I had been asked to stand in for a gun who was unable to attend at the weekend,
so decided it would be a good opportunity to take little Brie along to experience the sights & sounds of a shoot.
She spent most of the day tethered on peg with me, she remained steady & quiet as birds were flushed over us, walking between drives she heeled beautifully & listened to every command I gave her, so as reward I allowed her to work the dyke's & hedgerows, where she flushed a couple of snipe again remaining steady as they flushed.
Through out the day she attracted lots of attention from everybody saying what a bonnie looking dog she was & even managed a few cuddles from one of the teenage beaters.
One of the guns son's who is 7yrs old took a real shine to her & after one of the drives he was showing her a woodcock which had been shot, he gave her a short retrieve with it & after initially sniffing it & returning to me, I sent her back for it & she delivered it to hand which I was really pleased with as lots of dogs can be funny about picking up woodcock.
She did give just about every lab on the shoot a telling off for sniffing her bits & rightly so!
All in I was really pleased with her & she was a little
Brie is not a natural retriever, however whilst training yesterday she made my day, by not only retrieving a cold pheasant for me but completing a blind retrieve with one & also making a marked retrieve from a fenced in area, which required her to jump a low fence on her return, she really is a little star & I'm so proud of her at the moment