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Yawallac

I don't reward field work with treats... but I don't see anything wrong with it. Some guys give 'em bird heads. Whatever works.

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Hey birddog1968,

The sire to your dog in the pic is a littermate to the sire of ckirsch's dog that he has been writing about. Weird huh?

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IMO, a well bred pointing dog should have natural retrieving instinct that can be nurtured into a functional hunting companion if the owner desires. I honestly don't know what breed has the "most", but it is something that we breed for to be sure. If I had to select a breed it would probably be GSP ...

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Brenda, so glad you're feeling better. Just curious, did they have to bring in Dr. House to make the diagnosis? Ticks, go figure!

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A couple of weeks ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9McIhg4f-k

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When you've got a dog that looks like that, it's 'bout time to change the avatar!

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I think he expected to state his opinion without being jumped all over and called stupid. I never called anyone stupid. When I said "really, really smart people" I was actually referring to some really, really smart people (the NAVHDA guys that trained me believed all that Pointer nonsense). I stat...

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Caleb, Sorry, I wasn't questioning your intelligence at all. In fact, I was told all of the traits that I listed by many very smart dog men. My point is that they didn't actually have any first hand experience with Pointers. So my opinion of Pointers was based on what I had heard from them. Funny th...

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Caleb,

You're right, Pointers are all run-offs, aloof, hard-headed, won't retrieve, hate the water ...and don't make good house dogs.

Anything else?

I heard all that stuff from really, really smart people just like you

...and none of it was true.

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but I've never owned a pointer.

Until you actually own a Pointer, your opinion is pretty meaningless. From my experience, owning other breeds including GSPs, Weims, & Pudlepointers, the Pointer is a BETTER house dog because he isn't as dumb, as hairy or as ugly.

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Not to rain on the parade, but I've never owned a pointer because I've never met one that I'd want living full time in my house during the first year or two of its life. They're great, great hunting dogs, but I would never get one as a house dog. If I lived in the country with space for the dog to ...

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If you have seven pups in a litter, you will have seven different personalities. Think of your own or some other family with three or more children. Do all of the kids have identical personalities? It's the same with puppies. Say both the stud & dam are sweet dogs. With a normal litter, raised righ...

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If it is an English Pointer the AKC register, they are good in the house.

Yeah, the American Field Pointers suck in the house.

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...nevermind.

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He almost never touches them on point and takes a much more natural approach to training them.

I'm not sure what 'natural approach' means. I think what I do is pretty natural, at least it seems natural to me.

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The collar on the neck is a Garmin. All training dogs wear a Garmin while running here ...just in case. The teaching of "whoa" was done in the controlled training field. Here I am overlaying what he already knows. Next the collar goes back on his neck. He has not been stimulated in over a week and a...

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No, that's Sarah helping me train. She's my distraction dog and she knows the drill.

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I was doing some whoa work with a hunting dog this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTxIfTVZ23I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3rmrd6MrMo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWxbFLszTQY

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There are different reactions during a pup's development that tell me it's time to break them. One is the pup that has been pointing fairly well but now has decided that seeing them fly is much more fun. That pup gets pulled from the course and is moved to more formal training. This is not to be con...

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I like to touch my dog so I can remain calm.

That's good.

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So if your going to work the planters,,,,,, IMO quit spending all that time out infront of the dog pretending to flush,,,, go to the launcher and release or release when your still a hundred yards back. But all that fake "kicking of bushes" when your out in front of the dog does more harm that good...

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Thanks Ezzy. I tend to be in the Snips and Gonehuntin' camp until.... until the prospect is being finished out. When they are just learning about birds, not only don't I touch them, I don't even speak to them or let them see me. I want their complete and undivided attention on the bird. But, after t...

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Hey Ross,

I was talking about you in that thread "Do pictures matter?".

Yeah, I read that.

Sometimes I touch and sometimes I dont.... but I don't want to explain w/o Ezzy'z ok. If it's unlocked I'll post.

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I just saw the thread and I have some things to offer about how and why I touch and don't touch...

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I also consider overall conformation in my breeding selections as well - coat, size, head type and tail set. I'm not looking for 12 o'clock or curved up tails - I'll keep the 45 degree tail angle. I want a 65-70 lb male and 50-55 lb female with a dense coat for cold water work and a larger head wit...

