My foster dog Rocket tried GRC for the first time this evening with our local club @ridgeline_grc If you’re not familiar with GRC it’s a dog sport that combines all of the athletic activities that bull breeds love along with training control and social responsibility. Rocket is still looking for a home!

I went to Forrest Micke's Edinburgh workshop last week. It was awesome! I feel like it really made me focus on the foundations - marker discrimination, handling etc. It will improve my training I'm certain. Plus, there were a bunch of cool people in the room so I had a lot of great conversations. Hope you've all been up to cool stuff too.

@Nick Benger or anyone else do you have any tips for resource guarding? My foster pups are only 5 weeks and they are savage around food. Growling and couple of full blown fights grabbing each others throat. I feed them separately now and they even growl at me going past or taking the empty dish away. I normally do a food scatter when I need a break from them and ended up having to peace keep that too. I’m doing some hand feeding to start with but apart from that I’m stuck because I’ve never seen it that bad. Video of the little monsters looking all innocent 😂

I haven't seen these for a while, @Nick Benger I haven't had any notifications, either. 🤔

My new dog, Lyon, arrives on the 4th of May, all being well. Ahead of his arrival I bought Alex Lato's book, Braveheart, it arrived today and is jam packed. I bought this book because the breed I've gone for, Cocker Spaniel, can be a bit on the soft, sensitive side, so an early focus on confidence seems like a good move. I also want to up my play game and he will be high drive so the more outlets I have at my disposal the better. I will be training him towards gundog working tests and whatever else he wants to get involved in.