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by Thinblueline
Sat Jul 07, 2018 7:06 am
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Seresto Flea & Tick Collar
Replies: 16
Views: 12302

Re: Seresto Flea & Tick Collar

I’ve been using K9 Advantix II with excellent results. No ticks, but my dog is a little oily for a couple days after application, and I suspect he is just a little itchy for those first couple days too. Concerning the Seresto collar, does anyone know if it would be effective on a fairly hairy French...
by Thinblueline
Wed Jul 04, 2018 7:10 am
Forum: Guns and Ammo
Topic: What do you think of Benelli shotguns?
Replies: 14
Views: 13096

Re: What do you think of Benelli shotguns?

Save some money and just buy a regular blued finish Benelli Montefeltro. They only run $1000 even just about everywhere last time I checked. I’ve got two Montefeltros, a 12 and a 20, because I think for $1000, and sometimes $900 when on sale, they are about the best semi-automatic shotgun for the mo...
by Thinblueline
Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:23 am
Forum: Training
Topic: exercising my dog
Replies: 26
Views: 7588

Re: exercising my dog

Some of the combos are awkward to operate in that you have to look at the handheld to be sure your thumb is on the correct button. I like having my ecollar transmitter set so I don't have to even think about anything but the correction. I don't like that if one part of a combo needs repair, both pa...
by Thinblueline
Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:30 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Best gun dog food?
Replies: 13
Views: 8069

Re: Best gun dog food?

My French Brittany seems to like small kibble better than any larger variety. I’ve also moved back away from the whole grain free thing I had previously bought into. My dog is extremely picky and I had to try different foods to find something it would eat. I don’t know if I would call it the best, b...
by Thinblueline
Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: French Brittany vs American Brittany
Replies: 9
Views: 9686

Re: French Brittany vs American Brittany

I’m no expert because my first French Brittany is only 14 months old. I’ll tell you how I decided on the French over the American. First, my dog was almost certainly going to be a house dog, and inevitably end up in our bed. My late yellow lab, who was 100 pounds, dictated where my wife and I slept ...
by Thinblueline
Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:11 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Who feeding their dogs Dr Tim's Pursuit ?
Replies: 9
Views: 6841

Re: Who feeding their dogs Dr Tim's Pursuit ?

I would have given it a try but for me it’s just flat out cost prohibitive. I have a picky one year old French Brittany that weighs around 33 pounds. I’ve tried numerous foods that he has pecked at unenthusiastically, including different Taste of the Wild formulas, Purina Pro Plan, Fromm Surf and Tu...
by Thinblueline
Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:35 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Neutering month before season?
Replies: 8
Views: 5454

Re: Neutering month before season?

Why does your wife want him neutered so badly? My wife has tried to convince me too, to have my one year old French Brittany neutered but I just dig in and say it isn’t happening until he’s at least two years old if it happens at all. This might be my last hunting dog and I want to make sure he is f...
by Thinblueline
Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:10 am
Forum: Guns and Ammo
Topic: What type of shotgun are you using for your bird hunts?
Replies: 214
Views: 220489

Re: What type of shotgun are you using for your bird hunts?

I’m relatively new to the site but I will tell you what I have chosen for all my bird hunting. I’ve always shot real cheap guns but in the last few years I cashed in some saved comp. time at work for a few nicer but reasonable options I hope my grown sons will someday use. My primary game is grouse ...
by Thinblueline
Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:31 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Training with a Garmin Alpha TT15 mini
Replies: 30
Views: 12709

Re: Training with a Garmin Alpha TT15 mini

I am saving for a TT15 Mini for my little French Brittany male who is a bit undersized at nearly one year old, weighing in at under 35 pounds with roughly about a 13 inch neck. If someone could please help me, I haven’t found anybody at Cabelas or Scheels that knew anything about these collars. I’ve...
by Thinblueline
Mon Feb 05, 2018 10:47 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best time of year for southern plantation hunt?
Replies: 1
Views: 1456

Re: Best time of year for southern plantation hunt?

I’d love to do a plantation hunt for quail but dadgummit those prices! I’m just a lower middle class income earner. I could never justify that kind of expense for such a hunt.
by Thinblueline
Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:59 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Dog no longer holding point
Replies: 16
Views: 6788

Re: Dog no longer holding point

It's not that she doesn't like pigeon's. Two things come to mind right away. She's a bit timid about the launcher. Tell's me she's got to close to many times. The pigeon is simply a bird we can control to use for training. But if your allowing your dog to make mistake's a wild bird would not make, ...
by Thinblueline
Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:43 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Searching for my next hunting dog
Replies: 31
Views: 11947

Re: Searching for my next hunting dog

NEhomer wrote:I'll repeat my story.

