Cocker spaniel training

muckyprawn

Hi all,
Does anyone have any experience with working cocker bitches, I have recently got one, she is 2 year old and working fine apart from when she is on a scent and I just can't get her to stop....

Cheers

deeksofdoom

I know a few guys with cockers but the logic is the same for any dog.

Back to teaching the sit/stop whistle and the recall. If you get one of them 25m retractable leads as well as they are quite handy for enforcing the recall.

poulo6.5

muckyprawn wrote: »

Hi all,
Does anyone have any experience with working cocker bitches, I have recently got one, she is 2 year old and working fine apart from when she is on a scent and I just can't get her to stop....

Cheers

you need to get back to basics with her. sit, stay, heal and so on. it can be dun out your back garden where there are no sent trails.
a couple of short retrieves in a controlled environment to get her steady.
repeat same when you get her out to where you are walking her.
when you walk her dont let her renge out to far, call her or a pip of the whistle when she goes to far for you.
just be consistent with your training and she will be fine. all this should only take you 5-10 min before you go for a walk and then intermittently threw your walk,
best of luck

dicky82

muckyprawn wrote: »

Hi all,
Does anyone have any experience with working cocker bitches, I have recently got one, she is 2 year old and working fine apart from when she is on a scent and I just can't get her to stop....

Cheers

am i being a complete sceptic here in my thinking that people who are giving or selling dogs from say 18 months and up are doing so because they have seen problems in the dog that they cant rectify or dont like? i was chatting to a couple of people on this recently and they were of a simillar opinion, dont get me wrong i know there are alot of genuine people out there who maybe selling dogs due to lack of time to commit etc but if you were to believe that some dogs are as good as sellers say they are you would wonder why they are selling them at all?

EastTyrone

dicky82 wrote: »

am i being a complete sceptic here in my thinking that people who are giving or selling dogs from say 18 months and up are doing so because they have seen problems in the dog that they cant rectify or dont like? i was chatting to a couple of people on this recently and they were of a simillar opinion, dont get me wrong i know there are alot of genuine people out there who maybe selling dogs due to lack of time to commit etc but if you were to believe that some dogs are as good as sellers say they are you would wonder why they are selling them at all?

totaly agree with ye dicky, especially when you see in the adds "ideal for working or family pet" i tend to stay well away lol i would only buy a pup at around 8 to 10 weeks or a similar age
like you seriously would wonder why a man would put the effort into training a dog and then selling it, unless hes a gundog trainer

elius

I having the same issue with my own at the moment. She will come back but i have to let a shout as she wont return to my whislte. What i will say is during the summer there is that many smell's that its not that she cant hear me she is just that engrossed in hunting that she just not listening. During the winter she was spot on little whistle and she would be back....

Its like a kid on a computer you call there name 3-4 times before they actually pay attention to you because there concentrating that hard on the game.
When the weather cools off and there's not half as smells in the air she might be slighly easier.

People prop wont agree but thats what im putting mine down to..:p