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crackerd

Missing game is an eliminating fault in Spaniel Trials. Being a young fresh faced boy in the early 1970's during the Miners strike going out with a 410 and only one cartridge with a Springer, I never forgot my Grandma's face when I returned back with an empty game bag and she said 'It will just be ...

crackerd

Hello everyone, I am new to the group and now I have a question about training a high energy lab. I have been training for a few years with my very mild male lab. He has come along nicely given I'm the one training him. Lol. I offered to house a club members 3year old female with a field trial leve...

crackerd

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr325/robertj1/71d703e3-e996-45d7-8a69-24cc1ec7fd27_zpsfwdhf0fq.jpg Bill, did you do that send-out thingy with Ned the Clumber, too - or trust Jeremy Clarkson and the lads from Top Gear to kit him out with more horsepower? :wink: (Nah, he had it in him already fro...

crackerd

Just to clarify, I think treat's are great for pup's but from six months on, no. Good clarification, GH, it's swung bigtime in that direction (treats) for some of the better (very) young dog trainers. What I'd like to know is what "local trials club" advises against collar conditioning a 7-month ol...

crackerd

Good craic, Cass - thinking gundogguy will be in assent with your post-mortem on how you handled things after Jim K's sudden situation. Big attaboy for putting Jake into the fray in the first place and sounds like you're rightly proud of the lanky hellion. Also please confirm for those of us on the ...

crackerd

polmaise wrote:Congratulations Gundogguy .!

CDN_Cocker wrote:Fantastic little dog to watch - she deserved the win!

Hear, hear! - Aces, gundogguy.

Now how 'bout that Canadian FT debutant, name of Black Mamba?

MG

crackerd

Hey, Craig, lots of retriever folks swear by Katie Becker @ Move the Dog: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Move-The ... 2515059072 What you getting, another pointer?

Good luck,

MG

crackerd

http://www.medicaldaily.com/looking-dogs-eyes-triggers-release-love-hormone-oxytocin-how-dogs-bond-humans-329896 So that's what you mean by which dogs have the best network - like, you know, CBS with the big eye logo coming up on screen? I'm with Neil - don't quite fathom where you're coming from. ...

crackerd

A continuation of marking drills...without the place board or table. Also in addition, steadiness and bird in mouth marking Distances continue to increase. gundogguy, by my measure (and other retrieverites'), the best and maybe only use of placeboards in our game is when doing standalones or what u...

crackerd

Myself and my training friends see Many more GSPs without a natural retrieve. We have more puppy buyers every year who are not interested in a natural retrieve because they can train for it. IMO the more I can get naturally the better I like it. If we can train for every thing we might as well have...

crackerd

The preposterous part is what's claimed about Labs - *you* are misinterpreting that. Who is breeding "the natural retrieve" out of gundogs" that *you* find preposterous?

MG

crackerd

...In Britain, a Lab that doesn't not have a natural retrieve is typically "removed" from the breeding program. Most American Labrador RETRIEVERS are trained to retrieve. The Forum must be evolving. I used to get a lot of insults for a post such as this. The quoted excerpt of "a post such as this" ...

crackerd

Yup, thought from the start that mutting up a breed was the OP's intent. whiteguy, you don't "lose" hunt tests, you pass or fail. And there are quite a few poodles that have passed them at the master level. Wouldn't think it to behoove any of their owners to sell the dogdr a puppy for his purposes. MG

crackerd

My wife raises golden rtrievers, and has had a lot of potential clients express an interest in a goldendoodle. Wouldnt have to be a hunting line poodle, i just feel like the dogs from a "hunting" line are a little more attentive/intelligent, and make better dogs. So you're looking to get a poodle t...

crackerd

CDN_Cocker wrote:Here's my spring training pics

Cass, have you been washing Jake with Clorox again? (Who are the whitish spaniels?)

