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Nicola Grellis

Nicola Grellis

Based in East Devon, Nicola Grellis has an enviable reputation as one of the countries leading experts on breeding and training gun dogs. With more than thirty years experience, her dogs are trained to field trial standard. Visit Nicola’s website to find out more.

Nicola Grellis

Diary of a Gundog Trainer: August

Posted on: August 27 2013

When the shooting season came to an end on 1st February I breathed a huge sigh of relief. I had thoroughly enjoyed the season but both the dogs and I were tired and I was looking forward to a quiet summer when I could spend quality time walking and training my dogs and catching up on all the chores that were stacking up. How wrong I was! It’s been a very busy six months and already I am starting to get us all fit again ready for our first day in October.

Group photo of all the dogs

Saffron

I have had to make the very painful decision to retire my 13½ year old bitch - Saffron. I was lucky enough to take her on a few days last season but her eyesight and hearing have deteriorated and she is bit wobbly on her hind...

Case Study of Gundog Training: Scrumpy the Dog

Posted on: July 24 2013

Where have the past 6 months gone? It seems no time at all that I was teaching Scrumpy some basic  manners and starting to take her out and about. Now she is 10 months old and is no longer a young puppy, in fact, I find it hard to tell her apart from her mother when they are running together across the fields.  Scrumpy has a patch of white on her chest which Pimms doesn’t – that helps when they are returning to me!

Scrumpy training - learning to stayScrumpy training - the gundog learning

 

Scrumpy learning to sit and stay in various places

Scrumpy spent the autumn learning the basics such as sit, stay, walking to heel on and off the lead and the recall which is very important as I want to train her to be obedient at all times. I have also given her...

Meet Professional Gundog Trainer Nicola Grellis

Posted on: July 24 2013

I got involved with gundogs when I married a gamekeeper. Dogs were a necessary part of the working day.  Prior to that I had grown up with German Shepherds which my parents bred when I was a kid. Dogs have always been a large part of my life. I have been training gundogs for about 28 years - I started with Holly, a black labrador who would have been good if I had known how to train her. Holly thought she knew better then me (she was probably right) and was very independent and a bit of a wild child. A few years later I acquired Barley (a yellow labrador) and decided that I needed help in order not to make the same mistakes again. I joined various gundog clubs and learnt from watching and...

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