What are RATGs? Retrieving Ability Tests for gundogs explained

December 2022 | Working and Hunting

A Murray working at heel at a Retrieving Ability Test (no caption printed)

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From the Murray Mail archive: first published in the club's newsletter, issue 49 (December 2022), and dated here to when it first appeared. Read the original issue (members).

A short guide to Retrieving Ability Tests: heel, recall and two dummy retrieves at Novice, more at Open, and how they lead on to retrieving trials.

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