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Well, Good thing my flooring remnant was only 10 bucks. After about a week of HEAVY nesting, birth mess, and more nesting just for good measure, "Sam" managed to eyesore her luxuary accomadations. :lol: http://i526.photobucket.com/albums/cc343/prairiefirepointers/SambosPups1.jpg http://i526.photobuc...

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Sure like my Danner Pronghorn GPX Camohides.

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bag limits have no effect on pheasant populations in cocks only seasons. the more roosters killed the more hens survive and niether do predator control programs. Loss of crp is big the pheasant numbers took off when crp program started. Nesting habitat and winter cover are the big thing. Very few p...

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I dang sure don't support the HSUS or anyone affiliated with them. At least not intentionally... However, there has got to be a better solution than releasing all these PR birds. Conservation perhaps?? Cutting back on bag limits?? These are just some ideas that pop into mind. I seem to remember that...

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That I have. What for?

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Its amazing the predicaments or situations we find our selves in due to having dogs. 99.9% of the time I can find humor in most anything. This is no exception. With my bitch due to whelp out soon, I decided I best find our themometer to moniter her temperature. I can't for the life of me find it any...

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Transmuson, I suppose if you still can't get ahold of them you could go and post the link to this thread on all of his youtube videos. Might get a response then.

Sorry you had that experience with any retailer, anywere.... Totally unacceptable.

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NOT to be confused with Prairie Fire Pointer Supply. And I'm NOT going to tell anyone where to order from. America isn't a communist regime.... Yet.

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He'll get over it. Sheet happens. Its not his dog anyways. I had a client from our spring litter a year ago whos dog ate some gloves and a bunch of sheet rock mud when he had people remodeling and putting an addition on his house. His dog just dang near died. It was really touch and go for awhile bu...

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Hoping for a speedy recovery. What a scary ordeal.

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Nice work.....love the set-up. Is that floor vinyl, no-glue that real soft to the touch? I could use a box like that in about a week. Yes, pretty sure. They guy that owned the flooring shop said I didn't have to glue it. However I know she'll nest like crazy before she whelps , so if it isn't glued...

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Before we did the work to the building, it was hotter than a firecracker in the summer and colder than a well-diggers arse in the Klondike, in the winter time. So, like I said before I had built insulated dens. Our last litter mama was having some complications and when she would go inside her box, ...

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Nor do I. I don't like anything on the floor once she's finished whelping. After that, the only thing thats in the box is mama and her pups.

Post whelp, newspaper or anything else for that matter is pointless. Mama keeps everything cleaned up.

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CJ & Ruff, I went to the flooring shop and bought a remnant roll for 10 bucks. Its not the hard lineolium type thats slick on top. Its more of a plyable soft kind. It won't soak up birthing mess or anything else. Cleans up quick and easy, and the pups will be able to scoot around good. I'll probably...

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Since I just recently insulated and air conditioned our inside kennels, I no longer needed our 2x4 walled, fully insulated, rediculously heavy "Den" style whelping box. It was great for the most part. The only big drawback was having to open the lid to see what was going on. I had pondered the plast...

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Joe,

Wishing you good luck in your pups endeavors.

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birddog1968 wrote:I love my pointers but if i could only have one it'd be a Lab.....

I only hope the next one is half as good as the one i got now....gonna be a hard day when his time is up.

Great picture.

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My favorite dog I've ever had the privilege to own was "Drake" my 125# Canadian Lab. He's in my GIF Avatar ----> That dog was a monster. 26 inch collar and wore a modified 3XL neoprene Cabelas parka. Stood 27.5" at the shoulder. Waterfowling machine. The best thing about Drake was that he made ME lo...

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I'm not here to beat up on the OP. The point of this thread is to get sound advice and digress whether or not things could have been done differently or not. With that being said, and also being the parent of a 2 year old daughter who loves to feed the dogs, I have 2 things I can't help but bring up...

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I've used Chuck with Adventurebound Gundog Express and will use him again. I have alot more peace of mind with him than some dufus on the tarmac throwing my dogs crate around.

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I sure the heck would not have used it as an opportunity to teach him that the approach of a small child means he's going to get the snot beaten out of him. Two year old children do not need to be around dogs who are eating. I Concur. My daughter Haley is 2.5 years old. Loves the dogs and regularly...

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I have an awesome whelping den.. internal heated floor, marble tile floor (left over from our remodel) insulated, pig rails, etc.... however, it stinks when shes whelping because she goes inside it and you can't see whats going on. Since the garage / kennel building is insulated now, I wonder if it'...

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Anyone have any experience with these? I have a litter of pups coming in about a month. I now have my indoor kennels air conditioned. In previous litters, I had the pups in a insulated whelping den with a top that opened and a heated whelping mat from Tractor Supply. I am thinking of going to a kidd...

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Pappy -

I have 3 of the DT-BL 509 small bird launchers. I love them. Don't worry, they have plenty of "Umph" to launch a pigeon. You could launch a small pheasant with one.

The DT launchers have some features that I really like. Can't go wrong with em. Although I am biased.

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DO NOT put a bark limiter on a 10 week old puppy!

