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Winchey

I have met a lot of people like that Ezzy. When I worked at a pet supply store that offered training as well we would always have people coming in with problems. We would provide advice and for the Caesar people if it didn't align with Caesars way they would tell us we are wrong. Who has the problem...

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I've never seen a father, son litter.

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What is the super glue like coming off?

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I really am not trying to sell the pup,I just have had some interest in her,and when we talk price it seems to be an issue.I once sold a pup to a pro,it was a max/chelsea pup.He used the pup as a guide dog,then sold the pup for 3500 I was told. Gwen(pups name) ran on sunday with my eva bitch,who ru...

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I have only had one woodcock so far this year and it was a couple weeks ago. We were out pretty steady until Monday, my setter had 3 nice grouse finds before splitting a pad wide open on some ice. He will be laid up until a trial this weekend aside from maybe a little tethered pigeon work. I finishe...

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I do all kinds of stuff with puppies, all my dogs were pretty good, in moderately stimulating environments (house, yard, neighbourhood walk, familiar places) at whoa by 3 months or so. All bets were off in high stimulation levels, training field, woods, around birds, dog park etc... At least until s...

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I have seen some dogs that are good on pigeons, grouse and woodcock get taken out on quail.

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I think I can see where you are coming from Neil, not really in a position to agree or disagree, but it makes sense. But it is pretty tough to correct a dog for bumping a bird and kill the bird at the same time. Someone should invent a e collar button built into a gun you can operate with your thumb...

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It is not difficult to record your wins. Win enough and people will notice. There would be nothing stopping another registry from recording your wins in aftca, just fdsb may or may not do it.

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"If so, would you select for the good long term memory or just try to avoid the lack of it?" Mountaindogs The dog you are describing that needs to be handled to birdy areas over and over and needs to start from square one over and over again should probably never garner enough interest to be bred? ...

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"If so, would you select for the good long term memory or just try to avoid the lack of it?" Mountaindogs The dog you are describing that needs to be handled to birdy areas over and over and needs to start from square one over and over again should probably never garner enough interest to be bred? P...

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That's what they say when I run my munsterlander lol.

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I wouldn't doubt you might be able to register them FDSB and run aftca af trials.

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clink83 wrote:I would be pretty happy to hunt over a setter that crouched like an old time dog. That would be something worth seeing at least once.

Just find a bad trainer who is hard with his dogs.

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I think the drug the nets out as well. I watched a show once about a woman training a portugese water dog for a fish dog trial. It was pretty cool actually. And cooper if we did that, if the dog didn't sink like a rock and drown as pointers can not swim it would surely freeze to death in coastal New...

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I feel the breed is being ruined by those who use it on waterfowl rather then nets as it was originally intended. I don't think they should even be allowed off the island.

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Actually weren't Labs first bred to haul fishing nets?

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When it was first bred the creators probably could care less if it pointed or not and could care less if someone used it one way or the other.

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I don't know the numbers needed to maintain a genitcally healthy population, but I would venture there are many genetically healthy pure breeds out thete with a total population smaller than 10% of the lab population.

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I thought most of the dogs across the pond are taught to flush on command, so ya definately, I don't think it would be difficult. On the other side of the coin I have a pointing dog that I was just about ready to throw in the towel, real him right in and hunt him like a springer until he had a break...

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I have had good luck with vets. But with vets, if you don't like one you are free to find one you do.

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I'll definitely look him up. I like to see what others have to say. But his methods and ways bring result. His shows are not prefabricated. He does amazing things right in front of the camera which can not be refuted. And his Pack leader mentality I totally agree with for dogs or for people. Thanks...

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What gets me about this entire thread is that I thought the labrador breed standard said labs were retrievers. To me this means their proper purpose is to walk to heel during walk- up hunts or sit at heel during drives or sit in hides while waiting for game to be shot that they can be sent to retri...

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Not count noble, but a lot of the setters back then looked like the trial dogs of today, rather than the dual or show lines that are supposed to be true to the original breed. http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m637/Winchey/Lady-Count-Gladstone.jpg http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m637/Winchey/M...

