Q I also cant see how teaching a dog not to pull washing off the line is 'working for you'.

Exercise your mind a little Bill and you may realise that in the simplification of it all is that having my dogs NOT EVER touching my washing on the line speaks for itself in "working for me"

It wouldnt be 'working for you' if they were washing pullers now would it.

The three of mine will be pointing quail again at daylight,they have been doing it such since Oct when the birds arrived to breed,they second clutched this year too so there`s quite a few around.. those same dogs do all year work on sambar too and are not lay around the yard dogs..... as an aside now you may know this bloke he`s on the Breton forum and he also hunts sambar with me,
"bretononpoint" he is a long time Breton breeder also and only last year brought new blood into the country after picking up a dog pup in NZ last year he knows my bona fides in dog ownership and training, have a chat to him if you doubt me or my methods cobber.