For The DOG

22/09/2026

🏆The Quillismere Gundog Challenge Working Test on Sunday 4th October 2026. 🏆

Open to all Gundogs but the tests will be retriever based.

Dogs need to have good off lead recall and be able to retrieve and deliver to hand a canvas dummy. Classes for puppy, Intro, Novice and Open.
Our Judges are Chris Johnson and Alan Harrison.

To book a place please get in touch.

10am for 10.30am start
£20 entry fee payable on the day 🏆🐾
To include Lunch

Puppy up to 18 months
Intro not to have won an award at any working test
Novice not to have won a first at any working test
Open, open to all dogs.

Near Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.

Please get in touch with us to enter. Numbers are limited.

23/08/2026

🐾We held our shoot prep training day yesterday and were lucky to have a lovely sunny but cool day. The dogs all did a brilliant job, and picked a mixture of cold game whilst practicing for different shoot day scenarios. Thank you to Kelly for her amazing throwing all day and Brennan for providing elevenses and lunch.🐾

11/08/2026

🐾How are those stop whistles!!!🐾

11/08/2026

🎼it’s a long long road….🎼

10/08/2026

🐾Due to a couple of cancellations we have a couple of spaces available for our Shoot prep training day on Saturday 22nd August 10am till 2pm ish. 🦆🐦Covering all the useful bits to get your dog ready for the shooting season. No live ammo, this day is suitable as a refresher for dogs going out shooting/picking up this year, or dogs going shooting/picking up for the first time this year.
£45 to include elevenses and two course lunch!
Please get in touch to book 🐾

07/08/2026

🐾An interesting topic for discussion🐾

Lets talk hip scores..
Please feel free to comment below on your thoughts. This post is purely a layman’s discussion on hip scoring, although any vets opinions would be amazing!

So generally, hip score means for Labradors are getting lower all the time. Although I appreciate they have risen from 8 to 9 recently.

Why is this???

Is this now due to the fact that we are breeding from dogs with lower hip scores, so the breeds hips are improving? Or, is it an unfair average with only the better scores being submitted for scoring.

Are we looking at an unrealistic breed mean? Are we at risk of more problems from hips now being too perfect? A zero hip score is now quite common isn’t it?

Or are we doing a good job and improving the breeds hips.

This post is most definitely not knocking hip scoring, I think everyone will agree that any tests carried out to avoid problems when breeding is definitely very important.

What do you all think??

26/07/2026

🐾Photos from our team event by the amazing Event Faces Photography 🐾

Photo collection by Eventfaces

25/07/2026

🐾Six teams of 3 dogs and handlers competed last night at For The DOG’s team competition. After hearing from the judges what the first two test consisted of, each team had a minute to decide which dog and handler was picking which retrieve.
Then the test concluded with a time trial, with dogs and handlers racing the clock to gain the fastest time.

A huge thank you to the Judges Alan Harrison and Chris Johnson. To kelly for her amazing and very accurate throwing and to Brennan for keeping everyone fuelled with some delicious pulled pork rolls!

We were lucky to have Event Faces Photography with us too for the evening and so there will be some more photos to follow.🐾

🏆Results🏆

1st place🥇

Stanley’s Bi***es
Laura and Stanley
Jess and Bee
Sonia and Rosie

2nd place🥈

Back to Black
Theresa and Bolan
Emelia and Freddie
Casper and Rosco

3rd place🥉

Structured Chaos
Jan and Bear
Laura and Ludo
Sonia and Mabel

4th place🏅

The Treat Negotiators
Laura and Finn
Sophie and Rosa
Laura and Jett

🏆Overall Top Dog🏆
Sonia and Rosie

07/07/2026

Date for your diaries!
🏆The Quillismere Gundog Challenge Working Test on Sunday 4th October 2026. 🏆

Open to all Gundogs but the tests will be retriever based.

Dogs need to have good off lead recall and be able to retrieve and deliver to hand a canvas dummy. Classes for puppy, Intro, Novice and Open.
Our Judges are Chris Johnson and Alan Harrison.

To book a place please get in touch.

10am for 10.30am start
£20 entry fee payable on the day 🏆🐾

Puppy up to 18 months
Intro not to have won an award at any working test
Novice not to have won a first at any working test
Open, open to all dogs.

Near Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.

Please get in touch with us to enter. Numbers are limited.

29/06/2026

*space now taken so fully booked*
🐾TEAM EVENT COMPETITION ON FRIDAY evening 24th JULY at 6pm.
We have a space for one team of three dogs and handlers due to a withdrawal. This is a fun Gundog team event. Dogs need to be able to retrieve a dummy to hand and have a good recall. 🐾