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For all those wanting to learn or teach their dog how to hunt the correct way, why not get booked onto our Spaniel Mornig at Stubbs hall 10th March. 10 am start DN67EZ There are only 8 places to book in total and some have already booked on. Ensure you red the joining conditions before booking. What do we do on a spaniel morning? Firstly we do some very basic training tasks and as soon as Darren is happy to go we quickly move on to hunting. Demonstrations are shown with Darrens dogs then followed by each handler trying to replicate what has been shown. Hunting on your own with your dog so Darren can assess and help where required. Huntng in a group to show how important it is for a beating line to work together. The use of wind whne hunting is explained. Drop the flush and shot. Please ensure your dog is ok with shot before booking.

These are great leads to connect to your training vest or game bag. Check them out on our web site

Why not come and join in the fun with Kirkbourne Spaniels and watch this world famous show. Contact Darren for tickets £15 per person

Hey!!! dont miss out on this great chance to get 20% off all Kirkbourne hand made leads , follow this QR code , turn your camera on your phone hold it to the code and your in.

We are now into the nights where we are running out of light, so once again we are training over winter at the Upton rugby club, 6.30 while 8. Both novice and intermediate. We hope to see you there.

We have been privileged to have worked with some great shows this year with only one more to go at Doncaster shooting show at Doncaster race course. Then it's train train train. Hope you can join us in your quest to train you and your dog

If you can and have time I would appreciate your vote for me to become the gundog trainer of the year. Already we have many of you voting for me and the club, I truly appreciate what you have done so far. If you have not yet voted please use this link and vote. Thank you in advance , Regards, Darren https://www.futureevents.uk/gbsa23

I am very privileged to have been nominated for Gundog Trainer Of The Year 2023 at the Great British Shooting Awards. I would greatly appreciate your vote by clicking on the following link. https://www.futureevents.uk/gbsa23 As ever your support is always valued. This would indeed be a great start to 2023! Happy New Year to you all. Regards Darren

Coming soon to assist you in your training is our Kirkbourne training Journal. Yes you could write everything in a diary and that's cool. What stands this Journal out from your diary it helps you set out tasks from the trainers and record it along with some great features. We will not give too much away as we want it to be a Kirkbourne designed book, yes, many people will follow and copy it once they see how it works, that's up to them but we will know we made it happen. We are so excited about it and it will be published hopefully before the end of the year. We are also doing a training plan for handlers where they record in their own tailored training plan their training with ups and downs and challenges. Every week our trainer Darren Kirk will review your feedback and give you a step-by-step plan to keep moving forward or how to sort some issues out along the way. More information will be available soon. These documents are currently being trailed to ensure we get it right. So keep an eye out on fb and on here to see it develop.

We have lots of new choices of slip leads in stock, take a look and see what you want

It's time to get training, we have just added lots of one to ones for March We have also added 2 super training days for you. 19th Novice Day at Adel leeds 26th Intermediate day at Doncaster Either go on your app to book on or follow this link

I know that the shooting season is nearly over and this gives us the chance to reflect on our dogs that we have more than likely spent lots of time and money getting them ready for the field. I see the handler turn up with a young dog in the novice class with a goal to achieve great things. They turn up to training and we try to cover all aspects of training and guide them to having a successful dog in the shooting filed. We do our upmost to explain what each task is and how it is related to the shooting field. Some listen and some don’t. But we are there to assist each handler the best we can. There will always be the one who knows it all and spends most of their time using training as a social event and sometimes spoiling it for others. We do our upmost to ensure the information we give is put into practice and it shows up clear when the ones that are listening are soon moving up from novice class to the intermediate and then the advance class. We also have to understand that the dog they are training is their dog and we cannot do much about the one who decided the dog is trained enough to go sit on a peg or go beating in their opinion. After all it’s down to the handler to decide if they want to take that chance or not. I always advice people to take it steady as there is no rush. It’s harder to train a spoiled dog than one that knows no difference. I see it time and time again where young dogs are taken on a shoot because the Keeper or a friend says it will be ok it can’t do any harm. It is correct it cannot do any harm to the shoot if it goes a little wrong, however, that said the harm is shown in a dog that has to be re-trained or a worse sat on a lead with a ground spike stuck in the ground and every time a bird Is shot it half chokes itself. The first time out with its owner the dog actually does really well and the owner comes home with a smile saying the dog did not put a foot wrong. This is a normal storyline, the following time out the dog was good but not quite as good as last time but it may have just been having an off day. Next time out the dog was ok but the handler had to give it a telling off for chasing a bird or a hare. Next time out the little shit of a dog was being a total twit and the handler says the bloody thing does not deserve feeding. So why did the dog do so well at the start of the season? The reason being, the dog knew no difference and it was just another walk in the park and play fetch. Once it worked out the game it did not need the owner to assist it in its daily life occurrence. “IT SWITCHED OFF” We now have a problem where the only answer for some handlers is to start to increase the telling off to hide the lack of training. We never stop training I know that we just alter the amount required for each dog. For example a dog that has a few well trained seasons under its belt would or should require less training than a 12 month old dog. I cannot tell people enough to miss this season and you will enjoy next season better. Like I previously said the dogs belong to their owners and we can only give advice and not insist. When does the training actually truly stop? Well I feel it never does you just slow it down a little with the older dogs and spend more time with the younger ones. Reflecting on our season should give us time to think what we can improve on and where we felt we did well. We can then put our own training plan together and ensure that we cover off any issues we may have come across. Some will be saying it all went fine, maybe it did and well done to you. It’s still good to keep training and improving all areas. Have you made any plans or set any goals for 2022 and your dogs. I have and it is to do the best I can with my dogs and not stand out on a shoot day for the wrong reasons. All the best from us at Kirkbourne and good luck.

We are now taking bookings for 1 to 1s for next week please send me an e mail to request one. We will then send you our new procedures for training with regards covid restrictions. We are also still offering one to omes on lime along with the bronze assessment. Info@kirkbournespaniels.co.uk

Whilst we are all still in lock down we have to remember we have our dogs to keep us company. The sale of dogs has rocketed up as has the cost of pups. Its crazy to think that people have gone out to buy dogs just because of the lock down. A few things could happen here when its all over. People will need training or lots of dogs that have been failed by their new owners will be re homed or put in kennels. We are in a changing world amd we need to keep our eye out for these poor pups that have got out of hand because the owners thought it was a great idea. We will soon see what mess it has made in the dog world and not only ours. Take care everyone and we look forward to seeing you soon

So we are getting there , no spinning however delivery needs sorting. Holding area nice though. Nice and powerful young dog.