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WildRose

Must be from a litter that Moose was used for stud for up there. Too bad I hope they find him a good home. Ben is a good trainer and a good guy. I saw he and his string a few weeks ago at the Britt trial in CO. He's obviously back to working hard because his dogs did very well in all the stakes they...

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Jessie you don't have to be a sheep to get along here, but basic manners and being polite goes a long way. Elk, your suggestion sounds like a nice one, If you have had some great dogs with some accomplishments what are the dogs names? What have they won? What titles do they have? Its pretty easy to ...

WildRose

I have 8 nests on the floor of my big coop right now. The only problem is that sometimes the little guys just get run over by all the traffic. I put some hay around the eggs for a few days, let mom get used to it, then I simply put the whole mess in a card board box a few days later. Problem solved....

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I've never found they had a use in training pointing dogs that couldn't be done better with something else. CR

WildRose

Usually I don't see a need to answer your questions Charlie as you know it all already. What question?? Your low headed question? I didn't say a word about a dog who points with his head above his shoulders being low headed necessarily. However, I like a dog to look puffed up and not level. My opin...

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No problem just shoot me an email. wildrose@texasquail.com . CR

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Can some of you show us your roading set up. Or how you road. I'm looking at doing it also, but not sure on the set up. Should I use, bike, atv, truck......? Thanks, Griff Griff this is a lot more than you'd need but it'll give you an idea. I had a cargo holder made for the front and rear of my 4 w...

WildRose

I just picked up my dog from the trainer saturday. Took her to the vet for her annual wellnes visit. Got her home and was cleaning out the kennel while she sniffed around the yard. The left side of my yard is line with fence made of currugate sheet metal. She takes off after a cat, around the corne...

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I like a dog to look puffed up and not level. My opinion is only my opinion, so I'm not too sure what difference it makes. I don't consider the black and white pointer to have anywhere near a low head. Well that was the dog I held up as the example Blake, and guess what, he's looking towards the bi...

WildRose

I would stop shooting around the dog while eating or running until she is bird crazy, then reintroduce the gun very slowly!. If you have a problem with birds or the gun, you will never have a hunting dog. Good luck, as these problems are difficult to fix. But there is hope if you are patient. Nitre...

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Dave, sorry but I can't find any veterinary literature that supports that nor does my own experience. Every serious case we've had here of KC has been successfully treated with antibiotics and steroids. Neither has any effect on viruses. I have seen dogs become so ill and so debilitated within 24 h...

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If they are not cracked and bleeding odds are it simply means that your dog spends a lot of time on rough surfaces. The good thing about this is that he's likely to have very few problems with his feet in the field because the "roughness" means he's developing a good callous. CR

WildRose

Poor dog and Poor YOU! What is sebaceous adenitis? This is a perplexing condition in which the sebaceous glands in the skin become inflamed for unknown reasons, and are eventually destroyed. These glands normally produce sebum, a fatty secretion that helps prevent drying of the skin. Clinical signs ...

WildRose

It's not until there is an intersection of the bacteria and a virus that you get sick dogs and a widespread transmission of the disease. When a dog develops what we call "kennel cough", the dog is fighting more than just the simple bordetella bacteria. Dave, sorry but I can't find any veterinary li...

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I was thinking along the same lines as you knine. I would think snake avoidance the dogs would hopefully stay clear of all snakes. I have a 7 year old who got bit in AZ when she was around 6 months or so. Face swelled up but that was it, i am sure I was lucky with her, and she hasn't messed with th...

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It should not be an Either or Question at all. Both are very cheap insurance for your dog and should be considered if you plan to hunt where there are snakes. Just like a dog can bump birds it can't smell it can bump a snake that it can't smell, hear, or see. Remember a rattler that's cold, hunting,...

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HUH?? Since when is a dog holding his head with his neck extended well above his shoulders considered to be "low headed"??? http://www.gundogforum.com/forum/download/file.php?avatar=728_1213449768.jpg The term as I've always understood it referred to a dog holding his head below shoulder level. I've...

WildRose

You make very good points Wildrose the only thing I would like to tell you is that you cannot default or file bankruptcy on student loans. Believe me I know from personal experience that if you do not pay student loans back immediately you still owe them with even more interest. I took a break from...

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I am not upset because I want to hunt someones property and I cant, I just do not like the fact that I have to pay taxes to take land out of production as you so eloquently put it. To me that is paying people not to work it has nothing to do with hunting someones land. If I as a taxpayer am paying f...

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We even initially approached the Oklahoma state wildlife biologist in our area whom I have posted before is supposed to watch after the WMA's in my county and the next one over and is budgeted for it but refuses to come 60 miles over to the WMA's in our county for any reason and has abandoned the W...

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Wildrose I agree as a chapter chairman of QU that when land is managed for wildlife then wildlife flourishes there. Just letting a field grow up with grass and neglecting it otherwise is not managing for wildlife. Well as a biologist and a guy who's livelihood depends on wildlife I'd have to say yo...

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Wildrose you spoke of companies receiving tax breaks and direct payments. Is that not what the farmers and ranchers are receiving in government subsidies? No it's not the same. CRP payments are calculated to reflect what is gained by the populous as a whole due to the land being put into the progra...

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Tommy we've tried patience, logic, and education. Since they won't work I can assume that your argument is purely based on emotion so I won't bother to try any more. When the millions of acres of crp that come out of production over the next three years get turned back into corn production the resul...

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You can get a custom box made by about any of the manufacturers out there that will do just what you are looking for if you decide to go with a slide in box. What I'd suggest unless your dogs tend to fight when riding together is make it a two hole. Fewer dividers means you can carry more dogs. I ha...

