Yet another delayed blog this time due to sick children.



We have been beset by nasty bugs this week number 2 son was very poorly over the weekend and now towards the end of the week number one son has been sent home from school early.



Jynx has been her usual bouncy self, we are still struggling with her play biting though it is improving very slowly. It is still mostly directed at number one son although she does still do it to anyone in her path when she gets excited.



We are still going out at 6am ish every morning and meeting the usual suspects, all of which are very friendly and put up with Jynx's boundless energy - I very often liken her to an ever ready bunny!



We have continued with our training on walks and at home. I read somewhere that the most important thing when training a gundog is recall recall recall. So thats what we have been working on mostly.



Her recall is mostly reliable but when she is distracted by another dog or person it sometimes go out the window and even my little bag of Tesco value chicken roll cannot tempt her away.



On Saturday we went to Salcy Forrest to walk with a pack of dogs from the dog training club, there were approximately 19 dogs and we walked for 2 1/2 hours and it was a great experience and everyone was very friendly. My hands were very sore after though as Jynx pulled most of the way. We even swapped dogs for a little bit.



I have ordered a gundog training book which is specifically for spaniels so that should be really helpful in giving me the basic information I should need.



Hopefully it wont be so long till my next post!