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- Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:20 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting ready to start thinking about a new dog. . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1638
Re: Getting ready to start thinking about a new dog. . .
My dogs are all house dogs, crate trained and house broken, so I ALWAYS hire a dog-walker when I have a puppy. They come twice a day in the beginning (around 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.), and then once a day (around noon) after a couple months. The other option is an outdoor kennel when you're not home. The...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting ready to start thinking about a new dog. . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1638
Re: Getting ready to start thinking about a new dog. . .
Ideas/Questions: Do you have a trustworthy friend that can help? Actually, yes. Adult working a different shift or telecommuting Retired neighbor An adult dog? Talk to breeders. Contact GWP rescue I'd hate to end up with an adult dog that has serious separation anxiety issues, but it's worth a look...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting ready to start thinking about a new dog. . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1638
Re: Getting ready to start thinking about a new dog. . .
Bigg Redd Everything sounded good until you said you are gone for a minimum of 10 hours per day and 16 to 18 on occasion. That may work for an adult dog but I would worry about a puppy of any breed if you have to leave it home alone that much. No reason that a wirehair/DD wouldn't work as well as a...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting ready to start thinking about a new dog. . .
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1638
Getting ready to start thinking about a new dog. . .
. . . and I need some input. Me: 34, no kids, live alone, lots of time and energy for a dog, within walking distance of salt water, quite active, plenty of dog training/raising experience. What I want: a partner in crime (running, riding bikes, hunting, tennis ball therapy) and a dog that will bite ...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:29 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: looking back
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1518
Re: looking back
Rilly?
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:56 am
- Forum: Polls
- Topic: What gun dog breed do you currently own and why?
- Replies: 199
- Views: 212610
Re: What gun dog breed do you currently own and why?
I just put my old guy down after 13 years. He was Brit/Golden Retriever mix. I got him because he was free and I was broke at the time and I thought he'd hunt, which he did. But honestly I love all dogs. If they hunt, chase a tennis ball, and bite the sh_t out of a lowlife trying to make off with my...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:48 am
- Forum: Polls
- Topic: What is your favorite pointing breed?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26639
Re: What is your favorite pointing breed?
I voted GWP but I'm a big fan of all the wirehaireds.
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:19 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 1st gundog - pros and cons of free feeding?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8719
Re: 1st gundog - pros and cons of free feeding?
Hi All, I'll be getting my first gundog, a shorthair, in a few months and I am wondering about the pros and cons of free feeding him. Does free feeding have any negative affects on training or anything else? Anything good about free feeding beyond the convenience? TIA. --shinbone Feed him/her yours...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 7 Year Brittany?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1066
Re: 7 Year Brittany?
I think it depends on how hard you hunt. I think 10 years of hard hunting is reasonable to expect from a healthy dog of any breed.
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:54 am
- Forum: Tributes to the Departed
- Topic: Bruiser 11/21/1996-2/1/2010
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3747
Re: Bruiser 11/21/1996-2/1/2010
Thanks Charlie.
I'm in a new (to me) place in desperate need of fencing and kennel facilities so it'll be a bit before I start shopping. I'll not be dogless for long.
I'm in a new (to me) place in desperate need of fencing and kennel facilities so it'll be a bit before I start shopping. I'll not be dogless for long.
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:37 pm
- Forum: Tributes to the Departed
- Topic: Bruiser 11/21/1996-2/1/2010
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3747
Bruiser 11/21/1996-2/1/2010
After 13 years of being my best good buddy Bruiser breathed his last. Bruiser was an accidental mix of Brittany and Golden Retriever. I picked him up on Jan 4 1997. I was a senior in college and didn't have the cabbage for a "real" hunting dog but I figured I could make a Brit/GR mix hunt. And I was...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: medium sized dog
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6702
Re: medium sized dog
I have a friend who is looking for his first dog. It will live in the house. He is not a hunter right now , but being the person i am, i am recommending a hunting (pointing) dog. All he is asking is it be a smaller dog. 30-40 pounds. he grew up with cocker spaniels. So my immediate thoughts are Bri...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Bird drive / Hunt drive?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4339
Re: Bird drive / Hunt drive?
Hunted with a friend yesterday who has a 1.5 year old Britt. The dog just didn't want to hunt. I have seen the dog in training situations and he really gets jacked up around birds but when hunting it just seems like he doesn't have any drive. I believe he may be cover shy but I have seen him run th...
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What breed?...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5781
Re: What breed?...
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!Benny wrote:Get a basset hound and grossly overfeed it. Should be calm as clay in about 8 months. If you want to hunt it, just place it in a bicycle basket and ride downwind of cover. Pause when it lifts its head.
ROTFLMMFAO!
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What breed?...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5781
Re: What breed?...
The wife won't let me buy a GSP. This is going to be my first bird dog, however I have hunted over them and assisted with training for several years now. I can buy any breed but a GSP. Her friends have a couple and they're pretty wild I guess, so she won't budge on it. I am leaning towards an engli...
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheasadoodles
- Replies: 46
- Views: 14273
Re: Cheasadoodles
I thought that was pretty good info on the poodle--with the 3 links. Being they aren't considered a sporting group, I had no idea what their original purpose was as a breed and it looks like they could get the job done... There used to be a guy around here (western WA) who hunted a pair of standard...
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: picking the right one
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6325
Re: picking the right one
My old boy is an unpapered Brittany. He was a strong hunter in his day (now all he hunts are milkbones and tennis balls) and he was easy to train. What's not easy is the 8 vacuum cleaners I've gone through in the last 12 years. Ok, it wasn't 8 but this dog never stops shedding. Ever. Call me lazy bu...