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by Vonzeppelinkennels
Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:12 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tri Valley Field Trial Grounds.
Replies: 4
Views: 1623

Tri Valley Field Trial Grounds.

Here are some pics of the wk end trial course at Tri Valley in Ohio for most of the open stakes.This is only a small portion as there is over 16000 acres all together but not sure just how much of it is used to trial on.I have never run on the HR course yet but next month will try to get some pics a...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What's up with that?
Replies: 52
Views: 21978

Re: What's up with that?

:lol: So now if some one replys to a post you made calling me out it's stalking?? :lol: You think you are that important to be stalked by me,that's a joke.You and your money & business means NOTHING to me don't flatter your self!! :roll: I posted on this thread before you ever did so I'm stalking yo...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:03 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Team Momentum
Replies: 47
Views: 25978

Re: Team Momentum

Ho HMMMMMMMMMM :roll:
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What's up with that?
Replies: 52
Views: 21978

Re: What's up with that?

And I wasn't talking about you but don't tell everyone they make money breeding dogs because most DON"T!! You used my & Rinkers post to show how much money you make.I don't care if you make a million but don't tell every one else they do the same!! MR BIG IMPORTANT BUSINESS MAN!!
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:53 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What's up with that?
Replies: 52
Views: 21978

Re: What's up with that?

CJ I'm glad you get $1000 a pup & sell them before they are 2 mo old & you don't consider anything else like the cost of feeding dogs all yr,kennels,any vet bills etc.You are a Business man so tell me how when you spend more then you take in you are making money? I don't breed dogs to make money if ...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:34 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Training with pigeons question
Replies: 14
Views: 4988

Re: Training with pigeons question

I would try just letting the dog have a pigeon to do what ever it wants with it chase it,catch it,play with it,eat it,you have to wake up the desire before anything else.Take off the CC & let the dog have at it once you have built that desire then worry about the training if the desire is not there ...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:05 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Training with pigeons question
Replies: 14
Views: 4988

Re: Training with pigeons question

I have owned a couple dogs that were just simply bored with pigeons they would stand them but not really point with any intensity.They would turn their head & look at you like this is stupid.I just quit training with them try quail or chukar,wild birds are the best answer IMO if you can find them.On...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:23 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post dogs on Point!!!!
Replies: 738
Views: 739182

Re: Post dogs on Point!!!!

Storm at winter camp in S Ga.
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What's up with that?
Replies: 52
Views: 21978

Re: What's up with that?

+1 Rinker!! :D
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:39 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: field trial scouts
Replies: 52
Views: 21697

Re: field trial scouts

CJ send me your email & I will send you some pics of the Tri Valley trial grounds here in Ohio.I would have to reduce the size to post them here & you won't get the same perspective.Most of these were taken at 18 times zoom Send it in a PM if you don't want it here.
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:19 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.
Replies: 108
Views: 33266

Re: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.

Wouldn't you say that owners that say the dog they bought from you was the best they ever owned are DOWNRIGHT SATISFIED? These are average people not pros!
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.
Replies: 108
Views: 33266

Re: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.

Ezzy I don't think GSPS are allowed to test in Germany under the test he is talking of but since I don't know a lot about it JKP could answer that.I do know that GSPS are allowed to test under the DK tests but even if passed can not be registered as DKs but DKs can be registerted as GSPS in this cou...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Mar 09, 2014 3:11 pm
Forum: Tributes to the Departed
Topic: Gene Cunningham
Replies: 2
Views: 6053

Re: Gene Cunningham

Sorry to hear that Chip,I also heard that Bob Merkel had a fire & pretty much lost his kennels & most dogs included.
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Mar 09, 2014 2:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.
Replies: 108
Views: 33266

Re: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.

JKP another thing you need to think about when you keep talking about how many FCs there are compared to the high scoring dogs in your tests.I'll bet there are a lot more dogs competing for those FCs titles then are testing for those high scores.Those F Trials are open to all breeds for the most par...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:06 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.
Replies: 108
Views: 33266

Re: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.

