The workingflatcoats blog

Here we will share informative, insightful and (hopefully) entertaining stories about workingflatcoats, our members, and the breed itself.

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Entering a Working Test – Advice for Novice (and not so Novice) Handlers

16/01/2020

Thinking about entering a Working Test? For what you need to know, read on..

Tales of a Working Test Organiser – Madeleine Burr

01/06/2012

This article was first published in the Society’s 2012 Yearbook. I was very surprised when I was approached by Mrs Cyraine Dugdale to ask if

Are show dog qualifiers difficult?

20/09/2001

Frightening or not? A perspective of the Show Gundog Qualifiers Show Dog Qualifiers — what are they all about? They are there to indicate that

The history of retrievers from 1903—1950

06/08/2001

The history of retrievers compiled from the scrapbooks of H. Reginald Cook As members may know, the Society has the scrapbook journals of H. Reginald

The Hon. Mrs. Amelia Jessel in memoriam

13/02/2001

The following article is taken from the Society’s 2001 Yearbook and added to our website. It is with great sadness that I have to report

Read Flowers in memoriam

04/12/2000

The following has been taken from the Society’s 2001 yearbook. November 2000 marked the end of an era for the Flatcoated Retriever Society. One of

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Entering a Working Test – Advice for Novice (and not so Novice) Handlers