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What is more important than whether the pup is showing any pointing instincts at this age is how is pups prey drive? Does it clear the yard of song birds and squirrels? If it does the pointing will come with time and some training.

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Welcome, great looking pup. Have patience and have fun.

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Welcome to the forum and great looking pup.

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Welcome to the forum. Malamute, retrieve an elk and then tow it down the mountain in a sled. Sounds like a good deal to me.

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My vote would be for the GWP first and ECS second. GWP's are truly all around dogs in my experience. They have good noses, train easily, are good family dogs and work well in the water. ECS are pocket rockets that have unbelievable enthusiasm, and are good field and water dogs. They however would be...

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Older GSP on the backseat of the truck. The other two in a kennel in the bed.

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I would get her used staying in a kennel in the house right away. Leave her in another room. Start out with 5 min stints before checking on her. Extend the time. Then leave her in the kennel while you go out of the house for an hour. Come back and check on her. She'll eventually get the idea that yo...

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So sorry Bill, you will be missed. I hope the next few months are peaceful and relatively painless.

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Welcome. I have a 10 mos old GWP and a 11 yo GWP/Lab who thinks he's 5. Great dogs Good Luck and if you make it out to the Great Spud contact me.

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BD 42 if you ever get out to the Big Spud during bird season look me up. Lots to do in the area for the wife and kids too.

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I've all ready started a will just continue training around home until the season starts at the end of August. I envy you. I miss the when I had the time to devote to the dog. Living in the Prairies its not for the lack of wild birds that I send her to a pro, its time. With a young family and a bus...

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I've all ready started a will just continue training around home until the season starts at the end of August.

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I've used a carding method of a sorts on pigeons with very good results. Instead of a card I use a length of cut garden hose, usually12-18" in length depending how strong a flier the pigeon is. I do it in an area with no power lines or trees. I use a paracord harness on both legs that won't dig into...

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Sounds good. I usually smoke my kokanee (landlocked sockeye) but I might try this.

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My son's Lab used to play rough with his husky pup and would often get nicks in his hide. They have all come back as small patches of white hair.

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Welcome to the forum. I'm interested in how the Boykin works out. I love watching those little dogs but they are few and far between out here. One couple up in Driggs, ID use theirs in the fall for hunting and as an avalanche dog in the winter. But watching it I don't think it just rests up during t...

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Welcome to the forum. I think you'll find that Brit are far more softer in their training than a Chessy. They do real well with praise not disciplin. Good luck.

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Welcome to the forum. If you ever want info on Spud bird hunting let me know. We aren't just an upland game state.

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Welcome to the forum.

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Seeing as how you live in a warm place I'd get with it. I agree with Max2 and try to find someone else with a water loving retrieving dog and train with them. I have a GWP that is now 8 mos old, I started her in early August last summer and she was hitting the water with my older dogs. She even went...

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I see a couple of things here. First this pup has only been away from it's litter mates for only a month and the Chihuahua is a surrogate. Puppies tend to vie for dominance and unless your older small dog puts it in it's place the puppy will continue. Second the pup is trying set a place in the fami...

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Huskerhunt, welcome to the forum. Your choice of a GWP was a good one in my opinion. I own a Lab/GWP cross and an 8 mos old GWP. Both are great dogs. The pup was pointing and retrieving birds this last fall. They are full of energy but learn quick. Have fun and don't push the pup too hard.

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Welcome to the group Mike and good luck with the pup. I have an 8 mos old German Wirehair along with two other bird dogs. I feed the pup twice a day to make sure I can supervise it. Other wise the big hogs will steal it from the puppy if she walks away.

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I just let them run through barbwire starting from 8 weeks when we starting working them. They figure it out and we dont have issues. Yep it doesn't take long for them to figure it out. Although I had a Lab cross that would hit a barbwire strand so hard that he actually popped some staples out of a...

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I got an 8 wk old GWP at the end of July this year. She make and honest retrieve on a pheasant at a local WMA on Friday. My Lab/GWP, Puck, put two roosters up in a thick brush patch. (I'm not sure how much pointing was involved but I'm glad I didn't have to wade in). I shot both of them (I know mir...

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I got an 8 wk old GWP at the end of July this year. She make and honest retrieve on a pheasant at a local WMA on Friday. My Lab/GWP, Puck, put two roosters up in a thick brush patch. (I'm not sure how much pointing was involved but I'm glad I didn't have to wade in). I shot both of them (I know mira...

