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Nice Photos!!

Moese, sometimes you have to get into the water with the dog and hold the food out in front of his face to level him off. Also try to have the dog hold something in his mouth. By getting the head lower and at water level it levels the dog's back.

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I have a puppy buyer that is looking for someone to train with near Abilene. She is serious about field trials and hunt tests. She has access to land but does not have a horse. The dog is Puppy/Derby. Contact me.

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Yep I agree with DogDr.

I've had dogs with ulcerations from running through the brush and the ophthalmologist has always said that steroids should never be used as it can cause scar tissue to form.

I've also seen entropion and surgery is always necessary.

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I have to say that I too am in agreement with Ray and others who said to use the avoidance method with the collar. I've used this method with the collar for several very young Weims and never had a problem with collar conditioning afterwards. I had to do it with Pearl when she was about 10 mos. old ...

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Yep you are right, Ray. LOL I had a fellow Weim breeder show me one of her puppies a few years ago. Now this is a beautiful bitch and in fact the granddaughter of my own stud dog. She asked me what I thought and I told her that she was beautiful. I then showed her my bitch, Windy, who was about the ...

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LOL I am not a GSP breeder/owner but I tell you what we have the same exact thing going on in the Weim world!! The show people thinking that a JH makes a hunting dog and then there are some who do NOT even have a JH title on their bitch (and cannot even get one!!) yet they advertise their dogs as "h...

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I just realized that the pup in the water with me in the last picture is Kory's who posts on here from time to time!

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BigShooter, Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post. I only walk out into water that is just over my knees. Enough for the pup to not be touching the bottom. I hold the pup securely but not tight to my chest and pup paddles lazily while I am holding it. Pup is held so that its topline is LEVEL in t...

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Get into the water with him. He is still young and may get more confidence if you are close to him. Support him under his belly and just let him paddle like you would with a small child. Just take him a little ways into the water like this. After you have had him paddling for a couple of minutes rel...

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Scott, Ya got me beat by a little under a $1000.00. A little over a year ago my stud dog was coming through the doggy door into the kennel run. Either Scarlett or Windy T-boned him and I heard him scream. He seemed OK at the time but he couldn't walk the next day. His rear end was collapsing. I took...

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Growing up in MA I didn't hunt at all. LOL In fact my family didn't even have a gun in the house!! I did have friends whose families hunted though and one of them had really nice field Labs and trialed them. I loved going to these friends' houses and would actually help the one friend's dad work his...

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Well how did the cheeto lesson go??

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I am pretty sure Dave has frozen semen on Trekker, as he asked me if I was interested in doing a breeding with some of his frozen. You might check with him. I also have plenty of frozen semen on Snips Ticked Off, and yes, Rebel is still kickin'..Also, there is a lvr dog on our website bred by us ow...

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I decided to do what I always do to "picky" eaters, instead of catering to her just to "try" to get her to come into heat quicker. It's working, b/c last night and this morning she ate ALL of her food. I'm currently shopping around for another brand of food. Find it interesting that so many think s...

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Scott Linden wrote:Hey, that's how I learned to swim!

I suggested this to someone on another forum and he said that he ended up eating the cheetos along with the dog.

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Can you clear up this technique for a new member, I didn't see the original post. Thanks. Just float the regular cheetos (not the crunchy kind) on the water in front of the pup. If the pup is food motivated pup will forget about any fears about the water and will start to swim after them. I get int...

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Does her grandsire have any brothers that are alive?? Go back to the breeder of her grandsire and ask if anyone is still alive and intact. What is your bitch lacking?? Does she need a better shoulder, rear, topline, etc? Would you like more range to her run? If you were to outcross I would go to a d...

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I personally like to start pups with the NEF .22 blank pistol. It isn't as loud so it doesn't scare them as much when they are little.

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i just wanted to express my deepest thanks to the person who suggested floating cheetos in the water to distract your pup during his first swim. i tried twice before w/o using this trick and my 4 month old GSP wouldn't come near the water. one bag of cheetos later, and my pup swam around me scoffin...

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snips wrote:Bring her here, she will come in heat:)

LOL Yeah Brenda has a bunch of bitches at her place in heat!! Many times being with another bitch who is in heat will "bring" a bitch into heat.

I would get those dogs on a good quality adult food........

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Ugh I remember back in the 70's and 80's we had a huge outbreak of Equine Encephalitis in New England. I had several friends who lost their horses from it and also know of quite a few humans who got it. It originated from the pheasant population and the mosquitoes transmitting it.

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Greetings from another Weim person!

Where are you in MI? I'm headed up to the UP in a few weeks.

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You can get a belly band for him. Make him wear it at all times in the house. When he pees on himself he won't like it. Or just take a cloth baby diaper and wrap it around his midsection covering his penis. Pin it at the top of his back. This also works well.

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There is a GSP Club of Atlanta. Snips, who is on this forum should know how to get in contact with them.

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Just an fyi for people /dogs. Peroxide should never be used in an OPEN wound. Only for abrasions. Straight from the live-in doctor's mouth. :) Yep As nitrex said it kills off new skin cell growth. You could end up creating a terrible scar on your dog's nose. I would just wash it with antibacterial ...

