Episode 132 - working tests (the good, the bad, the ugly)

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃In this episode, I recount our incredibly stressful race against the clock to get the right stuff, in the right place, at the right time. Phew.

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃What are the pros and cons of working tests?

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃This episode is an outdoor ramble (verbally and physically!).... 

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃Here are some useful tips for moving onto marks and then blinds across water.

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃This is a slight bonanza of a wandering episode, where I waffle about prepping for our upcoming litter, woes around tick products, why it's a useful training opportunity to have a dog which is highly aroused... in your yard and how to train many dogs at once. It's a bit all over the place and it's got something for everyone. Sort of.

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃I talk about prioritising your enjoyment of the actual activity of working your dog in the field, separate to any achievements, goals or objectives. It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. I also talk about the importance of splitting your training and structuring your work with blinds. Be a lumper and not a splitter. Finally, we've moved our breeding from Roche (Weim) forwards and everything is a leetle beet manic, chez nous.... 

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃In this episode I waffle in response to a listener's question about using bird launchers and control at the flush of game.

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃This episode is an assortment of amazingly interesting things. It's like a box of Quality Street, only with a lot of The Purple Ones. 

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃A quah episode (question and answer)  about a dog who is under good control in training scenarios - but out of control, in trials. 

🙃 Text me (Jo) at Hold the Line 🙃In this episode, I talk about the skill and concept which is 'lining'. I introduce my new course (creatively called 'Lining') - which you can get a discount on using code Lining30