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🐾Scurry Dog Foundation Skills.

GunDog Games for Active Pet Dogs.

Inspired by the skills of working gundogs, Scurry Dog gives active pet dogs of any breed and age the opportunity to develop valuable life skills.

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🐾 Scurry Dog Foundation Skills

Open to pups and pooches of any breed and age, Scurry Dog Foundation Skills offers weekly classes with the perfect mix of fun and encouragement. These sessions help your dog grow essential life skills such as impulse control, focus, confidence — and yes, heel work ,which takes a little time to master but makes walks so much more enjoyable.

Training That Fits Into Everyday Life

Turn your walks into training opportunities by practicing what you’ve learned in class. For example:

Hide a ball.
Cue your dog to find.
Watch them use their incredible sniffing superpower!

Building Strong Foundations

These skills don’t just make training fun — they:

Strengthen the connection between you and your dog.
Improve your dog’s ability to focus during training.
Confidence, growing self assured through fun challenges.
Provide the basics needed to progress toward Level 1 games and beyond.
Connection, strengthening the bond between you and your dog.

And yes… there are seven levels to each game, giving you and your dog plenty to aim for as you grow together.

Examples of 3 games and how they relate to gundog work in the field.

ADVENTURE BEGINS

Spaniels working with their handlers to push birds forwards in the grass

NOSE QUEST skills In the field searching for birds .

The dogs work close to handler, driving birds forwards.

A labrador working with a handler to locate hidden balls

NOSE QUEST~ Searching skills near to handler

In this game the dog searches for balls or dummy balls.

A spaniel carrying a branch

RETRIEVE~ on walk you dog may retrieve and carry a stick.

Foundation skills focus on picking up and retrieving lots of different things, balls, dummy balls, gundog dummy.

A Labrador retrieving a dummy whilst also jumping over a fence

RETRIEVE ~ My own dog Ziggy

Retrieving a dummy whilst jumping a fence.

Dogs of various breeds

Labradors and spaniels are tipical working breeds seen on the field.

ANY and ALL breeds can learn the same skills

Labrador retrievers waiting beside their handler

Labradors are typical working breeds seen on the field.

Labradors are used mainly for retrieving work.

A spaniel following a scent in the grass

Sniffit trail, encourages dogs to follow a scent trail.

Dogs playing scurry dog games at a taster workshop

Spaniels are used for scent work jobs, in the field they track injured birds.

Have a go gundog games available at the next TASTER WORKSHOP.

FUN STARTS HERE

Guilden Sutton CHESTER

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