch command. In the middle of the video, I start to rotate with Toots when he stays on the touch-pad. With this exercise he learns to rotate by moving  his hindquarters, Useful for the heel work. Next phase will be increase the distance and give the heel command in combination with the touch command (sitting besides me with front legs on the touch-pad) and start to rotate (both directions).

October 18, 2018

Train the sit and come command  with the whistle. Sometimes he must come to me and ignore the bumpers, sometimes he must sit first and then cast him back to the bunper.

October 06, 2018

Two searches in the forrest, a foam-duck and a goose. The first time a dog has to go twice into the forrest to search, they usually finds this strange (he thinks, I already found it boss !!). This was also the first time he had to bring in a goose.

September 28, 2018

The first step of using a touch pad. Next steps will be sending him towards the touch pad from a distance and training heel work.

September 28, 2018

Training steadyness. Seduction of a rabbit to an elastic band passing in front of his nose.

June 17, 2018

In this video you can see all kind of commands. I made the video so I could see what I must improve and what Toots shows me with his body  language (ears, tail, mouth etc..)

May 17, 2018

Here Toots (8,5 months old) goes blind over water, so no support of a person on that side of the water. I practised a lot with bumpers, now I'll start to train more with ducks. You can see he is searching for a bumper, after a verbal 'motivation' he takes the duck. At the other side my daughter helps me. We communicate with a 'walkie talkie' . 

May 14, 2018

Running long lines. On tall grass and on short-cut grass. Happy to have those fields nearby.

April 17, 2018

Stay out of sight for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. A boring video, but also part of the training. 4 cyclists are passing when he's laying down.

April 15, 2018

Apport over water, with help of my daughter. Later in time this will be a blind apport.

March 31, 2018

Running long lines (65-70m). I did this for two days with Toots, at that time he saw me throwing the bumpers. Now I throw the bumpers on the same place, but Toots was at home. So on memory (and the command back/vooruit) he ran three times the long line. Of course with support of the trees and bushes. Later in time I'll train this on rougher terrain and start increasing the distance. This is a crucial part when you are going to direct your dog over long distances. Of course lots to improve for myself, but the start is there. Toots is also changing bumpers, this also will be a point of training.

March 29, 2018

The second time that we are doing water work. On his way back, he swims already a bit better (more in balance).

March 25, 2018

The water is still very cold, but two days before this video he jumped in a pool on his own initiative. So this was the start signal for water exercises.

February 08, 2018

I have a new training tool, the Bird & Go,  bird / dummy launcher. Today I tried out with a foam duck.

January 10, 2018

Today I started the 'sleep' command, follow a trail. It was the trail of a foam duck. He really follows the trail.

January 04, 2018

The second day of doing this exercise. Yesterday with a bowl and a dogs biscuit , today started with a bumper. Because he's very steady, I throw the bumper over his head while he sits in front of me. If I use my left arm, het turns left (right for Toots), if I use my right arm he turns right (left for Toots).

January 04, 2018

This find a little bit further a way, so you can see better that he is searching for the dummy.

January 01, 2018

This is the first time he must search to find the pheasant dummy. The second time he did the ( a little bit harder) search, you could see he certainly used his nose.

January 01, 2018

I first practiced the fetch (vast) and drop (los) as a seperate exercise, in this video I put this together with the apport.

I'm so proud of this little dog.

After the shot, he had to wait for 3 seconds before he could  apport the bumper. 

December 29, 2017

Fetch (vast) and drop (los) as a seperate exercise, on a later time, put this together with the apport.

It was a rainy day, so a little bit to dark to film in house.

December 23, 2017

Apport with gunshot and safety cord. The first apport with a bumper, the second with a pheasant dummy.

December 22, 2017

Stay out of sight in the down (af) position. 

December 14, 2017

Toots  goes back to the bowl (with a small dog biscuit), 5 bowls (45 degrees). At the end a special steadiness exercise during the clean up of the bowls.

December 10, 2017

Toots  goes back to the bowl (with a small dog biscuit), 5 bowls (45 degrees). If this goes well the number of bowls will be increased.

December 08, 2017

Apport, Toots got a small safety cord, just in case he starts to early (before the apport command is given).

December 08, 2017

Starts following with the leasch and without. Before and after the exercise a steadiness sit is added,

A loud firework went off during the exercise. Toots was shocked but recoverd quickly (pfff).

December 07, 2017

Make sure Toots is getting used to all kinds of dummies.

This is the first time he got a pheasant dummy, perhaps a little bit big for a puppy (13-14 weeks old), but he manage to bring it back.

December 02, 2017

Start casting left, right and back (vooruit)  of course also a little heel work (voet) and come on the whistle.

December 01, 2017

First Apports without leasch.  I didn't expect that he would jump over the ditch (perhaps not so wise to let him jump at this age).

November 23, 2017

Start of the command Back (Vooruit). Start with a bowl and a small dog biscuit.

He started a little bit to early.

November 23, 2017

The Sit command, one of the most important commands for a hunting dog. Steadiness is very important.

November 11, 2017

After the first puppy lesson we start training the Sit command and the Apport command. Toots got the age of 10-11 weeks.

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