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Cocker Activities => Working => Topic started by: seaangler on January 28, 2012, 06:27:01 PM
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Whos books are the best to read in your opinion....Chris
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These are the ones I have found useful:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Training-Spaniels-Joe-Irving/dp/1853104191/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327853198&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Training-Working-Spaniel-Janet-Menzies/dp/1846890705/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327853198&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Gundogs-Introduction-Training-Handling/dp/1852237643/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327853107&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Springer-Spaniel-Keith-Erlandson/dp/1904057187/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327852994&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hup-Training-Flushing-Spaniels-American/dp/157779043X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327853359&sr=1-1
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Eric Begbie - Gundog training made easy. Loved it, easy to follow and its positive training methods.
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I really fancy getting the Hawcroft Gundogs Cocker DVD set. I have heard brilliant reports about it - I am just nervous about spending £100 for it!! I think I will wait til we are in the frame for another pup and get it then.
I have the Joe Irving book and it is very good. Got it for a bargain price at a second hand book store.
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I've bought the Eric begbie one for my kindle! :) xx
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I really fancy getting the Hawcroft Gundogs Cocker DVD set. I have heard brilliant reports about it - I am just nervous about spending £100 for it!! I think I will wait til we are in the frame for another pup and get it then.
The Hawcroft DVDs are excellent, Simon Tyers is Caoimhe's trialling trainer/handler and he's the most naturally gifted (and nicest) gundog trainer - actually dog trainer - I've ever met. They're very thorough and very well done.
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I really fancy getting the Hawcroft Gundogs Cocker DVD set. I have heard brilliant reports about it - I am just nervous about spending £100 for it!! I think I will wait til we are in the frame for another pup and get it then.
The Hawcroft DVDs are excellent, Simon Tyers is Caoimhe's trialling trainer/handler and he's the most naturally gifted (and nicest) gundog trainer - actually dog trainer - I've ever met. They're very thorough and very well done.
How very strange i know Simon and his very nice wife he lives almost on our doorstep just down the road from us..He also use to be a gamekeeper.
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The Hawcroft DVDs are excellent, Simon Tyers is Caoimhe's trialling trainer/handler and he's the most naturally gifted (and nicest) gundog trainer - actually dog trainer - I've ever met. They're very thorough and very well done.
Nicola - Your red cocker is stunning. We would love a pup just like her. We have been in touch with Simon about where best to source a good pup from and we are waiting for some litters to be born. My background is working sheepdogs so gundogs are all quite new to me. We have a cocker bitch now but she is Show/Work X. She loves beating and flushing but I can simply not get her to pick up. I try and try but have decided she will just be a pet dog. We would like another pup to be a companion for her but one that has a chance at making a gundog (if it doen't work out, that's fine - we will just have two lovely pet dogs!). I have made lots of mistakes with our current bitch, Gretel. I used to breed English Partridge and had a big problem with Gretel digging them out and chasing them all over the village! I think that once a pup sees game, it can spoil them...
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The Hawcroft DVDs are excellent, Simon Tyers is Caoimhe's trialling trainer/handler and he's the most naturally gifted (and nicest) gundog trainer - actually dog trainer - I've ever met. They're very thorough and very well done.
Nicola - Your red cocker is stunning. We would love a pup just like her. We have been in touch with Simon about where best to source a good pup from and we are waiting for some litters to be born. My background is working sheepdogs so gundogs are all quite new to me. We have a cocker bitch now but she is Show/Work X. She loves beating and flushing but I can simply not get her to pick up. I try and try but have decided she will just be a pet dog. We would like another pup to be a companion for her but one that has a chance at making a gundog (if it doen't work out, that's fine - we will just have two lovely pet dogs!). I have made lots of mistakes with our current bitch, Gretel. I used to breed English Partridge and had a big problem with Gretel digging them out and chasing them all over the village! I think that once a pup sees game, it can spoil them...
Thank you, even though I'm biased she is an amazing girl :D Simon should be able to point you in the direction of some very close relatives of hers, he has a few of her half siblings (her sire is his dog Timsgarry Barlow). I would unreservedly recommend his dogs but if you're new to gundogs and looking for a working (as opposed to trialling) dog I would tell him that; although Caoimhe is very true to Simon's breeding in that she's very focussed, intelligent and trainable, as a FT dog she's also very fast, very driven and very 'hot'; she does everything at 110mph and literally makes you dizzy sometimes. If a pup gets free access to game and starts free hunting and chasing it can be very difficult to re-train them out of this again.
She doesn't believe in letting her feet touch the ground much :005:
(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa141/workingcockers/2012/IMG_5441.jpg)
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got the DVD from my sister for my 30th! Not watched it yet but looking forward to it.