Had Brittany's for years. Got my Llewelin setter and regret ever having britts. Loved 'em dearly but Llews are light years ahead imo.
How so?
by Thinblueline
Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Gun Shy or Gun Sensitive
Replies: 15
Views: 6872

Re: Gun Shy or Gun Sensitive

The dog doesn’t react at all to the sight of my gun, nor did it ever high tail it for the vehicle or parts unknown. It just cautiously crept behind me, keeping its distance, as if he was nervous about something, so obviously it was the gun going off and he didn’t know why. I haven’t hunted him since...
by Thinblueline
Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:13 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Pigeons Without Launchers
Replies: 24
Views: 9495

Re: Pigeons Without Launchers

gonehuntin' wrote:He should be on a check cord. End of problem.
He would be, but as you work the dog into the pigeon and he hits the scent cone without pointing, I’m asking how you handle that.
by Thinblueline
Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:05 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Pigeons Without Launchers
Replies: 24
Views: 9495

Pigeons Without Launchers

As I try to work my young French Brittany through a gun sensitivity issue, I also have the issue that he has had very little bird exposure and at 7 1/2 months old, he still does not point. I bought four feral pigeons and clipped their wings and pulled tail feathers, but those birds were more for let...
by Thinblueline
Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:29 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Gun Shy or Gun Sensitive
Replies: 15
Views: 6872

Re: Gun Shy or Gun Sensitive

Thank you all very much for the things you have written. I am keeping this dog regardless of the outcome because he is so bonded to me I could never give him away. I don’t want to sacrifice his lifetime of hunting by screwing up any further than what I already have, so I will put much of the advice ...
by Thinblueline
Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:12 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Gun Shy or Gun Sensitive
Replies: 15
Views: 6872

Gun Shy or Gun Sensitive

Well, I have a young French Brittany, my first pointing dog since I was a teenager, and I made some errors in judgment. My biggest error was thinking that I could train this dog without pen-raised birds, and could get things accomplished with a constant exposure to grouse and woodcock, like some guy...
by Thinblueline
Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:34 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Gun Dog Training/Discipline/Trash Breaking Old School Style
Replies: 33
Views: 14898

Re: Gun Dog Training/Discipline/Trash Breaking Old School Style

Yeah, I'd have something to say to a guy if I witnessed some of the old school techniques referred to, which borders on animal abuse, if not exactly that. I was just looking for acceptable techniques that wouldn't break the bond of love between me and my dog.
by Thinblueline
Tue Aug 15, 2017 4:24 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Gun Dog Training/Discipline/Trash Breaking Old School Style
Replies: 33
Views: 14898

Re: Gun Dog Training/Discipline/Trash Breaking Old School Style

ezzy333 wrote:In my mind many more dogs were ruined before we had the collars than with them
Care to elaborate?
by Thinblueline
Tue Aug 15, 2017 10:12 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Gun Dog Training/Discipline/Trash Breaking Old School Style
Replies: 33
Views: 14898

Gun Dog Training/Discipline/Trash Breaking Old School Style

If a guy new to pointing dogs considers all facets of electronic collars, and decides that among the many factors concerning them, he primarily just doesn't want to risk his own ignorance possibly screwing the dog up, then how exactly does he go about training a dog with old school methods with rega...
by Thinblueline
Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:29 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shoot...Don't Shoot
Replies: 26
Views: 10519

Re: Shoot...Don't Shoot

It does no harm to shoot a bird you have bumped and the dog hasn't seen. I wouldn't know why it would if the dog truly wasn't even working in the vicinity of where the bird flushed. Except for the possibility of reworking that bird with pup. I can not tell you how many times( impossible :D ) Max wo...
by Thinblueline
Sat Jul 22, 2017 12:00 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shoot...Don't Shoot
Replies: 26
Views: 10519

Re: Shoot...Don't Shoot

gonehuntin' wrote:It does no harm to shoot a bird you have bumped and the dog hasn't seen.
I wouldn't know why it would if the dog truly wasn't even working in the vicinity of where the bird flushed.
by Thinblueline
Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:09 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shoot...Don't Shoot
Replies: 26
Views: 10519

Re: Shoot...Don't Shoot

Maybe "jack around" was a poor choice of words.
by Thinblueline
Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:46 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shoot...Don't Shoot
Replies: 26
Views: 10519

