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Dakota Swede

15 days. Lady was diagnosed with cancer just 15 days ago. Put her on the steroids. They shrunk up the lymph glands. She ate well. Walked and ran and hunted on the 2 mile bike path. Got extra spoiled and extra loving. Ten days of steroids, and when they ran out the cancer showed back up with a vengea...

Dakota Swede

Treatment for dog cancer has apparently come a long way - but not far enough. My 4 year old female Vizsla had runny eyes for a few days. It was time for her shots so I brought her into my local vet. As she was being examined I commented that the lymph nodes under her jaw were also swollen. The more ...

Dakota Swede

Feeling really bad.

My 4 year old Vizsla was diagnosed with Lymphoma this morning.

I'm kinda a tough old guy - but the tears were flowing down my cheeks in the vets office.

Dakota Swede

Sounds like a great adventure.

4 months is a long time to live out of a tent. Rain, snow, wind. Too long for me.

The RV and pulling another vehicle to use would work in my world.

Dakota Swede

Oh my. It is a different world today. Have you seen this news? "The embattled president of California's Fish and Game Commission pushed back at his critics Tuesday, telling them he did nothing wrong by killing a mountain lion on a big game hunt in Idaho. And he vowed not to resign." http://www.mercu...

Dakota Swede

I'm 54 years old and have been hunting, well, pheasant hunting with my dad and being around hunting dogs long before I could carry a gun, and for decades after. So the question is - is a dog made to ---- Win field championships? Earn hunt test titles? Look good in the show ring? Be a personal huntin...

Dakota Swede

Hmmm - I don't get it. Here is a venue that gets people out with their dogs and bettering their birding skills. If it gets some people interested in working more with bird dogs, good for them. Pretty sure no one out there is getting a JH title and a FC title mixed up. Don't understand the negative t...

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I come from a farming background. My brother still runs about 500 stock cows. All the calves are the result of cross-breeding. Lots of known advantages to cross-breeding in cattle. Overall health and vigor. Daily rate of gain. Feed conversion. In dogs - there is no sure thing that the genes for hunt...

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Have been feeding my pup Purina ONE® Large Breed Adult Formula . 26% protein and 12% crude fat. I guess I respected my local vet for sending me on. She suspected a shoulder injury and we could have messed around for added time (and money) before pinning down the real cause. Have kept him on the same...

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Had an interesting experience with my 8 month old Vizsla. Came back from a hunt, older dog jumps out, and the pup didn't want to get out of the truck. Got him out and he was lame and very tender on his left front leg. Brought him to my vet - she checked him out and couldn't find anything wrong. Gave...

Dakota Swede

My dogs love chew toys ---- and pheasants too.

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I'm curious what some old timers would say. Are today's best dogs better than the best dogs from years back? And what criterion is being used? Competing and wins against today's dogs compared to competing and wins against yesterdays dogs? I think the best predictor of quality pups is still quality p...

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Some amazing things going on in farm country. Land in some areas of eastern South Dakota is selling for $5000 an acre. CRP can't compete with what that value brings in cropland rent.

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Had a group cancel out in November. It looks like it should be a good fall in South Dakota!

Dakota Swede

I put some of this on a different post, but thought is was appropriate on Fathers Day. I would be interested in seeing some other people respond with their memories. ----------------------------------------- Not enough time and effort is put into getting the next generation interested in the outdoor...

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You can spend as much, or as little as you want in South Dakota. I have seen the Million Dollar Lodges (and they are SWEET!) and some people come and hunt the road ditches and sleep in their campers. If you aren't scared of the fickle weather on the plains, and are willing to walk miles and miles, y...

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I Know. It's only March. But I (and my pups) always look forward to the fall season ------ (From www.KELO.com) SD Pheasant Season Set Published: March 10, 2011, 5:18 AM Bookmark and Share SD Pheasant Season Set SIOUX FALLS, SD - Hunters can circle Oct. 15 on their calendar. That's the opening of the...

