Back with a Bang ....After returning from a week away when all the Aytee dogs were in kennels, I took 9 month old Mavis for her first day picking up today. Mainly on the lead, she met more dogs than she has met in her whole lifetime and watched Oxo and Jerzi work all day. She listened to drives, crossed footbridges and burns, enjoyed 2 small off lead hunts and finished with 2 partridge retrieves (put out as blinds in a quiet moment.) It was a most brilliant first day which we will repeat a couple more times before the end of the season. I love to give young dogs contact with something new quite early, but its important they will be able to cope with the day and then be fully managed so that all experiences are positive ones Enjoy your dogs this Christmas !!
Mavis with Oxo watching Jerzi on a retrieve