Occasionally you will just get a bit of individual heel work with a retrieve. I've had a "Walk forward until shot fired then retrieve the dummy" rather like a single dog walk up. I've also had heel between two markers, stop on the second marker, dummy thrown in front to be retrieved by hand and on the way back to the dog another dummy thrown to one side to be retrieved by the dog. So no, not at every test, but you must be prepared for a full 4 dog walk up.
double marked retrieve is two thrown dummys you send him for them out of order?
With a double you might be detailed which to retrieve first, you might not. Normally when training we would retrieve the first thrown first, but there is nothing to stop the judge asking for the second first!
Make sure your dog will work on a variety of ground and with strange dogs. If you have always trained in the same place and with the same dogs, chances are that the all new stuff will send everything to pot.
Just bite the bullet and have a go. I always treat it as a marker to weedle out the dogs weak points and go home and work on them - if dog does well that is a bonus. At the end of the day - it is a nice day out.
If you want a very relaxed test, try the Game Conservacy Tests, they tend to be really, really relaxed.
Sherry
Pretty much as Matt decribed up here. Not many of the tests up here have walked 4 in a line thou. Sometime in pairs. But most of them dont. Most are stand by the judge and send your dog from there.
That isn't right Becs. I am afraid they just do not update there website. I am not sure of the best way for you to find out about them. They hold one in West Wycombe, Bucks that I am sure JohnW will know about and they hold another one around the Charlsbury area I think.
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