When do I compete with a dog....
A gentleman asked me whether I had trialled Osprey (pictured left), a one-and-a-half-year-old male (born 24-april-2014).The Field Trials in Ireland and the UK are all about ELIMINATION. If you do something wrong, then you are going home. I have had trials with really experienced dogs, and gone home without getting a retrieve --- IF the dog failed his first retrieve.
So as far as I am concerned I would not compete with a dog unless
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