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Chukar12

I believe you are expecting too much. Wild quail behave nothing like bird club pheasants; and a 20 month old shorthair is not yet reliable without regard for who is handling it. Every time the dog encounters a new scenario such as location; but especially location and type of game bird it may requir...

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I tend to agree Ezzy...a bunch of creeping dogs and dogs with poor noses as determined by how close they point are born on throw down birds

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I believe most modern breedings of sporting dogs for field purposes have the genetics to be an average bird dog. Within every breeding there are varying degrees of characteristics, and within those characteristics varying degrees of what a person finds desirable. To me, short of the anomalistic “dog...

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There is also a substantial difference in the knowledge, understanding and perspective of people who have spent a lifetime touching, observing and judging literally thousands of dogs...rather than those who have a reference of a few to a few dozen. I believe I could break any dog without an e-collar...

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I agree with the premise Ezzy started. To a dog being in the house can mean nothing and then again, depending on what occurs in the house it can mean everything. Too often I hear people say they have owned a dog or dogs all their lives and a good number of those people mean a sample size of give or ...

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The American Brittany Club has had a stated purpose to maintain the duality of the dog and has had leadership that kept a reasonable balance by supporting that purpose in their governance. It will forever be a challenge to maintain that purpose especially as times change with a culture that gets fur...

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To a very high degree virtually every functional dog breed; sporting, working and terriers has split. To date the Brittany has avoided the dramatic separation, if it hopes to continue to do so, we in the breed club have to ask what has happened elsewhere to split the breed and how do we avoid it in ...

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In most of the AF championships you have to have won a "qualifying stake" and present a win certificate to enter. In some of the dual sanctioned breed club stakes you run in them and can have the AKC win but not be awarded the AF/AFTCA Championship status

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As described, I believe the percentages are probably low single digits. I suppose the question is what does that tell us? It is hard, and a great many dogs compete in juvenile stakes and never get the consistent training or conditioning to compete at the next level, those dogs pad the entries some. ...

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Jagermeister I have not been to Maine hunting; however, you do mention having a GPS for the dog. I would learn the unit well for wooded country. Through the years i have never had folks get terribly lost in the high desert but I have seen grouse hunters and elk hunters get lost in the timber.... Sor...

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This is against my better judgment... Training a gun dog to a finished product is a progression of steps and they correlate to the dog's maturity and the amount and timing of exposure the dog gets to the field and game. In my opinion, none of this can be looked at as simply as a one to one obedience...

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The report I read on this fire is a lightning strike. This will have an impact on birds, the fortunate things with birds however, is their quick turn around in favorable conditions. They may not be year to year per se, though a good hatch does wonders, but a couple of years can make a big difference...

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CJ, what I want in a dog is fluid. It is constantly changing as my passion for the simplistic beauty in a dog's performance replaces my desire to see the dog as a tool, a means to an end in the hunt. I don't begrudge or judge anyone who sees it differently, and there are plenty of folks who follow t...

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I love the logic CJ...don't trust the metrics and opinions of third party judges, even better don't trust what you see. Buy your pup from someone you are comfortable with, is that the measure of a good dog? Its pretty easy to see if they are trying to snow you? How is that? What is pretty easy to se...

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I logged on to see where you and this pup are. It is difficult to help someone in Florida from California. I have empathy for someone young and struggling, most of us have been there. If the puppies pain continues you have to do something. Get support from either a vet that you work out a deal with,...

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The problem with communication is too often the focus is on the delivery as opposed to the reception; whether that may be a gun dog forum or directly to a gun dog. I want as much prey drive, drive or desire as I can get. I do not mind saying that my primary focus in breeding and acquiring dogs is th...

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Congratulations Ezzy... That is a fascinating activity... I am happy when I get half back training twenty miles from home

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But you can have it both ways... The questions are how much and when? No dog is ever "proofed" on "treats" the act of altering behavior is always a matter of discipline and education. A bird dog that values a cookie more than a quail is destined for the dog park. At some point in the proper place of...

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I don't believe dogs "want" to please us. They are factory installed to "want" or more aptly need food and protection their selective breeding for companionship and cooperation makes humans an attractive option for basic needs. They can be as corrupted as humans with things they do not need; however...

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His methods are behavioral based. In person he will help you transition behavior to any particular skill set be it a discipline for a pointer, flusher or retriever. It is important to note that his four days will focus on your behavior, understanding the dog's behavior and your personal discipline. ...

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I would ignore it for now, other than a gruff "get out of that" when you know its going on, then send the dog on with a whistle, your voice or body language however you do it. When the dog is dead broke and showing you maturity..and I am reticent to proclaim a date for that, but let's say three. Get...

