has he started pointing ?

A most interesting spell for Tresallier dogs. Our time at the drier has finished, but before it did I had a great opportunity to run Fresco at a cock pheasant. I had spotted it strutting its stuff across the short grass and took him down wind of it, by this time the bird had tucked itself down and out of sight. He was intent on having a pee and generally bimbling about when all of a sudden he spun into a point with his mouth working to stimulate his vomeronasal gland. A great breakthrough.

The birds have settled in well. We now have a good supply of grower pellets, something of a saga getting them here!. They have an aniseed additive as well as medication so with luck we should have a relatively easy time. the real problem at the moment is the number of people who walk their dogs and when it is pointed out to them their dog is in the wrong place only reply they will 'try' to keep it under control. Have these people never hear of a lead?

We have volunteered to 'dog in' for the Longwood keeper and have been given a stretch of boundary to cover. Our first outing there were clouds of partridge an pheasant on this boundary - so a very necessary job. Catja slipped into her old ways and chased a bird across the field - see our exploits at Vimpelles earlier in the year. We had another trip out in the evening when on going home the road was littered with partridge sitting on the hot tarmac. Imagine my surprise and pleasure when taking her around my pens this evening she worked diligently and flushed birds out of the shrubbery in small batches sitting and not chasing Laughing . Maybe there is hope for her yet. Fresco also had a small run and went on point to some poults that I had seen running into the hedge. The other day I had left him sitting at the pen gate, but he had decided to get up and explore got 'hit' by the electric fence, this sent him back to the car and also made him wary of being near the fence. I had to take time to take him back to near the wire and make him sit a while. He was not happy and I hope this does not affect his attitude to birds in the future.

Entries for the HGS working test have trickled in steadily and we have quite a good card a good result considering a test has been cancelled this weekend for lack of entrants. Disappointing that there is not one Brittany. (I do not feel it right to enter under judges I have chosen and on my own ground)