JKP here is where your theory about one dog gets in trouble.I bred my Wendy to 3 different stud dogs all FC's one a NFC the other 2 FC/AFC in the first litter there was 9 only 2 females.I sold one female & let that woman pick I kept the other I also kept one male,all the others were sold to hunting ...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:08 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: trial question
Replies: 8
Views: 2778

Re: trial question

No you are better off to never have to back but if the situation arises your dog better back or your on the rope.Like they say you can't win by backing. :wink:
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sat Mar 08, 2014 1:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.
Replies: 108
Views: 33266

Re: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.

Exactly Fuzz & no two people get the same from reading the standard just as no 2 people like the same kind of hunting dog & I'm glad or they would all be alike.How boring!
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sat Mar 08, 2014 10:27 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.
Replies: 108
Views: 33266

Re: Field Conformation vs Show Conformation.

But it's not about winning so they would have to make it some kind of TEST!! :lol: This is not Germany we are free to breed as we choose not some one tell us what to breed if you like their system better there are ships crossing the ocean every day. :wink:
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:26 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: trial hunting ranges
Replies: 148
Views: 47620

Re: trial hunting ranges

They just can't believe a dog has enough brains to know the difference between a handler on Foot & a man on a Horse.The first placement my dog ever had was a walking trial in Pa,the first time she ran at the GSPCA Nats at Uereka Kan they lost her but tracker found her standing on point .7 miles away...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Fri Mar 07, 2014 2:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: trial hunting ranges
Replies: 148
Views: 47620

Re: trial hunting ranges

Grousehunter I like you guys that say one thing in a thread & then in the next you contradict what you just said.Like this how do you use an E-collar to put a handle on any dog but then say you Tone a 350 Yrd dog back to 200 yards in the grouse woods?? Here is another thing you don't say or understa...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Fri Mar 07, 2014 11:27 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: trial hunting ranges
Replies: 148
Views: 47620

Re: trial hunting ranges

JKP you have a lot of nerve talking about honesty when you posted on this forum that you did not send me a PM stating you don't like ONE WINNER takes all venues because they are about the people & not the dogs. Then you post how testing is the same as competition in another thread but above you agai...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Wed Feb 19, 2014 6:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Feeding your dog
Replies: 10
Views: 3198

Re: Feeding your dog

PM sent B_H :D
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:21 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Feeding your dog
Replies: 10
Views: 3198

Re: Feeding your dog

PM sent :D
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Re: Tests & Competition

Ezzy do what ever you feel necessary like I said no hard feelings.Bye
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:55 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: What do you feed your Dogs?
Replies: 285
Views: 199216

Re: What do you feed your Dogs?

Maybe me but if you would stop telling us we are wrong because we don't do or believe as you I might be more polite! :lol:
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:37 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: What do you feed your Dogs?
Replies: 285
Views: 199216

Re: What do you feed your Dogs?

He just can't get it in his head that no one care anything about what he does with his 50 lb britt but he wants to condemn the rest of us because we do differently.
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Re: Tests & Competition

SO if I post that TESTS are not Competition it gets deleted but he can post that his GERMAN test proves the dog that GETS the HIGHEST SCORE is better then any FC in the last 43 yrs & it gets to stay?? :?
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Re: Tests & Competition

Winner!!!!! My dog not some one else that I bred,did not buy her!!!!!
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:14 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: which gets you a placement
Replies: 33
Views: 14417

Re: which gets you a placement

This is why it all depends on the judges.
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:37 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: What do you feed your Dogs?
Replies: 285
Views: 199216

Re: What do you feed your Dogs?

I always figured my dogs were tougher then me or at least as tough so I never asked them to do anything I wouldn't do other then maybe swimming for a retrieve because I swim like a rock.Really the retrieving from water was their choice though not mine! :D
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:24 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Re: Tests & Competition

Ezzy I thought I made it clear I don't say one is better than the other to each their own but I don't see any competition in a test.JMO & most others I've talked to about it. :) I would like an apology from JKP more or less calling me a liar when he denied sending me the PMS that said he didn't like...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:08 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Re: Tests & Competition

Charlie even us old arrogant folks cheer for a dog at a F Trial when they are really putting it on the rest of us.So JKP can say all he wants about F Trials being about the people & not the dogs. :D :wink:
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 3:37 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Re: Tests & Competition

I know owners that do both & enjoy both but they will tell you testing is NOT COMPETITION!!
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 3:21 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Re: Tests & Competition

:lol: Thank you JKP now how bout telling the truth about the PMS you sent me in 2011 telling me that you don't like the winner takes all venues because they are about the people not the dogs.