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Lowcountry, I sent you a PM on a breeder reference.

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Shadow Im not sure i follow you. And yeah im looking for a close ranging dog. Im from the low country a little farther south :wink: outside of sav LOL Not too far from me. I'm just south of Charleston. I get down to Ridgeland and do some hunting on one of the plantations there. Are you set on wanti...

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That doesn't look like mites to me. It looks almost like a Staph infection. But what it is caused by who knows.

I had several dogs that had that same type of thing last year at just about time of year. It was under their chins though.I put them all on a course of Cephalexin and it clear it right up.

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do you have sheep? whatever it is keep the sun off it till the Dr. sees it and after as well. you live down south could she have gotten into fire ants? does she have any in the mouth? sal There aren't any fire ants in Michigan........ It looks like she got into something that repeatedly stung her o...

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Hey LowCountryVet, I've got a quick question. Are you in the Lowcountry of SC??

Are you wanting a close working dog or one that ranges out more? Will you be hunting in the Lowcountry of SC?

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Cherrystone - do you think you could lose your dog in that stuff? Only about 80 acres of it.

Yep I can and I have had a very hard time spotting one of my Weims in terrain/vegetation just like that! My eyes just don't seem to see the grey shades very well anymore.

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Bobman, You have those nice white patched dogs that you can spot much easier then my Grey dogs. While I don't have a Garmin yet (been eying one though!) I have worked with them. My dogs are sooooooo hard to spot in thick cover. Even when the cover isn't really thick if you get them in winter grey co...

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The biggest selling arena for the Garmin is to hunters. Very few trialers own them as yet since they are just becoming legal to have on a dog during the running. Folks who obsess over where their dog is and what it is doing ( the same ones who freak when the dog disappears for a minute longer than ...

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Holy cow! you must have super bugs there. I've used that dosage for treatment many times in rescue dogs and my own dogs. Do you repeat it two weeks after the initial treatment?

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False pregnancy shouldn't affect future breeding of the bitch. Unless of course the bitch develops pyometra. My foundation bitch went through a false pregnancy almost every heat cycle. It didn't stop her from producing three very nice litters. 10 pups in the first litter (live cover), 6 pups in the ...

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The Ivomec gets everything but whip and tape and it seems to hep with external parasites also. Our dogs have been worm free ever since we started using it and have never seen a flea on them but do find an occasional tick. Ezzy Ivomectin will take care of EVERYTHING except tapeworms. For whipworms t...

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Where is Grand Marais in the UP? I have heard of a Grand Marais but I thought that was in MN.

It's up near Picture Rocks. North of Seney.

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I am in Houghton, Mi which as I am sure you know is at the base of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Holy Crap I just looked that up on the map! You are even further up than where I will be. I'll be in Grand Marais next month. What the heck are you doing your Masters in?? I wouldnt' want to be up there in th...

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I have one who is terrified of thunderstorms. She shakes and hides. I have to give her 4 Benadryls to calm her down. She's fine with gunfire though.

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You never know until you actually try the horse. See if the seller will let you take it for a weekend to a trial. I've seen good Saddlebred and bad Saddlebreds. I've seen good TWH and bad TWH. Some are very level headed and some are bad.

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I tried the boys' briefs thing but they wouldn't stay on my bitch. They slid off too easily.

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sliced hot dogs.

I also use venison jerky. I like that better when I am having to put the "bait" into my mouth when showing a dog. I hate hot dogs!!

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Yep I use them for my bitches. I buy the denim type ones at Petsmart. I've found they are the sturdiest. Just use a hygene pad to line it with.

You will need to keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't eat it. I take it off when the bitch is in her crate at night.

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Or you can try my trick if your dog is food motivated........... I'm pretty well known for it........... 1)Float Cheetos on the water just out of reach in the pond. 2)Say nothing to the dog. 3)Food drive will kick in and the dog will enter the water. 4)Don't eat all of the Cheetos yourself! :wink:

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Doug,

I'm not a big fan of it either but when it is used for population management such as at this one plantation then I see nothing wrong with it. The monies raised also go for charity to the local Boy's and Girl's Club.

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is a sure way to injure and not recover many animals that will die from their injuries. Ahh but when you do the driven hunt then the dog tracks the deer and it IS recovered! I know of so many hunters who have lost deer when they have not used a dog. I also know of many hunters who have lost a deer ...

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My prayers are with you. I totally understand what you are going through. I lost a bitch to Lymphoma last year.

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I love hunting one on one but will not ever take part in a hunt that gets the quarry spoked, scared, or running before the shot. This statement baffles me. You hunt birds with your dogs don't you?? The bird is flying off because it is SCARED/spooked (they fly instead of running although pheasant wi...

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Pam, While I'm glad you think I'm knowledgable on driven hunts, etc... it was actually Doug that posted that comment... :D While there aren't many things I'm willing to admit that Doug knows more about... this is one of them... :lol: Do keep us posted on the hunts... we would be interested in check...

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Heather is very correct when she speaks about the driven hunts. I have been on them and they are extremely organized. Standers (shooters) are assigned specific spots and they MUST stay in that spot or they are asked to leave. We also use the grid system that was mentioned but we only use one side of...

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