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I have less concerns about the physical attributes than I do about the behavioral and intelligence factors. In the field I can determine instinct and intelligence; and especially over time I can see an ability to employ the characteristics. My concern in the ring without being specific to breed is a...

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Someone find a thread entitled " hunt test dogs aren't good at...."

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The credibility of people is terribly fragile when you see beyond their internet persona and bravado. I cannot speak as intelligibly for those East of the Rockies and certainly not for those across the Atlantic. However, some of these "experts" west of the rockies that would espouse their expertise ...

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AKC should not deny another breed a date when competing with a closed trial...and no one should complain about entries when they close... I don't begrudge GSP folks being put off by some of these, their trials are always open.

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It is not a fact that most Brittany trials are closed. There are currently 23 approved Brittany club trials scheduled via AKC in January, February and March. 12 are open without restriction, 5 have partially restricted stakes and 6 are closed trials. You will find that most closed trials are set as ...

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I am not sure how you tried to contact west Texas Brittany club ... But here is a link from the ABC contact page. Jan from that club will help you .... http://clubs.akc.org/brit/Secretary.htm

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The complete information is on the AKC website, but the summary version is: 6 points in 1 hour stakes designated as; through application and approval by AKC, as a Grand Stake. Three points must come from a win in these stakes and the points only apply after the FC and or AFC title has been awarded.

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You lack the intellect to understand dogs and therefore are incapable of training one. You should not own a dog, and while I digress from discussing the gun dog forum you should probably give more time to understanding how to be human.

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That is awesome Doug

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Grand Field Champion... It may be the first shorthair but I believe One Off Mojito Mike had the title first. According to the field trial placement site... JG

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Congratulations

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Doug, I am glad you added the blue flowers. As you probably noticed, I used June's photos of what we refer to as the yellow flowers...thanks again, and thank you all for the kind acknowledgements.
Joe

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Start of my Open All Age brace

a beautiful sunset

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I liked these pictures June McConnell took of the grounds
The flora..

looking to camp...

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I just got home from a great week with the folks in Idaho. We ran the American Brittany Club Chukar Classic during the week, for those of you unfamiliar this is one of a handful of 1 hour all-age dual sanctioned classics that the ABC puts on annually, over the weekend we had an Idaho Brittany Club t...

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I believe some dogs are born with predisposed characteristics that are inclined to make them noise aversive, these same dogs often pose challenges in other difficult to work with behaviors. It is a reasonable argument to say it is genetics. This is enhanced or mitigated by their exposure and environ...

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Well done... Quite impressive

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Do not crank up the pressure. Go back to earlier steps in training repetitions in short intervals and end on positive note...something the dog knows cold. Unless you are a pro on a time schedule forcing the e-collar is a bad idea...I for one am not that good. When the dog responds to simple commands...

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...an interesting note on this trial that is open to all breeds. Our gun dog placements went as follows: 1st a GWP, 2nd a Britt, 3rd an English Setter and 4th a GSP ... A nice cross section of dogs in a thirty or so dog stake...and there were not many whiners.

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Thank you for the kind words...I would have responded quicker but I was getting my wife, my boss and my parole officer a log on so they could read this. Don, I know how much the folks in the north west think of you and it's inspiring to see you out there in that desert staying involved, I hope my en...

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..maybe a shot of whiskey?

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Very well done, a great story

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[quote="JKP"]concentrate on making your breed the best it can be. [quote] Sage advice you should heed first..I have been judging some trials recently and fell asleep trying to chukar hunt with a couple of "dogs" clients brought; "traditional" shorthairs and some wirehairs and if this is where your p...

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Back to my point before the whiskey sets in, forgive me if it already has. Division will occur in the breed when one side or the other becomes intolerant of the others needs and or wants. Standards are not etched in stone, and if size was simply a matter of crossing with other pointing breeds the is...

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I think there are a number of issues and they collectively call for caution when considering where to go or stay with the Brittany. First is that nothing in a judging standard in the field or bench directly relates to the temperament of the dog and it is one of the characteristics most middle of the...

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Thanks Neil, I just love being around dogs, horse et al...it is icing to get a ribbon. In the west there are huge number of GSPs...the Americanized version as labeled by some are well suited for the desert and Great Basin conditions. On top of that, we have a ton of very good pros, Ziggy, Azevedo, M...

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Huh...in the last two GSP trials I entered I won the OD and the OAA...Sonny and Patch the britts don't know any better...and I won the OAA today at the northern ca britt trial, only 1 GSP in the stake, but 7 setters and the rest were britts.

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We can argue temperament, venue, and individual dogs until the cows come home...if you ask me the difference in pointers and setters at the top levels and other breeds is not speed and distance as much as it is bottom and endurance at the extreme of practical application. There are fair arguments ab...

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Each end of the course...like the whole hour!? ... Wishful thinking... It will be nice to meet outside of cyber space

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