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 rhythm back.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Generic advice can only ever stay generic. The moment somebody watches you train, the answer gets specific and the stalemate breaks.
• A hot summer did not undo your training. It paused it, and pausing is not the same as going backwards.
• If our summers keep looking like this one, preparing our dogs for heat becomes part of training rather than a footnote to it.
• Small cohorts exist for a reason.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Family Dog Services six-month gundog training programme, details on the Family Dog Services website

Claire and John can be reached at claire@familydogservices.co.uk or john@familydogservices.co.uk

Bark to School, free registration at ladiesworkingdoggroup.com/bts

Field and Fireside, providing giveaway prizes during Bark to School

LINKS

LWDG Membership: https://ladiesworkingdoggroup.com/

Bark to School (free): https://ladiesworkingdoggroup.com/bts

Free content library: https://ladiesworkingdoggroup.com/free-content/

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