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| Working Gundog News is now updated on our blog on a daily basis, click on each month for an update December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 A Chance to win 5 pairs of tickets for the Sandringham Game & Country Fair
Congratulations to Bel Grundy & Labrador Retriever Harley Qualifying fo the Game Conservancy Final at the Midland Game Fair in September, both Bel & harley having been training at Working Gundogs for 12 months
July 2009
Field Trial IRONY ~ I was asked to delete some club events from the web today as a club secretary did not want to advertise a field trial to the general public through fear of anti's appearing on the door step! "As if keeping the the door closed to member only activities & information is going to resolve those stereotype issues! ~ better openness in the field trialing world, will benefit its support long term. The solution is to educate & help those who are willing to listen and learn; those who are not willing to listen in the main have already closed their minds - Restricting information flow, will only serve suspicion and hinder popularity of field trials. The only way our sport will survive is to make events enjoyable and accessible without closed doors and self interested protectionism.
Stewart North with Russlayne Bracken "Poppy" is awarded with SECOND at the Midland Gundog Society Puppy Working Test Packington park, Meriden, Warwickshire. Test Report, Award, Running Card
 | Professional Gun Dog Training in Northumberland with George Ridley Over the last few years Stewart North has been taking young retrievers to Northumberland for advance retriever training on wild rabbits which has contributed to the success of many field trial winners and good shooting dogs, it is consider to be some of the best out of season training teaching very high standards of heelwork, steadiness, handling, distractions and most important the hunting of dead or wounded game over very demanding countryside. |
Kennel Club Education Program Judging Seminar & Exam on J Regulations 2nd August 2009, Chorley Lancshire with John & Sandra Halsted
June 2009 Congratulations to the following Students who attended The Gundog Club Assessments in Leicestershire Grade 1 Distinction to Mrs. P Linsdale with English Springer Spaniel Henry, Grade 1 Distinction to Mr. T Everitt with Cocker Spaniel Silas, Grade 1 Merit to Mrs. J Jex with Labrador Retriver Daisy, pictured with Assessor Mr. Stephen Robson
We have a vacancy for a Part Time Kennel Assistant at Great Glen, Leicestershire duties involving kennel cleaning, feeding and supervision of exercise, please register your interest via our contact tab.
May 2009 AV Working Gundog Novice & Puppy Test at the Market Bosworth Show Sunday 5th July 2009 entries close 28th June 2009. Info & entry form
Stewart North Wins with Yuletide Mistletoe "Rauri" Labrador Retriever owned by Mrs. J Wicks at the Mid Norfolk Gundog Club Novice Working Test held at Sennowe Park, Guist, Norfolk More Photo's
Hunting or Obedience, what should come first when training AV Spaniels, it depends on what you want to acheive, "My first AV Spaniel Test" confirms my thoughts on where The Gundog Club training program stands on these issues.
April 2009 Mrs. J Wicks Yuletide Mistletoe "Ruari"was handled by Stewart North at the Midland Gundog Society Novice Working Test on April 25th at Home Farm, Hints by kind permission of Mr J Fairclough the Judges for the day were Mrs. S Richardson, Mrs. C Munn & Mrs. J Bowie this event was well organised and attended by 25 Competitors. This was Ruari 2nd working test and scored marks as follows Test 1 Blind over Water 19/20, Test 2 Double Mark near reeds 16/20, Test 3 Water Mark & Blind Retrieve with back up dog 19/20, Test 4 Double Blind on track in Woodland 20/20, Test 5 Short Rolling Mark on hill & Blind around bend on track 19/20, Test 6 Double Mark with back up dog 16/20. Weakness demonstrated on double marks, but good performance overall. Results
 Byrkleypark Rose 11 Weeks more pictures available on flickr
 Byrkleypark Nelson 11 Weeks
New Puppies Byrkleypark Nelson & Rose SIRE FireflaxFabriano DAM Northglen Lilly both parents have good hips and clear eyes, we are prepared to sell, pedigree and copies of health certification available on request.
- Jane & Chocolate Labrador Retriever "Pudding" having a rest on the Water Training Day at Great Glen.
- Jane needed a break after being rescued from the quick sand, Pudding always willing to provide a service to her handler
 Seven dogs recently attended water training at Great Glen everybody had a great time and learnt something new about their dogs, a range of difficulties covering ability to enter water, varying depth of water, cross water, steadiness to other dogs on water, difficult entry to water and exit from water, moving water, shaking problems, holding dummy problems, distractions on water, crossing water from short distance and long distance, distractions on recall in water.
East Anglian Labrador Retriever Club have issue Winter Newsletter covering Membership fees, AGM, Open show, New code of Ethics & Filed Trial Results
East Anglian Labrador Retriever Club have issued 2009 Working Test Schedules for Puppy, Novice & Open
New Web Site has received a Google page rank of 1/10 within 6 weeks of operation and is now listed under working gundogs on the front page of all the major search engines Google, Yahoo & MSN which cover 95% of search requests. Web site traffic has increased from 5 to 70 visitors per day over this short period. This has been achieved without spending 1p on advertising; we look forward to developing a gundog blog, video and pod casts towards the end of the year. Client feedback has been tremendously helpful.
March 2009 NORTH WESTERN COUNTIES FIELD TRIALS ASSOCIATION have issued AGM Notice
NORTH WESTERN COUNTIES FIELD TRIALS ASSOCIATION have issued 2009 Field Trial schedule for Cocker's
NORTH WESTERN COUNTIES FIELD TRIALS ASSOCIATION have issued 2009 Field Trial schedule for Springer's
NORTH WESTERN COUNTIES FIELD TRIALS ASSOCIATION have issued 2009 Field Trial schedule for Retrievers
Is your Dog suffering from Separation Anxiety, Gun Dog Training will help provide the solution!
