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Yes, the attention thing is sometimes an issue, I regularly remove him from the pack to do stuff one on one. Though, it’s certainly been the case with dog 2&3, they learn from each other, particularly stuff like walking as a team ‘to heal’.

@@northlawgundogs5254 Definitely. A friend of mine told me about two dogs they had while he was growing up. The eldest died and they realised the youngest was useless at heel walking solo; it had just been following the other!

Colins videos are brilliant. Watched them from the start with the auld fella and genuinely one of the reasons i got my Lab and have subsequently worked her in the beating line and done a little bit of picking up. He does deserve more views and subscribers, hope his subscribers keep going up. Quite therapeutic aswell, his choice of background music is always good. As someone who doesnt really like human beings and would rather spend my time away with my dog, Watching someone spending time with just him and his 4 dogs i enjoy. Also picked up a few training exercises thst Colins done that i then incorporated into training my own dog.

Awww shucks, thanks Boys….can you feel the heat from my red face from there. Truth be told I’d love to make a living from anything to do with dogs. When you see some of the ‘dog trainers’ out there 😱 I wonder if I could make a go of it .

@@northlawgundogs5254 Colin I'd say diffinaitly yes, I know what you mean about other trainers , you have the skills and you only have to look at your dogs to see.

Your not seeing him when he is being a pain in the ass 😂

Thanks Jean, aye, he struts about (or waddles about) like he owns the gaff !

I don’t have anything no but I think, a few days ago anyway, the breeder of my pup had a couple left. I don’t want to post her contact details on here but if your on Instagram contact me and I will private message you back with her details.

I will look into the auto caption thing again, people and Ai have issues with the accent ... plus I am not the clearest auditor at the best of times !! Thanks for your support.

hi again, the 'subtitle' function is working on my videos in the 'settings' facility' but like I say not totally accurate in picking up my accent.

Hi Jean, food wise, they are on kibble, nothing overly expensive £22-25 / 15kg sack price range ! Dr Johns range, Skinners field and trial in the game season. What ever they have there is quite often chicken off cuts or pigeon breast (I’ve a friend that does Pest Control for farmers) but probably the main thing to add is salmon oil, more in the winter for their joints. I never over feed in the off season always watching their condition, and bump up portions when they are working. Gus is naturally very lean, the amount of people that tell me I should be feeding him up is unbelievable…..the same people that’s dogs couldn’t run the length of themselves never mind come close to what Big Red does (aye, I’m easily riled when it comes to people questioning my boys condition!😂). Sonny is petite but developing a nice strong chest and shoulders….too early for Wee Enzo but he has a healthy appetite! Thanks for your support 😘

Hi Colin thanks for that. I have used dr johns silver before. And skinners muesli. Thanks again. Jean

Yes, Lab Retriever.

Thanks Peter, the reason I persist (thus far anyway) with training him to ‘get out’ was an instance last season when the labs were out picking runners then a 3rd bloody runner dropped close to us and took off. Wee Sonny was the only tool in the box I had left, he seen it and I sent him, he took the line spot on but got so far out after and proceeded to slow up and circle round! Young dog in his first season and all that, confidence issue🤷🏼 I should have tried what you said today ! A fair distance he did go out though like you say. He is a braw wee guy, I should maybe just embrace what he excels at. It was good seeing Big Red back on song, his heads been up his ar$e recently. Thanks for your support Peter.

Repetition in a nutshell. They see deer quite often, not as close as that mind you. The black lab was the only one to ever chase when he was a youngster, he was made aware in no uncertain terms it wasn’t acceptable and his never done it since. When the other dogs came along if we came across deer it was a case of timing from me to growl “no” at them if they looked like they were too interested. It’s a case of putting the dog in the situation to put the correction into them….encouraging the dog to do wrong to make it do right! In the case of chasing the rabbit if I’d seen the rabbit I would have growled at them before they chased, I was talking at the time so missed it. But like I say they or the spaniel in particular ’did wrong’ and the situation gave me a chance to see if he would stop on the whistle under severe temptation. Also bare in mind they’d been scenting rabbits seconds before so the Springer was ‘wired’ already. He is a real steady Spaniel, I was really pleased at his response to ‘the stop’. To get that kind of steadiness it is purely a case of exposing them to the temptations as often as possible. The black lab is prone to ‘running in’ on a shoot if he’s not kept in check, but he was used to being the only dog for a few years, there is a certain amount of jealousy, he thinks every bird should be his. It’s all pretty interesting working a team of very differently wired dogs.

Never gave him an inch from day one Wendy, sit/stay was started as soon as I got him home, manners training as much as anything 😂using a pip of the whistle. Now at just gone a year old he’s great on the stop whistle, the same pip I used from day one. If I hold him for any more than a few seconds he knows to park his bum. He’s been a treat so far….but still waiting for the wheels to come off…as everyone says will happen 🙄

Stop being ignorant then. Hes speaking perfect english

No, but, yeah I know I should!

@@myphotographyworld9780 beautiful red lab you have there

Yeah I will 👍