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Regarding antibiotics, you hear the same line again and again; "If you give antibiotics the disease will go away in 21 days. If you don't, it will go away in 3 weeks." The antibiotics won't do anything to change the progression of the disease but it's not bad to have antibiotics in the dog if it tu...

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My only concern would be the ease with which 2 of the handhelds could be used on one collar. Judge has one handheld....who has the other? I'd see this as a total non issue Bruce. You could easily have twenty tracking systems tuned to a single dog, and there's no way judges would ever begin to try a...

WildRose

Kennel Cough is the canine equivalent to Whooping cough. It's not usually fatal, but can be. It gets extremely debilitating and painful for the dog but it can be successfully treated with about five days of antibiotics. I'd definitely get the dog started on antibiotics tomorrow. If the vet had a dog...

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I think everyone is getting the wrong opinion of me here. What I suggested was a system much like the electric company who supplies electric to your house or the gas company who supplies your gas or the telephone company who supplies your phone service. A corporation or even a cooperative that is o...

WildRose

If you want to ensure your female makes plenty of milk it's really easy. Just put her on puppy food, or a good 30/20 or similar performance blend for the last half of the pregnancy and let her put some extra weight on. Then keep her on it throughout the lactation period. The only suppliment necessar...

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I still honestly believe that if taxes are paid for any program that in some way all should reap a forseeable benefit from it. I believe the same. Having spent time overseas though, I'm able to see how the farm program benefits everyone in this country tremendously. In most of the world a family ha...

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Just for fun and for you Tommy. Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolut...

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Thanks Chief I appreciate it and I have been considering sending him to Tim Hidalgo over in Hardesty to get him force broke. I would like to do it myself but have never done it before and he is my favorite dog and cannot bring myself to force him to do anything he does not want to because he does e...

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I have an idea Wildrose. Rather than subsidizing and government aid as you pointed out, why don't we have corporations take over farming and ranching. Corporations own the land, the equipment, the seed, the cattle, everything. They put houses on the land and hire people to farm and ranch the land. ...

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I'm a shorthair guy. That being said, I inherited half ownership in one of the finest britt's I've ever seen in the field and he's a really wonderful pet too. I've also worked with and hunted behind some of the finest setter's in the country including one that qualified for Ames TWICE! If size matte...

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So I am not saying farming is not hard what I am saying is that farmers and ranchers are allowed certain privileges and rights not reserved to other businessmen You are correct, but let's examine the other side for a minute. What other business sector is forced to pay retail for everything, then tu...

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To me farming and ranching has become too far removed from the actual consumer of his goods so he forgets who butters his bread. What's even made more apparent by comments like these is that the typical US consumer is so far removed from agriculture they don't understand that without the stability ...

WildRose

However on private land, whether or not there will even be game is largely up to the land owner. Landowners create and maintain the habitat that various game species enjoy or even require. If the land owner has no control over access to his land for the purposes of hunting and fishing then there is...

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I love getting dogs in for training, that the instant I see them point, I know EXACTLY who they're out of. Can you guess?? Yep, his daddy is Ch. Shadow's Attitude!! I love the "Head crank" that Cash puts in his off-spring, but I love the long-range-choke-bore noses even more!! :D Jack, if you're re...

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Flush, Tommy, anyone else that thinks the public should have access to private land... . I am a landowner, always have been, lease a good bit more land from time to time and hunt all over the western US. I really enjoy hunting in states with WIHA programs, or states like Idaho and Washington where t...

WildRose

If the dog otherwise appears to be happy, healthy, and is eating well it's not an emergency or anything to immediately get concerned over. If it's just loose, I'd make no changes unless it persists more than three days. Dogs can get "the runs" for a million different reasons and get over them on the...

WildRose

We hunt 120-150 days a year most years, field trial 20-30 days, and occasionally participate in AKC tests. CR

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These work great for me.

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WildRose

Lots of quiet handling.

Lots of just letting the dog run and explore.

When planting birds for the dog to work, do so after a good long walk. That let's the dog learn that the birds aren't generally going to be found fifty yards from you and/or where you start. CR

WildRose

Someone mentioned getting your dogs used to horses being a good idea. Someone else said "Don't worry about it". I remember watching a judge get bucked off pretty badly a few years ago at a trial when a weim that had never been around horses dove right in and hamstrung the horse biting it several tim...

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I like to keep things simple. "Leave it" or "No" for things I don't want them to mess with. "Give" is to release to me what has been retrieved. CR

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Clarence there's no "when to flunk'm rule" of course and I doubt you'd even get anything like a concensus. A lot of trial trianers have a "system" or program by which they expect certain developmental steps to be achieved on a specific time frame. Some of those folks are the most successful trainers...

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Unless the bite is so bad the pup is going to have trouble feeding himself in the future it will probably never cause you any difficulty at all. Puppy's bites change a lot the first six months as well and before that point you'd have a hard time deciding if a mild over or underbite is going to even ...

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Your breeder needs to be informed about the teeth, that's a genetic problem. It might or might not ever cause the dog any issues though. I'd suggest getting the growth biopsied, but wouldn't worry about removal unless the biopsy shows anything cancerous or precancerous. CR Sorry but I would have to...

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I've taken my dogs from here at about 2,000 ft to 9,500 ft for a trial the next day with no issues. 14,000 though I would expect some shortness of breath, and probably lower endurance. However if the dog is in good shape I wouldn't worry too much. I would think however that giving the dog more than ...

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According to tests done at the University of Tennessee a few years back corn when properly processed and cooked is a great part of a dogs diet. According to these same tests the finer it's ground the more useable nutrition it provides. There aren't any well documented studies anywhere that I'm aware...

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