Dill Has A Job

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Dill Has A Job; Starting September
Topic Started: Feb 8 2008, 07:08 PM (306 Views)
RJL	Feb 8 2008, 07:08 PM Post #1
Chatterbox Posts: 1,387 Group: Full Members Member #179 Joined: January 25, 2006	A fortnight ago, Dill and I were kidnapped by a crowd of friendly beaters. Actually, we walked past and I jokingly asked if we could join them and they shoved a flag in my hand and adopted us for the day. They even bought me my lunch and drove me home at the end :) Poor me - spending the day surrounded by lovely men and working dogs :P Anyway, Dill wasn't phased by the gunfire, the flags or the other dogs, although he found it hard to stay quiet when we were just standing in line waiting to start at the beginning of each drive. He loved travelling in the pick-up. I kept him on the lead during the drives, just to be sure he was under control. It was a great exercise in socialising with other people and dogs and learning to focus on me with lots of other exciting stuff going on. I let him off in between drives and he was really good. We've been invited to come & join them next season, so I now have to get him really steady with birds and used to working close to me. :yippee: I'm able to drop him when he's running away from me now too, so when it gets a bit drier, we are going to play with the sheep again too.



zandd	Feb 8 2008, 08:00 PM Post #2
Moderator Posts: 22,632 Group: Moderators Member #48 Joined: February 5, 2005	Well done Dill - he's come on such a long way under your care and tutelage.Well done both of you :yay:



hannahb	Feb 8 2008, 08:11 PM Post #3
Chatterbox Posts: 1,612 Group: Full Members Member #475 Joined: June 3, 2007	he really is a super dog, congrats RJL :yay: :yay:



sammie204	Feb 8 2008, 09:21 PM Post #4
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 2,577 Group: Full Members Member #146 Joined: December 5, 2005	Well done ! Sounds like you are going to have a lot of fun ! :D



ClaireS	Feb 8 2008, 09:48 PM Post #5
Moderator Posts: 10,446 Group: Moderators Member #113 Joined: September 8, 2005	What a clever boy you are Dill :wub:



BorderDawn	Feb 11 2008, 07:51 PM Post #6
Moderator Posts: 1,900 Group: Moderators Member #36 Joined: January 12, 2005	Thats brilliant, well done! I am taking Orey to do some "mopping up" after the shooting season ends in a week or so, we are going Ratting! :D



RJL	Feb 12 2008, 11:47 PM Post #7
Chatterbox Posts: 1,387 Group: Full Members Member #179 Joined: January 25, 2006	I've got so much work to do over the summer :yikes: with him though, because I want to make absolutely sure he will drop on the whistle anytime & anywhere. Slowly but surely is the way forward... My ambition is to get his brakes working so well that he will drop even when he's just flushed 2 pheasant and a snipe all at once - as happened today on a farm visit and he was stopped only by a dry stone wall because he still is under the deluded belief that if he launches himself skyward with enough force, he can fly! Stupid dogbot :doh: One of my friends has a patterdale that she takes beating and we are going to have training sessions some evenings now it is getting lighter.



RJL	Oct 27 2008, 01:49 PM Post #8
Chatterbox Posts: 1,387 Group: Full Members Member #179 Joined: January 25, 2006	:yippee: We went beating on Saturday! Dill was off-lead almost all day. I was going to keep him on during the 1st drive, but after about 2 minutes of pushing through the wood, I set him free, put the whistle in my mouth and prayed!!! Anyway - he was good :) He worked nice and close and actually, didn't do much hunting out a lot of the time, as he was being all pastoral and listening for the whistle, so it looked impressive when he sat & turned & recalled................until on the way to one drive he saw the hare and if a dog could don spandex and start singing 'Waterloo' (as in cup!) :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: He was off!!! However, I was pleased because he came back after only 1 field! By the last drive, he was getting a bit overwhelmed and I realised he had stopped really listening to the whistle, so he went back on just for the last bit. Afterwards, he found a partridge that the picker-up had missed! I'd just tried to call him back as he's squeezed through the sheep-netting around a wood, but then someone else noticed he'd found the bird! The funniest thing was when we were walking back to the vehicles along the river bank. It's tidal so things get washed up and Dill found an old football and kept positioning it just in front of everyone, trying to get them to tackle him :rolleyes: I was really pleased with him :wub: apart from the fact that being so tiny, he managed to wriggle under the seat of the pick-up we were riding in and pull out a rather large and rather ancient dog chew. Twice in the night I was woken by really frantic yapping and he shot like a rocket down the garden because his guts were rather poorly :unsure: Can't wait to go again :yippee:



Lu20	Oct 27 2008, 01:53 PM Post #9
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 4,194 Group: Full Members Member #423 Joined: March 9, 2007	RJL Oct 27 2008, 01:49 PM :yippee: We went beating on Saturday! Twice in the night I was woken by really frantic yapping and he shot like a rocket down the garden because his guts were rather poorly :unsure: Aww bless. Sounds you both had a most incredible day - would love to see Dill 'doing his job' :yes:



Tafia	Oct 27 2008, 02:38 PM Post #10
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 5,822 Group: Full Members Member #134 Joined: November 17, 2005	Dill really is one lucky dog living such a varied life.



hannahb	Oct 27 2008, 05:30 PM Post #11
Chatterbox Posts: 1,612 Group: Full Members Member #475 Joined: June 3, 2007	:yay: for Dill and RJL



zandd	Oct 27 2008, 07:43 PM Post #12
Moderator Posts: 22,632 Group: Moderators Member #48 Joined: February 5, 2005	What a fabulous day out for both of you.Well done Dill.



Red Rascal	Oct 28 2008, 06:09 PM Post #13
Chatterbox Posts: 863 Group: Full Members Member #646 Joined: April 15, 2008	Well done Dill, sounds like you both had a great day. :)



HundenruheHaven	Nov 9 2008, 09:08 PM Post #14
Chatterbox Posts: 632 Group: Full Members Member #700 Joined: July 15, 2008	I'd love to have seen that in person. I don't think anyone hunts that way here...does anyone know if they do this in the States?



Tafia	Nov 9 2008, 09:13 PM Post #15
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 5,822 Group: Full Members Member #134 Joined: November 17, 2005	No idea Jodie. I wish we had things like your competitive earth dog and barn hunt type competitions though, they always sound great fun. Have you ever tried it with your rat terriers?



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