Working together, we agree your training goals, these typically cover a wide variety of obedience issues. If you have a specific query not mentioned, do get in touch, I’ll be happy to help.
Location:
All classes are run at a 250 acre private livery estate located at…
Mote End Farm, Totteridge [map link]
Woodland Walk
Varied, challenging and fun training walk through ancient wild woods, bridle paths and a secret meadow, including heel work, seen and memory retrieves, steadiness, hunting in cover and lots more.
Patience is a Doggy Virtue
Super brain concentration training session to teach your dog to be steady, when to move and when to remain still, including emergency ‘stop’.
Look, Listen & Trust Me
Training your dog to take directions, stop, left, right, back and forwards.
Recall
Strategies and training exercises to motivate your dog to come back to you, away from other dogs…or squirrels…or going to play with strangers… or running off with someone else’s ball!
Walk with Me
Focused and fun training session to teach your dog the true art of correct ‘heel’ behaviour with and without the lead.
Picnic-Apocalypse
Learn how to confidently control, manage and redirect your dog’s focus for happier and stress free Summer walks to avoid any embarrassing picnic apocalypse!
Leap of Faith
A fun workshop training you and your dog to trust each other, including seen and memory retrieves over obstacles; logs, jumps, ditches, through woods and over water.
Hunting for Treasure
Teaching your dog to use their nose to seek and find, building on your bond, teamwork and partnership. Using the benefits of brain training and scent training.
In the Hand
Fun workshop teaching your dog to pick up an item in their mouth, hold on to it and bring it back to your hand – no more bending down to pick up or lost tennis balls!
Introduction to working gundog workshop
With special guest trainer, Riverlily Working Dogs
It is a great pleasure to welcome Abbie and Riverlily Working Dogs at Mote End Farm as our visiting special guest trainer. Matlock and I owe much of our passion and gundog training to Riverlily – an excellent gundog training opportunity when they visit.
Riverlily train dogs and handlers to go out in the shooting field, beating, picking up and on the peg. Including owners who want to go down the competitive route to enter gundog working tests and trials and pet dog owners who are training for fun, to build a great bond with their family pet.
Abbie and her team combined have many years of experience working their gundogs in the shooting field and have won many awards in working tests and trials. Riverlily regularly organise charity events and ran the Euro Challenge at The Game Fair 2022 For more information please see their website and Facebook and Instagram
- Working gundog training – harnessing your gundog’s natural instincts; scenting, hunting, retrieving:
- walking to heel
- stopping on the whistle
- retrieving
- delivery to hand
- Positive training methods – fun and motivational teamwork to build on your bond and your dog’s motivation
- 10:00 to 14:30 – including breaks for both dogs and handlers
- Parking and toilet facilities
- Cost: £150
Spaniel – Beginner Gundog Workshop
With special guest trainer, Nick Ridley
Nick Ridley is a highly respected gundog trainer with specialist experience working with Spaniels. A renowned dog photographer and author of several books on photographing animals and training gundogs, including the highly successful Spaniels which has gone on to be an international best seller.
Nick has been involved in the gundog world for over 30 years and as well as photographing gundogs working in the field, he has been gundog editor for both the Sporting Shooter and Sporting Gun magazine and also regularly writes a gundog training blog for Härkila and has made numerous radio and television appearances. He has trained several his own gundogs and works them throughout the shooting season either picking up, beating or shooting over them.
Nick has produced a series of training videos following the training of two of his own Cocker Spaniels; Ted – Training With Ted and Percy – Percy’s Progress These and more, can be found on Nicks YouTube channel.
- Training especially for Spaniels – harnessing your spaniels natural instincts;
- quartering, scenting, hunting, retrieving
- steadiness, stopping on the whistle
- delivery to hand
- Positive training methods – fun and motivational teamwork to build on your bond and your dog’s motivation
- 10:00 to 15:30 – including breaks for both dogs and handlers
- Parking and toilet facilities
- Cost: £150
