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FIELD TRIAL LABRADOR RETRIEVERS

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05-10-2024: We cannot say that we ourselves have much time to go shooting, but we often go out with the dogs to pick up at estate shoots. Today we were at Erholm Castle, and the team had nine labs and three cockers. Out of the labradors eight of them were from Kennel Ravensbank.

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29-09-2024: It is always a satisfying milestone to pass, when you complete the official aptitude test with your dog in first attempt and with a good margin. This was exactly what Ms. Susanne Hansen did with Ravensbank Banksy (Banksy) today. With this result, Banksy has now qualified for participation in the Danish Retriever Club working system of tests and trials. Banksy is 1 year and 5 months old. Warm congratulations to Ms. Hansen with this fine result.

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23-08-2024: Much inspired by the training seminar with Ms. Philippa Williams, I have given priority to the training of heelwork with the young Ravensbank Carrie (Carrie). To Ms. Williams this has the highest priority in the functional training of the puppy, and when you know the importance of heelwork as a resource in a gundog, her giving priority to this makes very much sense. So after the seminar I decided to devote time to training heelwork with Carrie, and I have made a Youtube playlist with the bits as I have trained them. This is partly inspired by the valuable thoughts presented by Ms. Williams, and partly combined with my traditional shaping. Click here to see the playlist on Youtube

Carrie is 12 weeks old in the first videos and 16 weeks old in the later ones.

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21-08-2024: Today Mr. Mogens Aagaard passed the DRK aptitude test with lovely Ravensbank Artista (Lili). Very warm congratulations with having qualified Lili to the DRK working system.

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21-08-2024: Today, our own Ravensbank Jo (JoJo), received Excellent at official Beginner Test. This is at test with two dogs being tested at the same time, doing walk-up with forward and backward marks, a drive with a mark and a blind, a directional search within a specific area, and also a water mark. Jojo participated with Ravensbank Bruce (Bruce) handled by Ms. Pia T. Christensen, who also received Excellent.

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27-06-2024: For those who do not know Ms. Philippa Williams it goes to tell, that she is the European key figure to admire when it comes to positive gundog training. Not only is she extremely well educated and carries long experience as top handler herself, but moreover is it a feast and very enlightning to watch her give a practical guidance to the positive training of our dogs. Ms. Sanne Amnitzbøll at Sannes Hundecenter, had invited Philippa to throw a four day seminar, and Søren participated on theory-day (day one) and puppy training (day two) - at which we were fortunate enough to participate with nine weeks old, Ravensbank Carrie (Carrie).
It should be said, that Carries participation was cleared with Philippa who said, that her young age only meant that we only had ruined her for a week. The puppies are born learners.

So what did Carrie get out of it..... Hmmmmm - obviously not as much as any older puppy would have, but at least one thing clearly came with her home. A gigantic socialization event. Seventyfive people clapping, laughing and cheering. A highly invovled Philippa communicating lively over the outdoor monitors, and not the least other handlers, puppies and dogs who were everywhere. Carrie responded to all the turmoil with utter calmness, and we are very proud that she could stay in the training for as long as she actually did. Thank you very much to Philippa for this excellent seminar which gave loads of ideas that should find their way into our training. And thanks to Sanne for taking the risk and setting it all up.

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16-06-2024: DKFTCH DKBRCH DKWTCH SEJCH 3RM22 RM24 EV24 Squareclose West (Bosse) has today won the Danish Retriever Cup which is the dummy-based test held over two days for leading open class dogs from Scandinavia. Very warm congratulations to Ms. Charlotte Rasmussen with her wonderful dog!

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15-06-2024: Five of the puppies have gone to existing puppy buyers, two are with new puppy buyers, and one is staying with us. Seven puppies are in Denmark and one is in Austria. We would like to express how grateful we are to our puppy buyers, for showing us confidence by picking a Ravensbank puppy.