EXPECTING TOO MUCH FROM MY SPRINGER SPANIEL ?

Am I expecting too much from my Springer, Sonny, yet again he falls down on a long memory retrieve. Should I let him excel at his natural abilities and leave the long stuff for the Labs ?

[@chrisdickson4728]

Another good one. Looking forward to seeing youre newcomer soon. All the best.

[@user-pq3fl1bw9b]

Lovely video ❤
I wonder if you could add captions for the deaf of hearing?
I would really like to know what you are saying about training the dogs.
Thank you friend.

[@northlawgundogs5254]

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.

[@northlawgundogs5254]

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.

[@petercresswell5402]

Enjoyed the video
Think you're right, pushing a spaniels out to 250-300m is no mean feat What I might have tried was to also drop a dummy just shy of the brow. Sent him out to pick that, then immediately sent him out for one of the others hoping he'd draw confidence from the successful pick to push on further. But getting it out as far as you did is good even if he failed to pick
He's a bonny dog, seemed to enjoy himself in the woods. Shoot over mine so they rarely go that far for a fallen bird, more likely a really long retrieve would be on a runner where they've taking a line. Horses for course and all that.
Anyway always enjoy your videos long or short, also (nowt to do with the dogs) I enjoy the music you have on the video too.
All the best, cheers.

[@northlawgundogs5254]

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.