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Interesting thread. I think there is plenty of NAVHDA GSP blood available w/o Hustler in it.

Where are you located Deadwood?

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Myles Guffy 417-247-0533. He has been hauling dogs for me for a few years and I really like the care he provides. He is located in MO.

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Here is the girl we picked up yesterday. She is by Strut, bred to an Elhew Fibber McGee daughter. We will breed her to Jack (avatar), our Blackhawk son. I worked her on birds yesterday and today and I like her. http://www.caladenkennels.com/gallery/Cindy01.jpg http://www.caladenkennels.com/gallery/C...

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Brenda, the LC controls are backwards compatible with our old Innotec launchers. In fact I replaced the webbing and still have a couple in service.

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Ross, do you think that the coloration and setter characteristics would be held against the dog in competition if its performance was on par with other top-level competitors? It certainly hasn't hurt Strut. He was the winningest Derby in AF history and is now AA DOY. And I don't believe he was give...

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We have DTs, Dogtras and Lion Country launchers. The quality of the DTs and Dogtras are better than the LCs, but to be honest I like the LCs best. They are the easiest to launch multiple traps w/one hand. One hand on the checkcord and one hand on the transmitter. I can launch each additional trap si...

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I think I've heard you don't like to breed Blackhawk to Blackhawk. If this is true, why? How much is too much in your opinion? The Rock Acre line has traits that we want to exploit so it really depends on the individual dogs. We're going to try a couple of breedings that will double up on Blackhawk...

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Update, we bought a 2yo tri-colored female today and we will probably breed her to Jack, our Blackhawk son.

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We haven't had any since we stopped breeding Rock Acre females to Rock Acre males.

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Acooper, in the "Sarah's Boys" thread, the Strut pup is Rocky.

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Just curious if these were the pictures for backing purposes as these pics all have the dogs tight into the scent cone. That's pretty funny drifter because there wasn't ANYTHING real about these pictures! The photographer even used those big round light reflectors that you've seen used for the Spor...

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barkridge wrote: I know Strut did well as a Derby. He may have come earlier than most. As you know, the age of the dogs vary quite widely as derby campaigners. Around here we judge a dog AFTER their Derby campaign, not before. :wink: Is barkridge still around? Ch. Strut - All Age Dog of the Year......

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Cooper and Rocky just came back off the circuit and they all have that when I get them back. I believe it's from being stuffed in small dog boxes. It grows back over the summer.

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A friend, Joe Pope, a contributing photographer to many of the publications that we enjoy, including, but not limited to; Field & Stream, Pointing Dog Journal, etc. visited the Plantation yesterday. He wanted to get some pics of dogs backing, so I grabbed a few of our beasts and we headed out. I did...

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I would like say that i never meant so may GOOD people ready an willing to help in training like the people from the Potomac Chapter of NAVHDA ..

The Potomac Chapter taught me how to train my very first bird dog ...a LONG time ago.

Congrats!

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Anyone who thinks they can compete and win against the big strings of the Tracys,Eisenhart and Kinklear are just Spittin' In The Wind Yep, that's just what they want you to think. :D Granted, I have dogs with the Tracy's but I run my other dogs against them too. ...and win. Honest judges will put u...

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i have a shorthair that can find birds that arent there son!

You just proved that you're delusional!

(Just having a little fun guys.)

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The question was, is a Pointer a good choice for a first time owner/handler?

It wasn't, "Is a GSP a good choice for a first time owner?", especially, when everyone already knows that a GSP is a great starter dog, even Doug could train one.

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Except that it's a Pointer thread guys.... :roll:

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Those are two beautiful pups. Nice looking heads.

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Fortunately for me I live in a target rich environment when it comes to finding top notch pointers.

The beauty is that you can find top notch Pointers everywhere.

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Certain lines are so easy to break that they can be pointing and holding birds before they are one year old.

Under a year...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_RKNUj8GY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWYXsfuJU6I

...nuff said.

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I think the reason this was posted is because he's got a little setter blood in him?

Dhhhhhh, sometimes I'm a bit s-l-o-w....

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Is he a setter ???

I believe that he is a half brother to Rock Acre Blackhawk, by Rock Acre Buckwheat.

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