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I have two high energy dogs and live in town. Have a shed with a dog door & the run of a 10' X 20' kennel. But they HATE seeing the mail-lady come! They think that they need to bark & chase her (and the gas meter person, ect. ect.) away from our house. So they bark & bark, and she leaves! What a won...

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Sounds good. Just updated our website and put a link on to Gundog Forum.

Thanks,
Paul

Dakota Swede

You may want to check our website out. We are in SE South Dakota about 15 miles north of I-90. We have wild pheasants and a farmhouse you and your wife could have to yourselves. My family has been doing this since 1957.

Check us out at www.SkoglundFarm.com

Good luck in your search.

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Thought I would throw our site up here. http://www.SkoglundFarm.com Have kept pheasant hunters on our South Dakota working farm since 1957. People keep coming back year after year. Must be something good going on. And we love our Vizsla's and GSP's. Check us out at http://www.SkoglundFarm.com Have a...

Dakota Swede

I don't, but my wife does! It make it kinda fun!

Dakota Swede

Youth are the future of our sport. We all need to try to introduce young people to the outdoors. Good for you!

Dakota Swede

I'm pretty sure my vizsla & GSP know that I am in control when we are on a walk and we stop and they sit before we cross the highway on a walk. When we are hunting, their training & instinct keep them on point. I would not want a hunting dog that did not have basic obedience training.

Dakota Swede

The neatsfoot oil and bending it over an edge (tabletop, ect.) was good advice.

Dakota Swede

Check out ---- http://www.lindensvizslas.com/puppies.htm

Lindens Vizsla. The Pups mom is a Champion & the Sire is a Dual Champ. & goes back 3 more generations DC.

Denny Keeton & wife have bred Vizslas for 30 years. Top notch.

They may still have a pup left.

Dakota Swede

Now people in South Dakota can sometimes have a bit sarcastic tone when they don't agree with someone else. Read the news on this link. Curious what you may think. It made me smile. :roll: http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=110128 ----------------------------------------------------------...

Dakota Swede

OK - so say I have a great dog ----

How much might I invest in this "Field Trail" experience? And to have a chance to get a Field Champion???

Dakota Swede

Sounds like it could be alot of fun.

Dakota Swede

New to this forum. Long in the tooth for Pheasant Hunting. Have some good bloodline Vizslas. Have guided Pheasant hunters from across the nation at our South Dakota working family farm for decades. Started thinking it would be fun to breed some of our own Vizslas. Know it would be important to have ...

Dakota Swede

Oprah into Jennifer's dress? I'm still trying to process that!

Dakota Swede

For under $100 you can buy a good bark collar. My dogs hate the mail-lady. The collars remind them to watch their manners.

Dakota Swede

rkappes - here is a pic of my dogs last summer. The dark pair are 3/4 GSP & 1/4 Vizsla. All weigh in under 50 pounds and will work their hearts out.

Dakota Swede

Have hunted wild pheasants in South Dakota for over 4 decades. Have owned flushers & retrievers. Currently have a Vizsla & a GSP/Vizsla cross that I hunt with (they are sleeping at my feet right now). Wild birds are just that - WILD! Unpredictable - that what makes it such a challenge. My pointers r...

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Put them in a little girls arms and they are all lovers.

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OK - so here is my problem --- would like to breed my well-bred bitch next spring. Stud #1 is a Dual champion and pedigree goes back 3 generations DC. Dog is passed on and Frozen Semen only ( and semen is more than I would like to tell the wife about!). Stud #2 is a son of Stud #1. Just got his Dual...

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As my dear mother often told me ----- New friends are Silver / Old Friends are Gold !

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Is it true that you get smaller litters with frozen semen? If so, how much smaller?

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Interesting stuff! Are you using frozen semen or fresh? What are the advantages and disadvantages of frozen semen?

Dakota Swede

I'm surprised the percentage of 12 ga. shooters isn't higher.

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