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Really nice to be able to enjoy the World Series during this virus year. At least something is normal. Dodgers haven't won since 1988. No Canadian teams this year , but I can still enjoy the game. :) Maybe not a Canadian team but one of the teams is from the same town whose team won the Stanley Cup...

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I want to thank you guys for the responses so far. The reason I'm curious is that that is what a vet said his working his dog during hunting season was the reason my buddies dog needed both knees fixed at a cost of $5000.

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One of the guys I hunt with told me that he has heard that taking a pup under 1yo old out in the field more than a couple of times a month can lead to knee problems because the growth plates don't develop correctly. Anybody else heard, or know about this cause it was sure new to me. I know running a...

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Did you ever train with wings attached to a large dummy. She seems to not connect that this thing with feathers is ok to, and supposed to be retrieved.

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Reba, is it a hard mouth issue or is it really trying to eat it.

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Something that has worked for me. Pin the pup on their back with your index finger and middle finger on either side of their neck and your thumb and ring finger on either side of their front legs. Now without choking the puppy see much it resists you. If it just lays there, it will be a very submiss...

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I have gotten two bird dogs from local pounds Fawn was a Chessie/Weim cross. She was a great upland and waterfowl dog who lived until the age of 12 and hunted to the very end. Hanna my 12 year old GSP was adopted from the local pound as a pup and she is still going strong. She has the most amazing n...

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I've thought about tying a doggy fly too. Arn

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But Mike, Did they catch any trout?

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Yes. Giardia. So can people. Don't seem to real serious. Some dog get quite sick and have loose bloody stool. not sure how it affects people.....Cj In humans it causes abdominal pain and a lot of time on the camode, a lot of time! But that only lasts a few days. if it is not treated it also has a b...

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Mike, She is a beauty and she sure looks like she'd like to find and retrieve a bird or two if given the chance.

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Sage grouse generally live in broken sage/grass environments. Look around water sources, small streams and springs. Another area to search is small hay fields with a good sage/brush edge. They usually hold well until they have been pressured a bunch, so your flushing dog should be fine. The advantag...

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Very occasionally ! :roll: :lol: I was working a dog on the island of Skye about 35 years ago when the temperature went up to 93 F. ! I was supposed to be doing a grouse count prior to the shooting season with my dogs but I wouldn't work a pointing dog in that heat …..and to be honest I could not h...

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polmaise wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 22, 2020 5:25 pm
Definitive calculation
Temp + age - depth x flow to the power of ten ,divided by distance = 'Time' ,
mind you when you include Pie or even (Pi) tt ,it gets complicated

Does it ever get to 80 F (26.7 C) in Scotland?

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The normal body temperature of a dog is 101 to 102.5 degrees F. So until pond water temp exeeds 100+ F it is actually cooling the dog. I agree that the restricted breathing will compromise the ability of the dog to lose body heat but I would think that swimming in 80 degree water would more than mak...

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Not an expert on Snakes ... I think Rattlesnakes make a noise like a rattle though? I didn't know snakes of different types had different scent though (thanks for that fishvik) Every day is a school day. ..... Is 'Snake Oil' a good thing to use for training ? Actually, rattlesnakes don't always buz...

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I would not borrow a poisonous snake. Unless you have extensive experience with snakes a poisonous when can be very hazardous to both you and your dog. Non-venomous snakes have some value in they can be used to teach dogs to avoid all snakes by sight but not necessarily by smell. I have lived in the...

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Welcome and I would also like to see photos of your Boykin.

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I cut up about 2 ibs of pork trim and boil it up in a quart and half of water and 6 cups of brown rice. I then feed them a half a cup of the mixture with their food once a day.

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It's Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever out here.

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Otherwise grind it up in put in their food like I do with the daily dose of Dasuquin. Thanks for this, the Dasuquin was the exact pill she isn't eating. She started eating the soft chewables from the vet. So thats a start. Great tip though. My 12 yo GSP wouldn't eat the pills, even though they say ...

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When I first got out of college I worked for what is now the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey area on a prairie falcon study. A couple years later I was teaching in Boise and the leader of the Area and I were talking and he said he had good weight data on almost all of the prey species in th...

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When I first got out of college I worked for what is now the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey area on a prairie falcon study. A couple years later I was teaching in Boise and the leader of the Area and I were talking and he said he had good weight data on almost all of the prey species in the...

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