+1 with RICKYTICK

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Make it hurt for him like he does to you. Give him a hard knee in the chest and roll him. About two of those and he won't do it anymore. +1. Some times we over think things, making things seem more complicated than they are, when a lot of times the solution is really pretty simple. Good luck, Charl...

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Ya, been doing that. When I walk in the back with the E/C she knows it play time.Thanks Let her start wearing it now while she is having fun. Then in a month when you start with it she associates it with good times. I let them start lugging it around as soon as they are big enought, that doesnt mea...

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If I was that dog I would chew one of those straps loose and try and hang myself with it.

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Green Dot, IMO, has a habit of metering poorly. I now shoot Clays for several reasons.

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well i was thinking of buying a 28 ga over and under never owned one but thought from want i read i would be a little quieter on the pup and a little more punch then a 410, but was thinking maybe a 20ga would be better because the shells are easyer to find and half as much, can you get lighter 20ga...

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You mean Loudshot? :D I have used it for some 12ga hunting loads and used in exclusively in 28 until I switched to 20/28. Using the Win AA HS 28ga hulls when they first came out - volume was an issue and Longshot worked great. All joking aside - it does sound different/louder to me when I shoot a l...

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Virtually all of America has coyotes and I've certainly heard or seen them when I've been out with dogs. There's plenty of them out where I train but they usually don't bother me or the dogs and do well to stay out of site. Today, though, I heard them howling in the trees about 60 yards away and th...

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I don't think it's apples and oranges. I think it's more like Fuji Apples and Gala Apples. Given, humidity has a lot to do with it, but hot is hot. If someone says it was 110' you don't stop to ask "was it humid?" before saying, "Man, that's hot!" Not saying 100' isn't hot, but it's so hot that you...

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100 Degrees? Nothing new around where I live. 50+ days of it last summer and already had record breaking heat this year all over the state. Fortunately for me and the hounds, the house and the kennels are both air conditioned.

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You just can't resist, can you? :D Not really. :lol: NGD: ????? Its commonplace to shoot 12's & then subgauges in registered Skeet tourneys but as far as Trap goes, thats a new one to me. As for practice rounds, some people believe it makes you a better shooter to practice with a subgauge... IMO it...

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ultracarry wrote:Good article.

On another note, anyone catch that she now has 3 gsp's!

Shorthairs were the closest match to keep pace with a 3 legged dog... To get Pointers would have just been rude.

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Who's the mama? That's a nice lookin' pup, man. Does he have any more? ;) The dam is out of Elhews Rising Sun and Fibbers Southern Belle. No he only had 2 pups. He kept one, and I'm trading one of my linebred FRB pups from my litter for the female. Hes gona be having some nice stuff coming along th...

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Yeah pretty cool.. I have often re-viewed the story about "Cooper" the blind birddog, on youtube. If you can watch that without a lump in your throat, you're an oak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gxGOlBRpDE

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Being from the old school I do not do contracts. We give the owner of the bitch two options: (1) They can pay stud fee and get their stud certificate at the time of service with the understanding that if the bitch doesn't take they get return service or refund, their choice. or (2) They can take th...

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Great! Lets talk politics and religion!

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Just thought I'd share a few pics of the pup I have coming from East Texas. Her call name is "Prairie" and she is sired by CH Elhew Explorer. http://i526.photobucket.com/albums/cc343/prairiefirepointers/Prairiedog01.jpg GRUBBIN! http://i526.photobucket.com/albums/cc343/prairiefirepointers/Prairiedog...

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ezzy333 wrote:Dogs just don't take time to complain like most of us do.Ezzy

Finally, something we can agree upon.

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Has anyone else read the inspirational article in Gun Dog magazine about "Bart" the Vizla yet?

Made my day.

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It was 108 at 3pm here in Pretty Prairie today. I concur that when its that hot out my dogs don't do anything but rest. I had a young dog go down with a hypoglycemic seizure last summer. It was during the late evening and we wern't doing too much. I had picked the dog up and was givin her an "Atta g...

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Don't get me wrong Dave, I still got into minor trouble when I was young. Typical teenage stuff like fighting and drinking under age but back then that was common and we all held summer jobs and participated in sports and went to high school in the fall. I have a spotless criminal record not even a...

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Anytime from 5 weeks to 5 months - or later...some versatiles dogs are a little later to point. Pointers and setters are pointing each other in momma's womb. +1 I've had pups point at 5 weeks, and I've had litters that I thought were far better than the one before that didn't point till 8 weeks and...

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Ever watch this show? I have sit in on a couple episodes and everytime I do, I swear my blood pressure elevates to unsafe levels and I want to go find the parents of these kids and give them a good "Stoot Slap" :roll:

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So why can I see ya'lls posts then???

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Question on the beer fetching events.....are these 30 mins.....1hr....or 3hr...events? Just wanna know how much "training" is required before showing up. Also, does anyone have an idea where I can find a really good dog for seal / walrus trials? PA isn't real far from OH and I wanna be ready when t...

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Anyone happen to know when cheetah season opens? Think I'm gonna give it a try with my AA-bred pointer this year. It falls somewhere in-between Musk Ox and Yak season. Guess I need to surf the web and post up some pictures of other peoples dogs doing things that I have never done. Coop, Make sure y...

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