Comments on: Quartering – 5th July 2009 http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/quartering-5th-july-2009/ Beauty is as beauty does Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:41:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: hd55 http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/quartering-5th-july-2009/#comment-354 hd55 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:45:52 +0000 http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/?p=1222#comment-354 Thanks Des, it often takes an observer to point out what should be obvious but isn't. Both dogs were tired - it was warm and this exercise was at the end of the session. You are right about the width of the beat too. I won't work in this area again, just hoped that it would remind Grace as to what quartering was all about. I did the same last year and as soon as we hit heather she was off. Archie is different though, and I take your point. He has yet to get on the wide open spaces so may see this narrow quartering as his purpose - I don't want that at all. I had them both out in the forest today and I don't think Archie even considers close working...although I have now found that I can turn him at 200 yards...out of necessity! Thanks for those comments - very helpful Howard Thanks Des, it often takes an observer to point out what should be obvious but isn’t. Both dogs were tired – it was warm and this exercise was at the end of the session. You are right about the width of the beat too. I won’t work in this area again, just hoped that it would remind Grace as to what quartering was all about. I did the same last year and as soon as we hit heather she was off. Archie is different though, and I take your point. He has yet to get on the wide open spaces so may see this narrow quartering as his purpose – I don’t want that at all. I had them both out in the forest today and I don’t think Archie even considers close working…although I have now found that I can turn him at 200 yards…out of necessity!

Thanks for those comments – very helpful
Howard

]]> By: glencuanpointers http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/quartering-5th-july-2009/#comment-353 glencuanpointers Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:37:55 +0000 http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/?p=1222#comment-353 Both dogs look tired to me but to train quartering in an area like this you wouldn't want it any other way. I very seldom can manage to get a dog to quarter ground this narrow, in fact even considerably wider than yours, as they tend to get too far ahead. Since you were working on spoilt ground I don't know that I would insist on the dog completing the cast ( even though eventually I would) when I got a turn around/back cast. If the dogs has turned I would send it out the otherside. Just because it's such a contrived situation but that comment could be filed under nit picking. Tire them out by all means but DON'T bore them. Don't forget your own comment misquoted from elsewhere that if you train a dog to quarter in a small field what you get is a dog capable of quartering a small field. Both dogs look tired to me but to train quartering in an area like this you wouldn’t want it any other way. I very seldom can manage to get a dog to quarter ground this narrow, in fact even considerably wider than yours, as they tend to get too far ahead. Since you were working on spoilt ground I don’t know that I would insist on the dog completing the cast ( even though eventually I would) when I got a turn around/back cast. If the dogs has turned I would send it out the otherside. Just because it’s such a contrived situation but that comment could be filed under nit picking. Tire them out by all means but DON’T bore them. Don’t forget your own comment misquoted from elsewhere that if you train a dog to quarter in a small field what you get is a dog capable of quartering a small field.

]]> By: hd55 http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/quartering-5th-july-2009/#comment-351 hd55 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:19:45 +0000 http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/?p=1222#comment-351 He was very tired by this point, actually choosing to drop infront of me without command soon after as if to say enough was enough! I was lucky with the camerawoman...its not often that she chooses to come with me, preferring to make the most of my time training by shopping. He was very tired by this point, actually choosing to drop infront of me without command soon after as if to say enough was enough!

I was lucky with the camerawoman…its not often that she chooses to come with me, preferring to make the most of my time training by shopping.

]]> By: Hilary http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/quartering-5th-july-2009/#comment-350 Hilary Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:00:38 +0000 http://ceiriog.wordpress.com/?p=1222#comment-350 My compliments to the camerawoman! Just out of interest, was Archie getting tired? His hind action looked different to Grace's, or so it seemed and I don't know if it is caused by different conformation or just being a bit tired.... Hilary My compliments to the camerawoman! Just out of interest, was Archie getting tired? His hind action looked different to Grace’s, or so it seemed and I don’t know if it is caused by different conformation or just being a bit tired….

Hilary

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