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KFhunter

To me it sounds as if the younger dog is being possessive of you (rubbing your legs with its body, growling when you acknowledge him etc) from the older dog.

KFhunter

I just "bah, leave it" in a deep but soft tone and off she goes

wouldn't fry a dog for being a dog, the whole hunting experience is suppost to be fun ya?
Start zapping them for this and that and the other thing and that too then I could see a dog loosing some drive.

KFhunter

sounds like it'll be better in a few days then, be prepared for a mess when he gets back unless the vets really clean him up good. My dog drained watery blood all over her flanks and it looked like heck. but she's doin great now, can't wait to take the tube out so she can finish healing up and we ca...

KFhunter

best of luck, I'll be watching for an update. My pup is doing great with her drain tube, that fist night she was in bummer city though. Whining a little and in pain. and clingy Day 2 was a ton better, day 3 and you'd think all was normal shes runnin around acting pretty normal except for the nasty l...

KFhunter

the pheasant opener here was far worse than any deer opener

so ya, I got no problem hunting my dog on the deer opener. But I'm here and your there.

KFhunter

The lump would not just do away, I messed with it a little bit just kinda rubbing to see if I could feel a cyst or someting. The next morning it was way bigger. Took her to the vet and she cut the lump open. Vet said it was a trauma and had loose tissue and fatty beads like little BB's rolling aroun...

KFhunter

I just went thru the same thing with my britt she had a lump on her side, and it would go way down so I'd think ya its on the mend...but then it would get larger. The other day I gave the lump a bit of an explotory massage, since she's not really sensitive to it, then next morning it was large again...

KFhunter

***update*** The lump is still there, I run my finger and think I can feel fluid squirting under my finger from one side if the lump to the other. When I took her to the vet she diagnosed seroma, but was unable to draw any fluid by needle, but I don't think she tried very hard either as the dog was ...

KFhunter

Is she feeling good? Did you take her temp?

KFhunter

thanks for the advice The dog is about half way thru FF, doing it myself. I got a table set up and she's responding very well, I got hold almost down pat wheither it be a paint roller, bumper or big wooden hammer. Still getting resistance on some heavy akward items though. She's fetching from the fl...

KFhunter

I'm pretty happy with this one http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/gundog_2128_263662064 my only complaint is the beeper function is kind of finiky, and I don't really like having to undo screws to mess with the dip switches to change tones on the beeper part. It also doesn't fit very good on small dogs when us...

KFhunter

Like any other wild thing yes, they will try to defend themselves with their beak & the spurs on their legs. A wounded pheasant may try to use both against a dog trying to retrieve it. A dog may get a little bloodied up around the mouth but I've never seen one give up a retrieve. However a pheasant...

KFhunter

I got my dog on quail, she was chasing and having a ball and I was shooting a .22 at the ground as to muffle the noise. after ahwile of that I starting throwing a frozen bird after teasing her with it a little, then firing a shot from a .22 (in the dirt again) when she ran for it now I even look at ...

KFhunter

Wondering some ins and outs with this, going on a family vacation and dog will have to stay behind for a few weeks anyways. Perfect oppertunity to get some professional training? How does inside the house dogs do when sent to a trainer for a month? Seperation anxiety worries me that the trainer won'...

KFhunter

Wife, Kids and I walked the dog from a young age and it didn't affect her range at all that I can tell she'd take off and run huge, the only thing that brought her range back in was learning to quarter the field in front of me, CC then Ecollar. now her range is pretty small, once she gets quartering...

KFhunter

I don't know what they do with the hens, but all the birds they release are cocks in WA

haven't seen birds missing their heads, the whole carcass will be devoured and all you see is a pile of feathers, lots and lots of piles.
I think coyotes at night get them

KFhunter

mines doing the flash point thing, although yesterday I seen her run right on top a pheasant and flush like she didn't know it was there until she was almost standing on it. The pheasant flushed then she gave chase and caught the bird some 300 yards down range, the bird had been shot and was wounded...

