Ditto the last comment! Riley is my first spaniel who is now 4yrolds. I think we’ve done quite well considering my total lack of experience! A few ‘failed’ dog trainers later (who profess to be non force/positive trainers and are clearly not at all) I have found your amazing videos and I’m so grateful. Lots to learn an excited to get my girl into better habits and increase the bond we have. THANK YOU! Do you have an Instagram account we could follow? Hayley 😊
I have my first spaniel puppy! A lovely little black and white cocker. I have had 4 flat-coated retrievers and currently have my 4th who is nearly 2 years old. I love your videos! They are helping me freshen up my training exercises and helping me get tuned to to what spaniels are all about! Thanks for sharing your training journey on RU-vid.
I agree with so many of the comments I find your content so helpful, and I love that you don't edit your training sessions,, so when something doesn't go to plan you show how you handled it. It's so genuine, your voice is delicate but clear. You are a lovely dog handler; keep on sharing please. 😊😊
Jan 2024 Very pleased I found your videos! Best I’ve seen! Down to earth approach, easy to follow and excellent demonstrations, nothing wacky, training with understanding of the breed and lots of fun! I feel energised to review and improve my training with our 3yr old cocker spaniel, Charlie, who has been hard work but i think we’ll get there. Thank you, I’d love to know if you run courses!
Love this. I have trained PWDs for water work for over 30 years and this mirrors my philosophy. I now have a 3 mo. Working Cocker. This is great video for us! Thank you so much.
Really interested to see how she is/was on a lead at this age. My puppy Otis is just over 4 months old and he is starting to pull alot. Do you have any loose lead videos or heelwork videos whilst on the lead and how does this pan out when just walking down the street and not training in a field? Any help appreciated. Inwant my children to be able to walk him without being pulled over.
This is a really helpful video thank you! I’m getting my puppy next month. Do you have any recommendations for first few weeks and any key book recommendations for the stage I will be at? Would Mission Control be the best one to get?
I've been enjoying your videos after I recently discovered your channel; they're very helpful. I have a 20 week old wcs and have been using some of your techniques to help me with training him. He's responding nicely to the heelwork video this week which is helping when we go out on the lead as he's a bit of a puller (which is nice for me when we're going uphill lol). Do you have a recent code for the JR Pet Pate please?
I’m really glad you’re enjoying the channel and finding it useful! Unfortunately JR have paused their referral scheme at the moment so I don’t currently have a code available.
@@SpanielTrainingDiaries no problem. Just thought I'd ask. Just bought myself a clicker we're starting clicker training tonight in the garden. I'll use salmon skins as my high value reward until I get the jr pure pate. Thanks again!
So I’m never that orescripted eith my training sessions, as it really varies on the dog, how they are doing with the behaviour and what stage they are at with their training. Generally speaking I tend to have a few behaviours that I’m focusing on at a time, so I used to have a board up and each week I’d write up our main training focuses for each dog, and I’d put a tally against them every time we covered it in a session to help keep me on track. I found that approach works for me as I still have variety for both me and the dogs, but I’m also not overwhelming them by having too much going on or losing sight of what out main focuses are at that time if that makes sense?
hi, first of all, many thanks for all the great video's that you are sharing. They have helped me a lot in training my (now 1 year old) springer spaniel with a positive and rewarding approach. Now, I was wondering about the way you deliver the treats: sometimes you feed them from your hand, and at other times you throw them on the grass. What do you do which one, and why? Thanks! Katia from Belgium
Excellent! I use a similar approach with retrievers. The retriever sits quickly and square with no verbal command from the handler. The dog is thinking a quick sit will trigger the retriever reward: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J1cPpWXeFnc.html
You can get both from Muntjac trading, this is the link to the marking sticks: www.muntjactrading.com/products/marking-stick I made my placeboards which I found to be the cheapest option, you can get homemade ones online or Muntjac do Cato boards which do the same thing: www.muntjactrading.com/products/cato-place-boards-turf?_pos=1&_sid=5208ec5f3&_ss=r
Just thought I'd let you know that I've had to rehome Millie my 9mth old working cocker spaniel 😢 she was just to much for me, especially with my mental and physical health problems, the physical issues unfortunately only occurred a couple of months after I got Millie, My gun dog trainer Jan Gough found Millie a lovely home with experienced gundog people who have got 2 cocker Spaniel Spaniels who go on shoots, so just for now I won't really want to see you beautiful training dairies I hope ivy continues well with her training and your new baby gives you lots of enjoy and happiness
This video i found to be really helpful. I’ve recently started beating with my 16 month old springer. I’ve never done anything like it before and regularly watch videos to help me learn. I will definitely use this with my dog as he tends to run into brambles with his head up. I’m just wondering if you have any videos or tips you would use to get the dog to walk to heel. As I’ve tried a couple and he tends to be really stubborn. Thanks
Oh how odd I found them on this link, so you can see if that works for you, they call them marking sticks: www.muntjactrading.com/products/marking-stick
Hi, firstly love all the videos you’ve posted. Learning a lot as is my crazy spaniel 😂. Wondered what you’d recommend to work on distractions during recall, his recall is good provided there’s no other dogs or people about… 😂. Not sure if I should go back to using a long line with either people about or another dog and work on it that way?
