Valley Spaniels

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Eddy 7months old having a hunt.

Young eddy 7 months old..He’s coming on now thinks he’s going to have some power this lad so pleased with him.

Pippa

Is the such a thing as a perfect dog? Absolutely not. After having a season picking up pip became too handler reliant. Her hunting went downhill which has always been a strength of hers. There is always room for improvement and that is what summers for. You never stop training

Eddie

Young Ed

From a dog that was allowed too much freedom and had no interest in the handler

From a dog that had too much freedom and no interest in the handler. To one who would start and work and become a team

Bobby 8 days in

Bobby 8 days in. Not doing bad to say he didn’t even know what the whistle was. Peg dog in training

Busy busy bees at VS head quarters Sheps been knuckling down with Eddie. I’ll pop a video of him on soon. I have been securing sponsorship for derwent valley Gundog display team as well as having the best time watching Tommy grow 🥰 But here we have Bobby. Bobby is going to be a peg dog. He has been shooting but he’s been a peg dog for guns 1-10, if you know you know 🫣 Anyway back to basics for Bobby. Steadiness is the key here as he is already a keen receiver. How many of you can say you dog will NOT give into temptation 🤔

Kennelled dogs are unhappy dogs!

Kennelled dogs are unhappy dogs! All kennelled dogs do is bark! My dog would never settle in a kennel, she’s used to the settee! What absolute rubbish! Here’s little Molly proving them wrong! House dog for all intents and purposes, yet has take to kennel life like a duck to water for her 2 weeks boarding! All 6 kennels are open and they can either lay in the garden or stay in bed and Molly has chosen to stay snuggle up to Judd and Lottie

Partridge pen

Partridge pen ready for the Derwent Valley Gundog Display Team scurry events 😁😁

Yogi- not even 24hrs in

Yogi not even 24hrs in 😌

Yogi

Here we have 2 yr old yogi in for heel work and recall. Let see how we get on 🙂 - 💥 not for sharing 💥

To a lot this may just look like a puppy playing in the grass… Eddie is in fact not just jumping in and running around he is learning to hunt. Using that incredible nose that dogs are blessed with he is trying to find his rabbit ball. Shep has conditioned Eddie from 8 weeks old to now 3 months that when they go out it’s great to stay with him as it’s fun and good things happen. Off camera I am stood with 2 other dogs and Eddie couldn’t care less. Him and Shep have built a bond during the months Eddie couldn’t go out to now starting to work as a team. As Shep has put the foundations in place Eddie will work for Shep and not for himself

At The Game Fair — Proud doesn’t cut it. Little Pippa WINNING the BASC - The British Association for Shooting and Conservation scurry. 1st 🥇 on multi- pick - 1 seen 1 blind and 1 memory Joint 1st🥇 on pick&mix - 1 seen 2 blind with a bogey dummy added in An amazing achievement for 1st time out playing with the big boys 🤍🤍🤍

Charity day with the derwent valley team at Ashby show. Raising £660 for the air ambulance. Little pip the overall winner in the scurries 🥇 pocket rocket 🚀 Red arrows ✈️ Lancaster Bomber ✈️ Really good day.

A question we keep getting asked ‘At what age do you start training?’ Our response is always the same ‘The day you bring them home’. Obedience foundation training starts right away. Why? In the simplest way. It is easier to training a dog with no bad habits formed. All of it is incorporated into play for the puppy. All fun and no pressure ‘My dog is 2 years old has no recall with distractions and pulls like a train. Where do we start?’ ‘Back to basics. If your foundations are not 100%, all other aspects will fail’.

And that’s a wrap 💥beaters day💥

This is fern 15 month old springer in for residential training for 4 weeks. Her owner brought her to us for steadiness training on the whistle as she would lay down and creep back towards you on the stop whistle at distance. Also her hunting had no pattern to it meaning she was not covering the ground properly and potentially missing game on the ground basically hunting for her self and not for the handler. we have now got her hunting in a pattern and on point on the whistle and gaining confidence. More videos of fern coming up on blind and seen retrieves at distance. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Pack training. What 3 S’s separate a normal dog to a gundog? 1- stop 🛑 2 - steering 🛞 3 - Steadiness This is a simple exercise which is so valuable when having more than one dog either hunting or picking up 

Due to a couple of our regular clients being signed off, we have a couple of spaces available for training next week. Message the page for details

Little play with the pack. I’m like a magpie when I see new items. This is the original clone cock phesant dummy from Dog & Field ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️