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I think it will pass as she gets older. All my dogs see a ton of other dogs and all of them got beat up as pups. Dogs don't mess with the older 2 anymore. The setter still gets beat up by Boston terriers, but it is becoming less frequent lol. I have noticed a lot of young dogs get beat up by older o...

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"So I believe if the field group would work with the show crowd they could have the same success as the Brittany and to a lessor extent the GSP and V's. And I think it should be done. The dogs that win at Ames have perfect conformation, proven conformation." If the dogs that win at Ames are exceptio...

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ACooper wrote:I can't wait to get a silver pointing labradoodle. The ultimate versatile. 100% of them point, the best markers when compared with ANY breed, and they don't shed.

I hope you have $880,000 for the deposit lol.

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seems normal to me.

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If this is on planted birds use a checkchord. If it is on wild you can let him drag a checkchord, or not. Sounds like the pup is doing great.

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A trial is not a place to train your dog, the experience helps a lot in future trials, but the trial itself is not about making your dog better. It is the game. Getting a dog on wild birds is more of a benefit, but if you are going to be competitive in the venue I am involved with you had better got...

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I had one lone male Friday evening. -5 F with the wind tonight and a bunch of snow on the way this week. Poor bugger.

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That is what the trial chairman has posted.

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I enjoy the competitiveness. The social aspect, hanging out and drinking too much pop with people who like talking about the same things and the bs. Watching a lot of nice dogs do what they do. It is just a sport I enjoy I guess. I get to run my dogs on wild birds probably 100 days a year, sometimes...

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Open SD placement does qualify you as well for that trial.

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The mohegan trial is this weekend in lake aerial. The southern new england woodcock championship isn't that far from there either, south west of providence. Also the empire in new york is coming up as well.

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Of course there is more to it than birds, birds and more birds. But a grouse dog learns to find and handle grouse well by working on a ton of grouse. They will not be exceptional without enough contacts. Of course a trainer that knows when it is time to put soume manners on a dog and can recognize w...

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I just try to get them on wild birds constantly from they day they come home. Try to shoot everything that fly's there first season and then only birds they let me flush after that.

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I don't really agree with that. The pointers seem to dig up birds just fine up here.

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I pretty much need a miracle everytime I bring my dogs to the line. But so long as I keep getting a rush I'll keep donating.

Good luck!

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I don't know what your terrain is like but I have always had good luck in alder swells up here. Regenerated farmland, and mature maple and oak in the river valleys where the alders are coming up as understory.

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Then scratch

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Flushed my first wc of thr year on March 7th or 8th last year. Still a couple feet of snow on the ground this year. Getting pretty antsy.

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If I was looking for a trainer or handler in your area based on reputation alone I wouldn't hesitate either.

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Do they thou? I see a lot of gsp's that share a lot more in common with a pointer than a dk. Looks like a lot of them want the same thing, and I for one don't see a "bleep" thing wrong with it.

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I just don't understand how the goal of an akc aa shorthair differs from that af an aa pointer. Aren't both venues looking for the same thing? Or are the aa gsp breeders still trying to maintain the versatile aspect?

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ohhh no you didn't throw cover dog into this.. THe coverdog circuit is a joke.. I know of one pro who was very successful just drop out of it. why?? because maybe he didn't run seters? politics? I don't know can just speculate.. But trust me coverdog is a JOKE.. mentioning it in the same sentence a...

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I don't think it is if another breed could qualify. and or win at Ame's it is more of who is going to justify the expense to try to beat the odd's of ,( who knows how many pointer promoter's) verse's a few, other breed's and then depend upon a fair shake over tradition. But a short anwser is yes, a...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTTuiE1 ... ata_player

For anyone interested here is a link to the video I first seen of Chasser. It was on PBS's Nova, How Smart are dogs? Pretty interesting, although a little of topic as it doesen't really discuss most effective training methods.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... l?fsm=full

Link to the border collie I was talking about.

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Neil, I have seen a video on the old Phil Donahue (I think...could have been Merv, I was about 5 when it was filmed) show of a cattle dog of some sort who was said to have a very advanced vocabulary. The dog would look at items laid out on the set collected from people in the audience randomly. The...

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