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• Posted on June 13, 2015

  Summer Training with surprises

  Training a Hunt, Point and Retrieve (HPR) dog is a bit limited during May and June as you can’t really allow the dog to hunt where you might come across ground nesting birds. Training the dog to find grouse on the moor..
• Posted on April 13, 2015

  A Stark Lesson from my Dog.

  So this time of year is grouse pair counting time as described in the last blog, but there are also the spring pointing tests. I entered two and it went very well for little Gaia. Out of 18 dogs, two were awarded “Exce..
• Posted on March 31, 2015

  “Spring” pointing

  At this time of year, March – April, the grouse in the Scottish Highlands are pairing up, husband and wife. They choose their territory and stick to this, more or less. The closer it gets to the time of nesting, the mo..
• Posted on January 16, 2015

  A Nice Season With the Young Dog

  Gaia is now two and a half and did well in her hunting season this year. We started off with the grouse counting, which is fairly relaxed as there is no demand for anything other than hunt, point and flush. No tricky mar..