 Lets just chill Out!
 Grade 2 Assessment Day
Congratulations to Sara Barrows & Harley, Richard Bradford & Toby, Colleen Whittington & Drake and James Gilings & Indy in passing their Grade 2 Assessments with Merits, each canididate has work tremendously hard to achieve this success and now have a greater understanding of their gundogs strengths and weaknesses. Well Done! Kennel Club Gundog Working Tests for any variety RETRIEVERS, SPANIELS & HUNT, POINT & RETRIEVE BREEDS on Saturay & Sunday 6th & 7th June 2009 at Chatsworth Estate, Derbyshire Entry form
Workinggundogs goes live on Twitter " Why do people want to twitter" Simplicity has played an important role in Twitter's success. People are eager to connect with other people and Twitter makes that simple. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. Our clients can now stay it touch with each other,. with the simplest of messages.
Regional Gundog Event Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust to held on 14th June at Thriplow, Cambridge Entry Form
Welcome to new client Mr G Heron & Dexter English Springer Spaniel
Regional Gundog Event Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust to be held on 12th July 2009 West Wycombe Park Buckinghamshire Entry Forms
 - The pet food manuafacturer pedigree has ended more than 40 years of crufts sponsorship following claims the dog show promotes unhealthy breeding methods, Sponsorship of the event, which takes place in Birmingham this March, is said to worth up to £500,000 a year. The BBC documentary, pedigree Dogs Exposed, showed a prize winning Cavalier King Charles.
RSPCA withdraws from Crufts show The RSPCA is to withdraw from Crufts dog show amid concerns about health of pedigree animals The charity says "morally unjustifiable" breeding practises lead to disability, deformity and disease among show dogs
Assessment date change ~ all those clients wishing to take graded assessment tests, this will now take place on the saturday 14th March at Glen Rise Click here
Recent Water Training was enjoyed by a number of clients, identifying several weaknesses for future training, problems encountered were refusal to enter water, failing to cross water, steadiness to a fallen dummy on water, steadiness to other dogs on water, failure to retrieve on water, lack of confidence to running water, steep banks and obsticles. By the end of the training session all the dogs from a variety of gundog breeds had successfully retrieved from water some with more confidence than others. Mr. S Hare's English Springer "Dillon" had a great training session completing all the tasks asked of his dog.
February 2009 Congratulations to Mrs Hemingways bitch "Ash" mated with FTW Northglen Charlie, and gave birth to 3 puppies by cesarean section on the 11th Feburary, one puppy needed nursing with formula milk, now all 3 are now feeding from mum and growing at a rapid rate. Its worth mentioning that this mating, was difficult and a conventional tie was never acheived, despite several attemps. Matings are not always straight forward, the breeder was advised to consult her vet to investigate and monitor the progress. It was this care and attention, which secured a successful delivery, the vet stated that she would have not been able to deliver them herself as the birth canal was too narrow.
 FTW Northglen Charlie was mated with Mr Tophams "REMY" Kennel name Kayteens Amanda, Royston Herts on 6th Febuary Puppies due 10th April 2009
- Prospecitive puppy owners are advised to make their own enquiries regarding temperament, pedigree and health screening, Northglen Gundogs have have only provided the stud dog. Copies of pedigree and health certificates have been given to the breeder.
- Please inform the breeder this lead enquiry was generated by Workinggundogs Gundogs, this notice should not be treated as a recommendation, we cannot warrant any dog which has not been bred or trained by us.
Mr. F Thompson Anslow Park, Staffs, owner of Northglen Lilly Eyes Clear Hips 3/3 Sire FTCH Goldscleugh's Butler of Shadowbrae Eyes Clear Hips 3/5 Dam FTW Farmclose Meg of Northglen Eyes Clear Hips 4/4 gave birth to 8 puppies. The Sire FTW Fireflax Fabriano Eyes Clear Hips 4/6 Opitgen & CNM Clear
January 2009 Wild Boar Hunting in France in the district of Lorraine Robert, Bill and Stewart enjoyed some french hospitality, shooting wild boar over 3 days, both Stewart and Robert had the opportunities and "Missed" but we all managed to shoot a Roe Deer each, which was returned to the UK and made an excellent venison casserole
  December 2009 - Annual Gundog Club training stats 77 Gundog Club Students, 4 did not start, 6 did not complete the course, 3 not ready prior to the test, 3 could not take assessment due to illness/in season, 61 completed the assessment and 56 passed.(91% success). 9 passed, 20 merits, 27 distinctions.
November 2008 - Welcome Mrs S Burrows & Harley Hungarian Wire Hair Vizsla
October 2008 French guests Jean Paul, Pascal & Christophe arrived for a long weekend of "La Chasse" we enjoyed game shooting at Hollies Farm as guests of Mr. W Brookes, followed by Deer stalking at Southwick Wood as guests of Mr. B Richardson and then onto Stapleford Park, for some Clay Targets and Archery as guests of Mr. R Harris.
September 2008 - Welcome Mr A Doran & Bow Labrador Retriever
A very enjoyable trip salmon fishing and stalking at Dalnamein, Blair Atholl as guests of Simon & Amanda at kindrochet Lodge, the scenery, the food, the hospitality, the shopping, the friendship and the "parties" just fantastic
  One of the largest Red Stags shot in 2008, 10 pointer larder weight 19 stone
June 2008 Yuletide Mistltoe (18th Months) Owner Mrs J Wicks and handled by Mr S North gained a Certificate of Merit at the UK Kennel Club Novice Working Test held at Chatsworth by the kind permission of the Duke & Duchess of Devonshire. A great achievement for the owner, handler and dog as this was the dogs first novice working test.
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