Then some how you perceive that testing is about the dogs & not the people. :?
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:25 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: National Championship
Replies: 58
Views: 22590

Re: National Championship

Always has to be some one to try & be little it! & he call me arrogant! Yes JKP I'm talking about YOU!
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:23 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: National Championship
Replies: 58
Views: 22590

Re: National Championship

Hey Don I'm all for you & Stormy in 2017!! GO STORMY GO!! :D
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: National Championship
Replies: 58
Views: 22590

Re: National Championship

Shadow Oak Bo is at the top of the heap as of his run this morning!! Maybe a REPEAT :!: :D
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:43 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Re: Tests & Competition

What's the point of any thread? :?
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:28 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: which gets you a placement
Replies: 33
Views: 14417

Re: which gets you a placement

Depends on the judges more then anything.What are you calling super & average bird work,no of finds,style,?
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:36 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tests & Competition
Replies: 50
Views: 21462

Tests & Competition

How many Think Tests are competition? Are you Testing or competing or is it one & the same? Let me add this I have nothing against tests or any other venues I know very little about the testing venues.I'm just saying in my eyes there is a difference between TESTS & Competition. I took plenty of test...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Decline of Field Trials
Replies: 249
Views: 79648

Re: Decline of Field Trials

Neil if your talking to me I will never post on your thread again.
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Decline of Field Trials
Replies: 249
Views: 79648

Re: Decline of Field Trials

Ezzy I know you never said it but others here have suggested it.I know exactly what your saying I'm just saying the stakes are there for the newbies but they don't take advantage of them.

Sent you a PM CJ!
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:15 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: KINETIC Dog Food?
Replies: 43
Views: 32017

Re: KINETIC Dog Food?

I vote NO!! Tired of ALL the DF BS!!
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:46 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Decline of Field Trials
Replies: 249
Views: 79648

Re: Decline of Field Trials

I did train my avatar dog Storm on pigeons did you miss that part.He just needs his retrieving points to finish but he is a natural retriever didn't need FF like my FC Star.I didn't train her because I wanted to know if she had the tools for trialing & don't start training much until the age I took ...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:38 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Decline of Field Trials
Replies: 249
Views: 79648

Re: Decline of Field Trials

OK JKP you didn't send me that PM I use to respect you but after telling me that well not so much.I have more of your PMs if you can't own up to them you shouldn't write them. I could copy it & put it up here for every one to see but PMs are personal & not to be shown but I have never written one I ...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:32 pm
Forum: Hunting
Topic: Bunny Hunting in snow
Replies: 1
Views: 1699

Re: Bunny Hunting in snow

Hunting in the snow really? :lol: Nice going snow is the best hunting conditions in my opinion. :D
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:28 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Why use an E Collar at all?
Replies: 50
Views: 21555

Re: Why use an E Collar at all?

Frank I own 11 GSPS at the moment have owned dog for over 40 yrs use to raise & show dobes.I F trial GSPS own I FC & another on the way & I was breeder of both of them.No I am not a first time one dog owner & all the pros that train dogs for a living use E-Collars to train with don't know one that d...
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:30 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Why use an E Collar at all?
Replies: 50
Views: 21555

Re: Why use an E Collar at all?

Trash breaking & training are 2 totally different things entirely no matter what breed.
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:28 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Training tips for a non-hunting GSP
Replies: 16
Views: 7554

Re: Training tips for a non-hunting GSP

And your Breed is?
by Vonzeppelinkennels
Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:26 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Why use an E Collar at all?
Replies: 50
Views: 21555

Re: Why use an E Collar at all?

Nice Reply Frank! :roll: :lol: