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Found It, Fetched It - Gundog Training for Family Life

The Ladies Working Dog Group

Every fortnight, the Ladies Working Dog Group sits down with gundog experts, guest trainers, behaviourists and fellow handlers to talk about life with a high-drive gundog or working breed — the wins, the stuck weeks, and the stuff nobody warns you about when you bring one home.This isn"t traditional gundog training, and it isn"t generic pet advice. It"s for women handling dogs bred to work, raising them as family pets, who want guidance that actually fits that reality.Part of the Ladies Working Dog

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00:22:28

217. The Art of Doing Nothing

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2026/10/02

Your dog is flat out at home for about ten minutes a day. The rest of the time they're on your heels, bringing you a toy or sighing at the back door, and the minute you take them somewhere new they behave like they've never left the house. LWDG Group Expert Claire Denyer and I get into the art of doing nothing, and why the dog who can switch off at home is the dog who switches on for you when the lead comes out. You'll hear why an obedience stay at the pub isn't the same as a settle, the mistake

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00:25:20

216. The Dog Training Problems You Can Ignore, and...

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2026/09/17

So there's a thing I see all the time with our members, (and if I'm honest, I do it myself) , which is you look at your dog and see the bit that's not quite working, and you just go and do training that is working instead. Foundation certificate, there's a wobble in something and the answer is "we'll go to novice anyway," and the wobble's still there; it never went anywhere, you just stopped looking at it.This week I LWDG Group Expert Claire Denyer, and I pull that apart and work out where the line

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00:24:26

215. Hot Weather Dog Training: What to Do When It Is...

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2026/09/04

Half past nine at night and it is still too warm to take them out. The ground is baked solid, the tarmac has been a hot plate all day, and every group you are in is telling you something different about water, about heat, and about whether you should be training at all right now. LWDG Group Expert Abi Reed has spent this whole summer working around exactly that, getting up at twenty five to five to beat the sun and moving everything else indoors. She walks through what heat is actually doing to your

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00:10:44

Special Episode BTS: Dog Training Mindset Workshop

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2026/08/23

Before we start, this one is a bit different. This is the assembly from 'Bark to School', our free four days of training that started this week, and it's recorded by Emma Liddell, the mindset coach inside the Society. I'm putting it out publicly because it's the piece I'd want every woman with a working dog to hear, whether she's at the event or not, and especially if she's ever stood in a training class watching someone else's dog and quietly written herself off. If you want to join the rest of the

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00:21:26

214. How to Get Your Gundog Back on Track After a...

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2026/08/21

Every plan you had for your dogs this summer is probably still sitting where you left it, underneath thirty degrees of heat nobody could train through. That is not a lost season. It is a pause, and LWDG Group Expert Claire Denyer has a lot to say about how you pick it back up. Stay for the heat conversation too, because if our summers keep doing this, getting our dogs ready for warm weather stops being optional. And Bark to School kicks off Sunday. Free, all of us, four days. Come and get your

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00:46:46

213. Ticks, Lyme Disease & What Your Dog Needs You to...

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2026/08/07

This episode of Found It, Fetched It features pharmacist and Lyme Resource Centre trustee Arlene Braley and vet Ian Wright (chair of ESCCAP) discussing tick prevention and tick-borne disease risks for dogs and people. Arlene shares her son’s long, severe illness after an unrecognised tick-borne infection, motivating her Lyme charity work and emphasis on knowledge and early action. Ian explains UK tick species and life cycle; peak activity now spans much of the year; practical avoidance (staying on

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00:32:15

212. When Is Your Dog Ready for a Charity Working Test?

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2026/07/17

Abbie Reed of Riverlily Working Dogs joins Jo to break down what a charity working test actually involves, from the admin behind the scenes to what your dog needs to be able to do on the day. They talk through the six tests you're likely to face, how judges assess you differently to an official working test, and why your own mindset does more heavy lifting than your training log.In this episode:What separates a charity working test from an official Kennel Club test, and why unregistered and

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00:28:56

211. When Your Dog Is “Too Difficult” for Training

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2026/07/03

Jo and Claire Denyer tackle one of the most common worries handlers carry quietly: the belief that a dog needs to behave better before it is ready to see a trainer. They cover why the opposite is true, what so-called difficult behaviour is often really communicating, and how the most challenging dogs frequently become the dogs of a lifetime.In this episodeWhy your trainer needs to see your dog at his cheekiest, not his best behavedThe warning moment most handlers miss in the seconds before their dog

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00:41:37

210. Ten Years In: The Award, The Mud, and What We'd...

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2026/06/12

Ten years ago, the LWDG was bringing in about two hundred pounds a month and felt more like a nice idea than a business. This week marks ten years of the LWDG and ten years of Claire Denyer's Family Dog Services, so to celebrate, Claire turns the tables and interviews Jo in a business blind date. They talk about the exact moments it stopped feeling like a hobby (a national award for one of them, a very muddy fall on her bottom for the other), the bit of the job they still find hardest, how training

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00:25:10

209. Why Your Recall Broke (And It Started in the...

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2026/05/21

You trained it and you were proud of it. Then one day, in front of people, your dog looked straight at you and carried on sniffing. Recall going wrong feels personal, like the dog is calling you a liar. In this conversation, LWDG Group Expert Claire Denyer explains why recall almost never breaks where you think it does. Claire walks through how to rebuild it from the ground up, why the cheese-word panic never works, and how to use a long line as a way to talk to your dog rather than a way to hold

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00:24:48

207. What is Predation Substitution Training (And...

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2026/05/08

If you've ever thought that giving your dog a flirt pole or a tug toy would stop them chasing squirrels, this one's going to shift something. Predation substitution training sounds like the answer, give them an outlet for all that chase drive. But as Claire Deyer walks Jo through in this episode, it's not that simple. Here's what actually works, why outlets alone fail high-drive dogs, and when PST becomes part of a real strategy instead of a band-aid. Claire's spent a decade rehabilitating dogs that

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00:20:42

207. Fear Periods in Puppies and Adolescence

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2026/04/24

Fear periods are a normal part of puppy and adolescent development, but most handlers go into them underprepared. They know the phrase but not the timing, the signs, or the right response. In this episode, Jo Perrott and LWDG Group Expert Claire Denyer break down both fear periods in practical terms: what they look like, when they happen, and how to work through them without making the dog's experience worse. Claire covers the difference between healthy exposure and flooding, the role of eustress in

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00:20:31

206. 10 Lessons From 10 Years of LWDG

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2026/04/10

10 years. Thousands of conversations. One truth: you're not alone in all of this. Jo walks through the 10 lessons from a decade of watching what actually works with working dogs. Why your dog isn't difficult, just a gundog. Why more walks make them fitter, not calmer. Why consistency isn't about being strict. Why the dog you have right now is already the one you wanted. This episode is for anyone who's felt stuck, ashamed, or like they're the only one getting it wrong.Thanks for being here. If this

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00:38:09

205. Knowing Your Dogs Limits

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2026/03/27

Knowing when to stop isn't giving up. It's one of the most important skills you can build as a handler, and this week Claire and I are getting into exactly that.There's a real difference between pushing a dog and protecting a dog, and the line between them isn't always obvious. Claire talks about stretching a dog's ability, that productive discomfort where a dog is learning something new, might wobble a bit, might show a flash of an old behaviour you thought you'd cracked months ago. That's not

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00:26:29

204. The Van, the GunDog, and All of Europe

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2026/03/13

What if your dog didn’t have to stay home? What if the van, the open road, and your best mate could all go together — across the UK, across Europe, all the way to Croatia? This week I had the loveliest chat with Karen Shepherd, one of our brilliant Society members, who has been taking her Springer Spaniel McCoy all over Europe in her motor home. And I mean all over... Belgium, Croatia, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia. The dog has a better travel record than most people I know. Now you might

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00:30:53

203. The Walk You've Been Avoiding Is Actually Your...

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2026/02/27

Does your heart sink every time a bird flushes, a squirrel darts across the path, or a dog bolts past on the beach? You're not alone. And you're definitely not ruining your dog.This week Joanne is joined by LWDG group expert Claire Denyer to tackle one of the biggest myths that keeps working dog owners stuck: that being around wildlife makes a high-drive dog harder to handle. It's actually the opposite.What you'll hear in this episode:Why "my dog would be amazing, he chases everything" is the wrong

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00:38:39

202. When Ideology Gets in the Way of Training the...

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2026/02/13

Dog training advice is louder, more divided, and more confusing than ever.In this episode of Found It, Fetched It, Jo and Claire tackle one of the biggest problems facing dog owners today, rigid training ideologies that stop people from seeing and supporting the dog in front of them. From “never say no” to “only train this way”, they explore how blanket rules and online dogma leave handlers overwhelmed, hesitant, and often stuck with behaviours that could be resolved far more simply.Together they

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00:13:01

201. What Changes When You Finally Speak Gundog -...

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2026/01/27

If training feels hard work rather than teamwork, this episode is for you.In this final live of the week, Joanne pulls together everything we’ve explored and explains what actually shifts when you stop guessing… and start understanding what your dog is telling you.This isn’t about better commands.It’s about better conversations.In this episode, we explore:Why training feels exhausting when you don’t share the same “language”Living with a high-drive dog without understanding their operating system is

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00:12:56

200. Why Direction Comes Before Calm in High Drive...

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2026/01/26

Why Direction Comes Before Calm in High-Drive DogsIn this Monday Morning Mindset episode, Jo explores a truth that changes everything for owners of high-drive dogs:👉 Calm doesn’t come from slowing your dog down.👉 Calm comes from direction, boundaries, and leadership.If you’ve ever found yourself saying “I just need them to calm down” — this one’s for you.What This Episode CoversWhy “waiting for calm” doesn’t workTaking your foot off the accelerator without steering doesn’t stop the

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00:17:15

199. From Passenger to Driver - Supercar On A...

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2026/01/25

If you’ve ever felt like your dog is making all the decisions while you’re just trying to keep up… this episode will land.In this live, Joanne explains one of the biggest missing pieces in gundog training — where the handler actually sits — and why so many capable, caring owners end up feeling out of control despite doing all the right things.This isn’t about being firmer.It’s about timing, influence, and learning how to step into the driver’s seat.In this episode, we cover:What “passenger mode”

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