Gun Dog Forum

Having worked retrievers, I'm familiar with casting retrievers (stop, sit, back, over, here, etc) and all the associated hand and whistle signals. Can someone tell me about casting in the pointing dog world, more specifically in field trials, and the types of signals you give the dog to cast? For ex...

I have a Labrador and an EP. The labrador is a pet first, and my wife's first dog in her life. It took years for her to be interested in getting a dog for the family. I grew up hunting with labradors and mine passed within the first few months of my wife and me dating, so it had been a few years sin...

Do no harm. We don't remove tonsils or appendices from humans when they're born. We wait until there is a problem. Dewclaws are still around after millennia of selective breeding and millions of years of evolution in the wild among far greater stress on a dog than hunting. They are not vestigial. Th...

This page has some interesting summaries of research on the topic

http://breedingbetterdogs.com/article/l ... -singleton