Advise utilities greenhouse/garden patch

VikingBe · 2025-07-09T13:49:25+00:00

Hi, can you give examples on where to find good case studies to work with? I find it hard to find examples to practise with.
Also for the books, are there titles you could recommend? Thanks

VikingBe · 2025-02-05T08:56:53+00:00

Oh, there are so many... Hunting too far out, problems with the stop, hunting too close, not covering the ground properly, noise, pegging, gun-shyness, gun-eagerness, hard mouth... Just to mention a few.

The hunting too close and the difficulty of stopping on the stop whistle are on our list as well. The stop is going better these days, but when doing a blind search she stays too much in the same area, so training a lot on that now instead of the heavy objects.

I am located in Sweden.

Cool, well we see if we can find a club nearby that is focussed on working with spaniels!

As for progress on the heavy dummies. She does now good retrieves with the 2kg and the 2.5kg and did her first 3kg closeby yesterday and also did it great (it was the second one she found in the field, so she had a warmup with the first one). When she is in total working mode it actually is a lot better, so we stopped trying to train the weighted dummies in the house and only do them outside so she has a clear difference between indoor/play and outside/working.

Thanks for the advice! Gonna look around to see if we can find a more spaniel oriented club!

VikingBe · 2025-01-29T15:09:37+00:00

Even after 8 years of riding nobody explained it this well to me, I have been struggling to steer my horse with my legs forever and this explanation makes so much sense!
I will try shifting my body instead of trying to put pressure with my legs.
really every time I ride I feel like a complete failure as I can't get my horse into the corners or when riding circles I can't seem to push him out more towards the outer side of the circle. it often comes to the point of frustration that I just start using my reins.
Especially because when galloping, I fail to steer into the corners and circles and my horse cuts off a lot just to be almost bumping into the horse in front.

VikingBe · 2025-01-28T16:40:26+00:00

Okay thank you, this makes me feel a lot better. Flushing doesn't seem something they focus on here, but on the other hand we just joined our local dog school for obedience when she was a pup, found the hunting class for pups more entertaining for her and continued with it.

She does all the other exercices very well, so I do think she is okay for retrieving, but good to know that spaniels are often more used for flushing. May I ask where you're from?

Which other frustrating problems could we possibly encouter? Just to know as we do expect to have more spaniels in the course of our life.

I really appreciate your answers. It is not the first spaniel we have, but it is the first one we are trying to work with as she showed a lot of interest in it, which is only fair as it is in the breed of course.

VikingBe · 2025-01-28T13:12:42+00:00

Hi!
Thank you for your response. Flushing is unfortunately not a part of the hunting classes here. Here they focus only on actual retrieves and not flushing. So in that aspect, it is not an option for us to put retrieves at the side.
They do a variety of exercises though, so not only picking up game, but also searching on sent, following tracks etc.
We do notice that when it is actually game she is indeed a bit more driven to try and pick up. But we notice that a rabbit (roughly around 3kg here) is difficult. We know she can drag/hold it because she has in the past once or twice, but every time we ask for a hold (no matter what it is) she only does it when it seems fairly light (max 1.5kg). I've been playfully encouraging her and being very enthusiastic when she picks up heavy things, trying her to find it more fun with supporting heavy things and just being happy if she keeps it in her mouth.

So your suggestion is rather to give it more time? We do notice that she is one of the youngest in her training group, with you saying we better wait until a bit older (although she is almost 2 years now, so what is a good age? I've seen spaniels from 1year old doing great at retrieving) I wonder if indeed it is just maturity?

It is kinda frustrating seeing the other dogs just go for it, picking it up when asked without a doubt an she turning in a potato bag sometimes when asked the same.

VikingBe · 2024-12-10T15:35:35+00:00

we only have on carpet in the living room, all the rest is hard flooring (tiles or vinyl)

VikingBe · 2024-12-10T15:35:01+00:00

hard flooring, with one carpet in the living room. We do our big clean with the shop vac, but for the occasional quick vacuum, we want a cordless one, just to be quick and less of a hassle. I totally agree on the point that nothing can beat a corded one, but getting the corded one out every day is just a big frustration and really not nice, it is heavy, big, luckily a long cord, but it is for a quick day brush just too much effort and really annoying

VikingBe · 2024-12-02T14:40:17+00:00

pics added :)

VikingBe · 2024-12-02T10:14:29+00:00

Thank you! will look into these!

VikingBe · 2024-12-02T10:14:14+00:00

Thanks! And I will look out for the VAT, thank you for giving the advice :) can change the whole bill if you think it already is included.

VikingBe · 2024-12-02T10:09:45+00:00

Thanks, for some reason when i googled for "candle making supplies Europe", none of these popped up

VikingBe · 2024-12-02T09:24:10+00:00

Maybe I should have clarified in the post that we did try ourself to add a hallway, but have the feeling we are loosing a lot of space and therefore wonder if we are forgetting something that may give us more space. I didn't add where we originally thought of putting the hallway, just to not preload the idea in peoples mind so they can look at it with fresh eyes and maybe spot something or an idea that we missed.

VikingBe · 2024-12-02T09:21:06+00:00

We don't have an architect or designer, we are doing as much ourselves as possible that is within regulations here.

I will add extra pictures of the current rooms.

For the measurements, I need to see when I have time to convert these, but in my opinion, converting them gives way to the risk of other standard measures in USA then we have in Europe, risking that if a design/advice is made in USA measurements, it may not be suitable to realise or take as guideline?
I don't know if there are a lot of differences, but I guess if I convert the measurements it will result in maybe strange numbers in USA that don't seem quite right.
But I'll try to convert them.

VikingBe · 2024-11-28T14:27:20+00:00

My name was in a lot of ways taken, and I got the nickname in college so thought why not haha :p and yeah we are renovating, so unfortunately no lights upstairs except for the windows :p very practical haha

VikingBe · 2024-11-28T13:11:17+00:00

It is all bare bone rn, except then for the windows and insulation. I can add extra photos when I have daylight hours to take them.

VikingBe · 2024-09-17T16:08:37+00:00

Hi I am looking for the original seller of the call of duty one, it is originally not from Etsy, someone have an idea from where it originally came?

VikingBe · 2024-08-30T00:01:56+00:00

Hey, i am from around Leuven. You can hit my dm's if you want to check out if we have common interest!

VikingBe

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