The objectives of the Scheme, which has its own website, www.flatcoatrescue.co.uk, are to place in loving, caring homes, Flatcoated Retrievers that due to unfortunate or unforseen circumstances require rehousing and to assist, where possible and/or appropriate, with welfare matters concerning Flatcoated Retrievers. Please note the Scheme will assist any Flatcoated Retriever and its Owner/Breeder, in confidence, whether or not the Owner/Breeder is a member of the Flatcoated Retriever Society….
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National Training Programme
At the Field Trial Sub Committee meeting in September 2003 it was agreed that a national training programme for puppies, new and inexperienced handlers should be set up; it has been very rewarding to see some of these handlers achieving awards in working tests for the first time and ‘being bitten by the bug’. Professional trainers/experienced field triallers sympathetic to our breed have been approached to run puppy and beginner training classes, for flatcoats only, to teach the correct foundation of gundog work and good handling techniques. The classes are kept numerically small (4 – 6) so that handlers can…