KFhunter

I took her out today, it was wet, raining, miserable but hunter free. While working the edges of the field I stumbled on a bird someone had shot, it was alive and squawking but couldn't flush with a broken wing. I shot near the bird and had her fetch it, really helped get her some drive. she's kinda...

KFhunter

Its in WA state http://wdfw.wa.gov/lands/wildlife_areas/sherman_creek/ Its a pretty good sized game preserve, old farm land thats been donated but still farmed. mix of hay fields with corn rows here and there. The whole preserve is almost 8000 acres, but the pheasants are released in a small area. I...

KFhunter

I tried kirkland performance, couldn't get the dog to eat it and I felt she was way too skinny, not sure we got thru a full bag of it switched to loyall active dog, she eats it, or rather tolerates it still skinny. I've got probably 4-5 bags of this stuff thru her, not really happy with it as her sk...

KFhunter

who's the trainer?

somd folks on here might have first hand knowledge and give you a heads up.

KFhunter

better stay away from released pheasents :o she catches those ruffed grouse should work, they pretty jumpy but she's come dangerously close to catching those too I'd like to work her in a field planted with launchers/pidgeons with my finger on that release button, soon as she smells the bird and hea...

KFhunter

good call Neil, The birds were both full of pellets, shot in the rear. I'm glad she got them. I was worried that this would be a big set back in getting her steady, you say otherwise? I really didn't want to raise pidgeons, but I see why you all put up with them. Tough to steady a dog on wild birds ...

KFhunter

Dang, not a good opener We started at legal shooting hours so were out in the field "late", everyones already shooting. I was worried about a game warden with a stop watch so I don't even walk out there until 7:05 like the regs say, but I hear shots as I'm getting out of the truck at 6:50 or so, its...

KFhunter

I simply cannot find pidgeons around here, nor do I have launchers. nor am I off on weekends to train at the club. The dog is getting in too close to the birds, really crowding them before she'll lock up. If the birds will stay put (wild ones don't) then she will go ahead a point but she likes to al...

KFhunter

I have a pretty similar story to your own I got a puppy, and started doing it on my own (cause thats the kinda guy I am) I don't reccomend getting a puppy and going it alone UNLESS YOU HAVE A TRAINER IN YOUR POCKET or good friends that are already doing it. I have neither. To make matter even worse ...

KFhunter

I took her to the vet today, she did a needle draw but couldn't suck anything out. Said it didn't feel like a cyst or pocket and the shape was wrong. Her best guess was seroma, she's running a slight temp but just off normal. give the dog a course of antibiotics and use a heat pack if I can. gave th...

KFhunter

As long as you don't hunt a main gravel road you should be ok :wink: auctually kidding aside its the truth, most of my grouse hunting is going up a main gravel road then parking at a not so well travelled or better yet blocked off spur then walk in. I would think if your hunting grouse woods you cou...

KFhunter

one of my kids did say she ran into the door, must have been pretty good for him to remember it. Sometimes when they open the sliding door for her they might not get the slider slid back enough and she'll blast thru. She always waits for me to say ok, or come in. But when I'm not home :? wonder if a...

KFhunter

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/3008/1004172x.jpg Can't see any wounds, or breaks in her hide. No Scabs anywhere near the lump feels pretty firm, like a muscle. I massage it a bit and its tender but not hurting her too bad, she acts normal and happy just ate/drank and has been going potty The lump...

KFhunter

Another discussion got me pondering, how did you go about choosing your last puppy? I am not referring to picking it from the litter, rather how did you decide which breeder and or specific litter? I did not, I didn't know this breeder nor did I pick a litter. Did you look for a specific lineage to...

KFhunter

Mine was a runt, or "smaller then the rest"

I got her for half the cost of her littermates, and she's one fine little dog. Smartest one I've had for sure.

