Training heel with the very young dog
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.
Jojo received Excellent at the Danish Retriever Club Beginner Test
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.
Training seminar with Ms. Philippa Williams
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.
Bosse wins the Working Retriever Championship in the Danish Retriever Club
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!Nessie's puppies have left for their new homes
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.Nessie has whelped
20-04-2024: On Friday 19 April Squareclose Wendy (Nessie) had eight puppies:18:00 yellow bitch, 400 gr . (Ravensbank Carrie) yellow ribbon
18:18 black bitch, 465 gr . (Ravensbank Darling Fifi) black ribbon
18:27 yellow bitch, 370 gr . (Ravensbank Scarlett) red ribbon
19:28 black bitch, 380 gr . (Ravensbank Lydia) white ribbon
19:30 black dog, 400 gr . (Ravensbank Charlie) orange ribbon
20:45 black dog, 435 gr . (Ravensbank Angus) blue ribbon
21:20 black bitch, 420 gr . (Ravensbank Serena) green ribbon
22:25 black bitch, 390 gr . (Ravensbank Naughty Nicky) pink ribbon
All the puppies are doing fine, and Nessie is great and being such a good mum!
