Cheshire K9 Training

17/10/2026

Out working the boys today, perfect day for it !

16/10/2026

Our Wednesday bronze sniffer dogs searching and indicating on scent tins this week in novel areas

15/10/2026

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14/10/2026

14/10/2026

Our UK bronze scent detection dogs doing searches on various items for their bronze grade tests

12/10/2026

Agility …..

I am seeing more and more posts of so called “agility classes “ being run by local clubs and they make my heart sink!!

Dogs being taken over equipment on leads, running over pieces of handmade wooden equipment, even solid hard plastic waste pipes buried into the ground to keep them from moving. Small dogs jumping heights for large dogs and large dogs jumping heights for small dogs which is just as bad. Jumping big thick heavy wooden horse poles instead of safe plastic lightweight poles.

This is an accident waiting to happen, so dangerous for injuries to dogs. I am a Royal kennel club agility judge and course planning, lines for the dogs, correct equipment and even the surface they run on is so so important.

Hard plastic Tunnels buried into the ground would be like a dog running into a concrete barrier if they come at it from a wrong angle, jumping over wooden heavy poles that don’t fall if they knock them can cause terrible injuries, launching off pieces of equipment without being trained to exit them correctly can cause long term damage to a dog. But yet I see these videos day after day and it makes me so sad that dogs are being subjected to these risks and owners are total unaware of the risks involved all they see is fun!

Please if you are going to go to agility classes make sure you find a club that the trainers either compete themselves or judge, make sure the equipment is true regulation agility equipment and hasn’t been thrown together in someone’s shed. When a training club buys agility equipment a full course can cost In excess of £10,000 and there is a reason it’s so expensive because it’s SAFE!

If you are going to a club that doesn’t have the regulation equipment, that your trainer doesn’t compete then I would rethink your membership and find a club that will know how to keep your dog safe from injury during training.

Fun agility is fun and I understand it has its place but it still needs to be safe for dogs and handler

11/10/2026

Beginner gundog Inca negotiating her first jump on a blind retrieve…. She smashed it !

11/10/2026

Beginner dog Inca working on negotiating a jump on a blind retrieve, she smashed it!

11/10/2026

Gundog classes in the sun this morning

Intermediate dogs working on stop whistle, left, right and push back cues

Beginners working on Heelwork, stays, marked seens, stop whistle and negotiating a jump on a retrieve

Well done all a great morning

28/09/2026

Sunday training

5:30pm

Wow!! You were all amazing last night , busy class tonight as we had two extra dogs who are coming to our 6:30pm class next week so you all did so well with the distractions of the other dogs and people. But as we had great focus from all the dogs we covered so much! Which means lots of homework this week

* “Watch” cue for eye contact
* “Take” cue for food manners
* Training dogs to sit for their food by holding bowl over head and waiting for the sit before feeding
* recalls
* sit stay
* sit
* down
* stand
* Heelwork on lead

6:30pm
*Heelwork on lead
*Heelwork off lead with sit downs and stands straight by your side
*recalls
* impulse control greeting people and dogs and passing people and dogs

7:30pm
* impulse control with other dogs as we struggled with this tonight
* D/C distance control in stand position to stop the creeping