MG

crackerd

GH, seems to be a reluctance to say what breed this is - and if and when it comes out, you may be amused. I would ask the OP, is that reluctance due to this breed's reputation for bad mouth habits preceding it? A pro trainer can successfully take the dog through FF, as GH says, and maybe even break ...

crackerd

Any recommendations as in trainers? I live in the metro area of Minnesota What breed is this giving you hash when delivering a bird - have I missed it? As for your question above, turns out Polmaise has a friend in that area who could fly him (Polmaise) over for a lesson or two in taking care of yo...

crackerd

Thanks for the update, Tammy - and as always it's great to have chien's (Craig K.'s) personal observations and published work color any breed conversation. Bill, you've gotta be simpatico with that, too, given your original post.

MG

crackerd

Trekmoor wrote:I don't train dogs to run fast or far, the game does that.

Bill, tell the truth, did you use the same kind of training to get the Jam Tarts headed back up to the Scottish Premiership? I mean, relegation last year, what a disgrace...

MG

crackerd

As for running huge, I never judged or ran all age stakes. I cannot for the life of me figure out how a dog seen at best 10 min in a 30 min stake could be judged. Fast horses, "good" singing :mrgreen:. On the other hand, gotta wonder what ol' Bill bugling Pavarotti (with the apposite burr in his te...

crackerd

Tammy, thanks for posting the update on the red, white & blue bracci - happy to hear of their progress. They were just making way into NAVHDA as I was taking my leave (thought at the time to be temporary), and I remember watching a couple of them get ridiculously poor scores in NA, and never seeing ...

crackerd

If you're from Ontario and if you plan to work the dog as a retriever, you should keep your training material "down home," which would be getting through to Dennis Voigt http://www.retrieversonline.com/ and eventually some of his good buddies up there who are almost sure to set you up with some migh...

crackerd

The process for formally training "Here" begins with a passive teaching of the command with no pressure, but rather enticement with treats. It's then enforced with a check cord or rope, and later as the pup matures e-collar conditioned to the known command "Here", which is later paired in the proce...

crackerd

Good show, gundogguy - though consensus would be that this http://www.alpinepub.com/right-start-fo ... ition.html is what the original poster wants for helping the pup, and the pup's owners, find their way.

MG

crackerd

Last year after two absolute obese Labradors won their breed category, the Labrador Retriever Club (the club that sets the breed standard), posted a strongly versed letter to confirmation judges about their complete disregard to the standard. Once again the judges completly disregarded the standard...

crackerd

Sharon wrote:You noticed of course that a Canadian B.C. beagle and a handler from Toronto won?

Sharon, guess that means your national anthem's been renamed "'ROOOOOOOO, Canada!" http://www.stockmusicsite.com/stockmusi ... iid.294920

MG

crackerd

Winningest of the 900 posts made to date on this thread, gundogguy. Spaniel spot-on, indeed - Bravo!

MG

crackerd

Polmaise you just made my day lol 8) . At least one of us is happy :) I have had two cocker's and a Springer that have a zest for chasing deer :roll: ..... Isn't this where I came in, in the first place? :wink: I keep telling you if you "con" them dogs into thinking they caught the deer, or at leas...

crackerd

CDN_Cocker wrote:A better question would be why wouldn't you?

Cass, are you planning on posing that "better question" to the British Empire? If so, you're likely to get plenty of prevaricating, or maybe I should say equivocating answers.

MG

crackerd

Chien, betcha Monsieur Polmaise would really like to know what makes your Ponto different...you know the "Point" Audemer epagneul.

MG

crackerd

I was semi-joshing about Go-Pro, but the overhead camera on a wire would be outstanding - but way, way prohibitive in price. Plus, it might got shot out of commission just after the opening "cast-off!"

MG

crackerd

Gundogguy, gotta get ESS bylaws to allow Go-Pro's as optional wear (for the dogs) in FTs.