Ivy's doing really great board work considering she's not done any for ages, my Millie is 7mths old so early days however Millie is ultra distracted by everything, how did you get ivy to concentrate on you as she does? Also how did you get ivy walking to heal? Have you any videos on heal work and do you PM looking forward to seeing your next training session 😀
Because rewarding with food is so easy I would probably try to see if different types of food rewards get more success when out and try delivering the food in different ways. A bit like us they will value some foods more than other, so for Ivy she’ll work for kibble in most scenarios but if our working or training in an environment with live game she’s needs a higher value reward, so we often use pate. If that didn’t work then I’d just use whatever the dog finds rewarding. When thinking about rewards I focus more on the rewarding the dog with the opportunity to demonstrate a behaviour that they find rewarding rather than the food or the toy itself. So behaviours that dogs will find intrinsically motivating are all things that form part of the predatory sequence so stalking, sniffing/hunting, chasing, catching, tugging, dissecting and eating. So finding a way to reward your dog with the chance to perform one or more of those behaviours, maybe chasing a ball, hiding a toy for them to hunt for, playing with a tug toy or you etc. there are lots of options (some easier to do that others depending on the environment you’re in) but you just need to work out what works for your dog and then utilise that. I hope that makes sense. 😊
Thanks Nick! So when training a completely new behaviour I’d start of by training it in an environment the dog finds less distracting, so often dogs find being at home or in the garden an easier environment to learn in. Then when you’re starting to increase the environmental distractions the things that initially come to mind that help get and keep focus are that I would make sure that you are giving the dog time to settle into the environment before starting the session. I would make sure that the criteria I set is appropriate for the dog to help them get lots of success as that will help them kept engaged, we always enjoy doing the things we’re good at. I’d make sure I was rewarding the dog in ways that they really enjoy. I’ve just replied to another comment on this video about reward behaviours, so check that out. And at that age it’s also particularly important to make sure you’re keeping the sessions short and giving them enough brain breaks. I do have some video on engagement games and heel work here are a couple of links that you might find interesting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zsk4HW28kJw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vlAmdwRXsJg.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6siu3RR0Fc0.html I hope that all makes sense. 😊
Hi many thanks for all your help, support and advice, how many training sessions do you train ivy and for how long for each session, do you incorporate training with walking and running about in fields/parks etc 😀
@@nickevans3190 I think the important thing to remember is that every interaction we have with our dogs it’s teaching them something. But when Ivy was a pup every outing tended to be more structured training whilst I was developing her foundations. Now she’s older and given my circumstance she we probably do 2-3 structured training sessions a week they can vary from 10/15 mins to an hour depending on what we’re doing and what she’s able to cope with, and the rest are more like what people think of as a traditional dog walk. But there are “rules” so that they don’t go completely rouge, and I’ll add in a few things into the walk some for example recalls, stops, heel work, the odd retrieve etc.
Great to have you back, Indie my springer is now almost 2 years, I've used a lot of your training to help me with training. I'm delighted to say she had her first retrieve on the last weekend of the season here in Ireland. Congratulations on your new arrival.
It great seeing you back with a new video and a new baby 👶 I hope you'll be making more new videos in the near future, I love the fact that you're not afraid of showing us some of the mistakes you've made in training your dogs 😀 I have a 7mth old Cocker Spaniel called Millie, she bright as a button and in training with a local gundog trainer who told me about your RU-vid channel 😀 I'm watching all your older videos getting some hints + tip 😀
Thank you! We should be doing some more videos in the coming weeks and months so keep your eye’s peeled. 😄 I know I found it so disheartening watching training videos when Tia was younger as every dog appeared to be perfectly trained already, so it made me feel as though I was the only one who had training sessions that didn’t go smoothly. So when I made the channel it made me want to make sure that I showed our true training sessions, warts and all! 😂 Good luck on your training journey, sounds like you’ve got a good’un!
Hi many thanks for your quick reply and it's great news about your baby and I'm looking forward to seeing your new videos Millie is a sweetheart I got her to help my mental health, but she's Sooo hyper active more than others WCS I have met and she will not settle have you any tips to get her to settle down abit and she really doesn't like going into her create? I have thought about rehoming her but I love her to bits and it would break my heart if she went I have owned 2 others dogs and knew WCS were energetic but Millie seems extremely hyper have you got any suggestions that might help?
Ho I don't know what your rules are with PM contact etc but if you're happy it would be great to PM you but if not I totally understand and will be more than happy watching you in future training videos 😊 I'm just trying to get some extra help with my Millie thanks again for sharing your training love watching them 😊
Just found your channel. Loving it so far. I mainly do dog agility but took my working cocker for an instinct test and he loved the hunting so much I now need to learn more about it. I participated in a training day and got some decent ideas of behaviors that are needed but went looking for a more structured way to start. Thank you for the effort on the videos!
Thank you so much for your kind comment, I’m really glad you’re enjoying the channel so far! Good luck with your training, and if you ever have any questions feel free to ask. 😊
Mirroring what others are saying and good to see you posting again. Really enjoy the contents and always gives me new ideas to try although you generally have a much higher success rate than I do. Keep up the good work and look forward to the next one.
Very nice to see your new video and your new addition (little helper). Congratulations on the birth of your daughter (I’m assuming because of the pink)! 👶
If you weren’t using food as a reward, then you just need to adapt the exercises to suit which ever type of reinforcement you’re choosing to use. So for example, with the game where she’s chasing after the food, you could use a toy or a ball in that instance. You could use fuss and verbal praise for some of the exercises. You could also release them out into the environment which is a really good one for the mooch recall in particular. Some are easier to adapt than others, but you just mix it up to suit the rewards that work for you and your dog. Both my dogs have a good delivery of the dummy and don’t spit it out, so that’s never been an issue for us. I think the key with that is just making the criteria clear to the dog when teaching a delivery, so they understand that it needs to go in your hand before any reinforcement will be given.