Glad I didn't shy away from picking up a runt

KFhunter

Not much for trainers around here, not going to ship the dog off in the mail to some unknown....

So I train myself

KFhunter

I just say "shake your paw" and she hands me her paw, I trim up the nails and she sets the leg down, then I tap her left leg and say "shake your paw" then she hands me her left paw (if I don't tap the left leg I'll keep getting the right paw ) not really :lol: While she does shake her paw like that ...

KFhunter

don't know what kind of infection she has

hopefully she'll take to the antiboitics and get better soon

KFhunter

well, vet called she can come home. said low grade fever, elevated white cell count indicates infection. Don't know where its coming from, guesses intestine. putting her on antibotics, I'm suppose to monitor if she's drinking water, and call vet in the morning to check conditions. If she doesn't dri...

KFhunter

I havn't given her anything, worms shots and all that are up as far as I can tell, shes in the clinic that also does her shots and have all her records on file. I don't know the brand of wormer I used, multi-worms white paste you squirt in their mouth. talked to the vet, their doing a blood workup a...

KFhunter

Is she walking kind of humped up. Has she been pissing? What color? How much? How often? How much water did she drink and has she drank during and since the hunt? Did she get bit by anything? Good luck. Rick couldn't find any bite marks, she may have drank out of Lake Roosevelt but that wouldn't wo...

KFhunter

edit: ok I used a kids thermometer, 102.4 from the back end :mrgreen: not sure she knew what to think of that but she held still gums are pink, all seems normal there. she's getting worse, the shaking is worse she's had all shots and on time. no vomiting or diaerra, she might be nauseated a bit as s...

KFhunter

already in the works for the vet, gotta worry about it all night though

KFhunter

also I don't see any sign of excessive water on the nose or eye drainage

all seems normal, except her attitude and perhaps could *maybe* have a higher than normal temp.

KFhunter

Took her hunting yesterday, all was well she was very happy and running hard. today, not so much. I put new straw hay in her kennel yesterday, I wonder if something might have been in there. 2 days ago my wife fed her some meatloaf, a fist sized chuck. I chastized her for that, Told her the dog is n...

KFhunter

Libby is 1 yr old now she's whoa trained for the most part, needs more. does great at home, forget about it in the field. Ecollar next. has no problem with the gun, gets excited if I get it out. I took her for many walks with the gun not even loaded since I first got her. needs force fetched, not a ...

KFhunter

I hunt a release site as its just a couple miles down the road, it gets a lot of pressure so we come across dead pheasent all the time. Found 3 dead yesterday. The dog just sniffs and snorts a bit around it and I say "leave it" and walk off and she's back off hunting. not sure this isn't much differ...

KFhunter

biggest thing I see happen with the ie "Soft Dog" is they have trhe owners coddle is scared behavior or the dog gets out of donig something with the i'm scared behavior ..thus they learn quick that acting scared gets loved on... I don't think I do this, I'll watch for it, but will admit the screami...

KFhunter

She's all better, the Efence is working beutifully I took her out for a run the same day as I posted that above and she was hunting like nothing had ever bothered her, maybe even hunting with more zealus than normal. She's sure smart with the collar, take it off and she's perky, put it on and she su...

KFhunter

had a major setback today I was working in the back of the yard, beyond the flags and the poor dog musta just forgot all about the flags :( She came trotting up like she normally would and got zapped, she's so dang fast she made it beyond the beeping/shocking zone but I heard the yelp so I hollard a...

KFhunter

She's a year old now

KFhunter

ya I could definatly use the lowest setting, just a beep would be a plenty.

now if I could just find some dang birds around here to use for training

KFhunter

I just got a petsafe wireless fence, yes she was taking off :( mostly when it was the kids with her and I was at work. I read the directions and when I "introduced" her to the white flags the collar shocked her, she wailed and screamed like she was dying then wouldn't leave my legs. She's very obedi...

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