MG

crackerd

And OP, you never (never ! ) ( never!! ) want to use frozen birds for retrieving exercises. MG Amen (Amen!), AMEN!! Wondering why you guy's think that? Because it will invite a puppy to have a pup sicle, i.e., chewing on a frozen bird, or else their teeth can be sensitive to something frozen, i.e.,...

crackerd

"Good mouth behaviours are a form of conflict?" I reckon some folks like chewing at each other :lol: .................. A 2 year old Brit ?...How long with the issue? Is it the hold or the re-call or No 'FF' ? ..Soft mouth you say 'dottie' ?..But what is your version of ''soft mouth'' ? Teach 'forc...

crackerd

It is in my opinion, a case of the dog doing what it has been trained to do. That's exactly it - and also a case of a dog not doing what it hasn't been trained to do. Bill, you don't have to move anything anywhere if you train a dog to hunt for sheds instead of marking them by making throws. Yes, y...

crackerd

So you and Robt. opine that retrieving gundogs should be taught not to believe their own eyes , i.e., marking, by moving an object they've marked to another location where they can find it by using their nose? That's pretty rich in our scheme of things, Bill - over here, sight supersedes scent, rath...

crackerd

Here's the disconnect So I am working with my dog to find and retrieve shed antlers. We have just started this and I am new to the sport but she is retrieving them well so far when I throw a single one . Where I have an issue is when I incorprate more than one antler in the yard she gets confused it...

crackerd

Dunno, Gundogguy - between you, Robt., and Cass, and talk of spaniels on the beating line, unraveling spaniels, traveling spaniels, plenty of muntjac, shooting vacations and saints-preserve-us preserve shooting ( Cass ...), 'fraid this is about the best composite http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...

crackerd

I think it was a statement! I think he was just getting the dog tired. No, Robt., Gundogguy's right, it was a statement. Apropos the other thread you're, er, "submerged" in elsewhere, I believe Oscar was noting the superiority of Argentine Labs over North American or Anglo-Saxon Labs... :mrgreen: MG

crackerd

The how come question for me is this. Why are pointing breeds not run on pheasants in Trials? Cover dog trials not with standing where they are run on Wild grouse and woodcock. It has always seemed odd to me that Spaniels are the only dogs run on Pheasants that I am aware of. Taking runners in a sp...

crackerd

Now that you mention the Ramses boys I & II, Robt., I think the younger had marshes installed on the south face of a couple of the pyramids. So that penance could be performed now, especially if you're thinking about becoming T.E. Lawrence VI anytime soon.

MG

crackerd

True, but nevertheless, you and Polmaise for penance must hup 50 times each in a marsh (and going up a mountain).

Cass has impunity because he's still working with the venial sin of training his first spaniel.

MG

crackerd

Either you think I'm stupid or you're purposefully being patronizing. I don't much like either one. Clearly They don't walk on the road all day. You should also avoid the assumption that I hunt flat ground. Why would you draw that conclusion from Gundogguy's commentary? - He hasn't cast any aspersi...

crackerd

Once again, gonehuntin' with gospel - the gospel according to retriever, spaniel and versatile breed trainers all.

MG

crackerd

I have a question... I notice (at least in cockers) that you never really see health clearances from breeders (obviously talking about field trial type breedings). Compared to say labs where testing is paramount, why is this the case? For those that do screen, what do they test for? I would assume ...

crackerd

LOL? I guess that is your way of telling me that my dog will stink after this. Very nice! :roll: Enjoy your dogs and your forum! LOL chroveka - theres more than one way to skin a cat. Don't allow differing opinions ruffle your feathers - there are a lot of them here. Buckets can be useful as long a...

crackerd

I was waiting for comments about that little film clip. :lol: . I also noticed that one of the dogs dropped the retrieve when it reached land... ...In the Spaniel world here in the USA one cannot win a trial because of outstanding qualities in the water, however one can surely lose a trial by not m...

crackerd

Polmaise what are watching there. Personally i could throw a bird across the water to the other bank, I do have a gold medal arm, and at least give the dog a proper test of land, water, land. Or is that not an expectation of spaniel water work during Championships. It did look similar of a USA Juni...

crackerd

He's a keeper thats for sure. Nothing sissy about that little cocker A little birdie just told me the same thing about Jake, Cass, and it weren't one of these little birdies - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/crackerd/100_4524_zpsc18f55a0.jpg - moreover, my young friend, when that particular ...

crackerd

gonehuntin' offers the most succinct, spot-on gundog training advice on the Internet. Including why some people shouldn't have dogs. End of story.

MG

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