Um, when it comes to hunting a young dog first season with other dogs, like, do you like to hunt them with other dogs a lot? Do you like to give them a good mix of hunting independently and by themselves? Like, what do you do?

Yeah, no, a, a good mix of the two, you know? And, uh, it's just gonna de- depend upon the dog.

I mean, if I hunt them by themselves, if they're not hunting, well then they're gonna get a lot of work with another dog, you know? And, uh, uh, so we haven't talked about backing but, you know, that's- I, I've got that, that, that fun backing, which is really just like a conditioned response, you know, where, uh, I- in a- with the silhouette it's just so nice.

And I've got a Google Doc I can share with you if you wanna put it in the show notes where you, you can, uh, you can take, uh, print it off at a printer, and there's like seven eight and a half by elevens, and then you just kinda tape them together, and it's the outline of, of a, a, a pointing dog that you just, you know, transfer to plywood, cut it out, and, and so.

But, you know, it, it's just a conditioned response.

You know, if they- I just walk around with a bird full- a, a bag full of birds and my s- my silhouette.

And so, um, when I catch the dog not looking, I'll drop the silhouette down.

S- you, you explained this a little bit earlier, but how do you use an e-collar to reinforce a command the dog already understands? How do you overlay the e-collar, um, and then how do you know the dog truly understands the command in, in doing so?

And Mercia is my fourth quoted company as a CFO.

Thank you.

So that regional advantage, as we put it then, we were looking to scale that into what is now a national platform.

And as we look into FY27, so this financial year we're now in, we see four key strategic priorities for the group.

The first, which is important, is this ongoing simplification of the business.

And what we mean by that is the divestiture of the direct investments.

Our origin, which was bringing across this hybrid model and scaling those direct investments, we are now looking to run those down on an asset by asset basis.

And that funding round is sufficient now to drive Warwick Acoustics forward and develop its business