Re: Shoot...Don't Shoot

Thanks for taking the time to offer your perspectives on this topic guys. Sometimes it does seem as if there is some sort of negative connotation about the guy who wants to shoot birds, as opposed to those who are in the sport 100 percent for the dog. I should admit then, I still have great pleasure...
by Thinblueline
Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:39 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shoot...Don't Shoot
Replies: 26
Views: 10519

Shoot...Don't Shoot

My French Brittany pup will be exactly six months old in mid-September when the Wisconsin ruffed grouse season opens. My goal is to hunt him two days each week for two months, and it will almost certainly be just me and him, so I won't have to worry about him creeping and flushing other dog's pointe...
by Thinblueline
Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:04 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Wolves, Conibear Traps, Porcupines...Irrational Fears?
Replies: 49
Views: 38924

Re: Wolves, Conibear Traps, Porcupines...Irrational Fears?

If one does a little google searching, you can come up with what seems to be a legitimate article here and there documenting the occasional story of a dog killed in a trap, but I have to admit, such incidents do seem few and far between, so I feel a little better about that threat possibility. I don...
by Thinblueline
Wed Jun 28, 2017 9:07 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: When should I start gun shooting around my 12 week old GSP
Replies: 11
Views: 6212

Re: When should I start gun shooting around my 12 week old GSP

I have very little experience with pointing dogs, other than two different English Setters back in my teens and early twenties, but I have had a couple good Labrador retriever gun dogs. The method that has worked for me has been to have a 22 blank pistol in hand when I'm running my young dogs in fie...
by Thinblueline
Tue Jun 27, 2017 8:38 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Wolves, Conibear Traps, Porcupines...Irrational Fears?
Replies: 49
Views: 38924

Re: Wolves, Conibear Traps, Porcupines...Irrational Fears?

Thanks everyone for your participation in this thread. Funny, on this one website, I start a thread where at least three of us hunt in the same Wisconsin county...Marinette. Small world.
by Thinblueline
Fri Jun 23, 2017 7:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Wolves, Conibear Traps, Porcupines...Irrational Fears?
Replies: 49
Views: 38924

Wolves, Conibear Traps, Porcupines...Irrational Fears?

On another thread, a gent brought up the use of an e-collar, if for nothing else to break a dog from chasing deer or tangling with something, like a porcupine, that can mess him up good. Like everyone else, I am attached to my four legged friend, and the thought of him getting badly hurt or killed i...
by Thinblueline
Fri Jun 23, 2017 7:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy
Replies: 38
Views: 17153

Re: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy

You mentioned quillpigs, and you'll also run into deer, etc...If you don't use if for anything else, the e-collar is useful for breaking them from that. That is a very good point. Where I will be hunting, in the dense and far reaching northern forests of Wisconsin, if my dog goes off chasing a deer...
by Thinblueline
Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:40 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy
Replies: 38
Views: 17153

Re: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy

Thanks for all the well wishes guys and girls. I hope it works out. There is a chance this could be my last hunting dog so it would really be great if turns out he's a good hunter.
by Thinblueline
Fri Jun 16, 2017 9:53 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy
Replies: 38
Views: 17153

Re: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy

I've enjoyed everyone's comments and thank you all for taking the time to respond. I should point out I meant no offense or disrespect to anyone by using the term "backyard bred". Having not bought a puppy in over eleven years, I haven't done much recent reading about new gun dogs, and I just saw th...
by Thinblueline
Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:53 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy
Replies: 38
Views: 17153

Re: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy

Sharon wrote:Hey, this Lady gave you a good answer. :)
Whoops! Sorry about that! I should take a look at the usernames before I presume things.
by Thinblueline
Tue Jun 13, 2017 6:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy
Replies: 38
Views: 17153

Re: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy

Whoops! Sorry! I better start looking at user names before I go presuming things.
by Thinblueline
Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:25 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy
Replies: 38
Views: 17153

Re: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy

Thanks for all the great thoughtful responses gentlemen. You have put my mind at ease.
by Thinblueline
Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:06 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy
Replies: 38
Views: 17153

Re: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy

Thanks for your thoughtful replies gentlemen. That puts my mind at ease. I'll stay the course.
by Thinblueline
Mon Jun 12, 2017 5:27 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy
Replies: 38
Views: 17153

Expectations For My New Backyard Bred Puppy

I've never trained a pointing dog. I'm not a very knowledgeable or experienced dog trainer in general. I've had a couple great labs that have done well enough to allow me a few good pheasant and duck hunts with just some basic obedience type training. After months of research, I became attracted to ...