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How do you know that a dog is "really" from certain lines? What I mean is you are talking about this dog having Hege-Haus in it's lines but how can you tell someone didn't just name their dog that? I am learning about this and am not asking to start anything. I have wondered about it on some other d...

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We're getting another pup in about 6 weeks! We had planned on her for almost a year. But when Rebel hadn't sold from a friends litter we just had to have him too. He'll be 7 months when we get the new girl

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Our 3 are house dogs but have kennel/run for when we're not home. We put bales of straw across the back and on the west end to help block the wind, there are gaps between some of the boards. The door faces south and we do not have it covered. We put cedar chips inside and they seem fine. I find it a...

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Rebel "pick me." http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j158/Bonnieportner/Pup1007007.jpg This new place isn't bad! http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j158/Bonnieportner/Pup1007019.jpg Two weeks later - I'm not putting this pheasant down for nothing! http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j158/Bonnieportner/Re...

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We have 2 TT w/acc beeper and our dogs swim with them on. We have not had any problems. They have been used for over a year and we do water training at least once a week from spring-fall.

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I work in Omaha and live in Gods country, Iowa. I like this area cause there is always some where to get into birds. Southwest Iowa pheasant wasn't as good this year but a couple hours north it was good. I have seen a lot more quail the last couple of years. We are 1/2 hour from Skyline hunting pres...

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All three chipped, Home Again, and the new pup will be chipped when she get her rabbies shot.

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As matter of fact since the e-fence has the tone as a warning that is very close, if not the same, as the tone on the e-collar we can use the tone when hunting to get the dogs to come to us. I have a concern that if the audible warning that the e fence collar gives would initiate a recall command r...

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We have had the Petsafe Wireless fence for 8 years or so. We have never had a problem with it effecting their e-collar use. As matter of fact since the e-fence has the tone as a warning that is very close, if not the same, as the tone on the e-collar we can use the tone when hunting to get the dogs ...

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I live across the river and work in Omaha. What kind of birds are you looking for?

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We bought a wireless doorbell that had 2 doorbells. We put one on the inside of the door and one on the outside. Our dogs never "got " using the one inside, they were already housebroke. They did learn to push their hip into the one on the outside to come in. I think they taught themselves. They wou...

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The one we have does 45 ft from the transmitter, so you get a circle. You can overlap with other transmitters but to do 4 acres that would take a lot of them plus you would need to run elec to each transmitter.

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Again I dont think how much a person is willing or able to pay for a dog has much to do with how the dog will be cared for, that depends on the person involved and should be screened for by the breeder. There are just as many rich people who have no business owning a dog as there are poor people wh...

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If you want to train the dog yourself you should check out NAVHDA at www.navhda.org. Each chapter does things a little differant but most hold 1 training day a month. I met some really great people that are more then willing to help with training. Our chapter does not hold training days during the h...

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Check out NAVHDA at www.navhda.org for help with training your dog. Hopefully there is a chapter near you or chapter members that live close enough that you could train together. We have members in our chapter who do not run their dogs in the test. They just want help training their dogs.

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We have the Petsafe wireless e-fence and love it. It is a reconditioned one we got off e-bay. We did have a problem with our lab "breaking" through. My husband called Pet safe and they sent us their new, at that time, collar that you could set the stem higher on. It worked like a charm. When we got ...

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My husband and I are hunters first. We belong to NAVHDA and have tested our dogs. We have a lot of members in our chapter that do not test their dogs and that is OK. What is nice about NAVHDA is you have people to help you train and it gives you access to birds. I believe our membership fee is $30.0...

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Not saying this is the deal with your dog but it might be. I have a friend that trains hunting dogs. We were training one day and she brought out a dog of a mutual friend that was in for training. When she brought the dog out all was good. As she whoa'd the dog and it took a step she reached down to...

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We have the Pro200 G2 and love it. When my husband and I hunt together we always had problems with the dog that I had the transmitter for hunting with Rusty and vise versa. TT made two transmitters on the same frequency for us, they had to be done at the same time. We really love this set up, the do...

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Thanks everyone! Our friend owns the sire and we know the guy who ownes the bitch. I saw the litter when they were 3 weeks old and liked this guy. We were not in the market for another dog as we plan on getting a female this spring from our 5 yr old males bloodlines. My friend was telling me there w...

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Last weekend we got a new pup. We were not planning on getting him so we don't have a name yet. he turned 10 weeks the 27th. Here he is the night I brouhgt him home. 9 weeks old http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j158/Bonnieportner/Pup1007014.jpg 10 weeks old http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j158/Bo...

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Wonder what kind of hunting dog it was if the guy had to go retrieve the bird. Sign me up for one of those

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Our black lab tore hers when she was just over 1. She was not spayed.

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I wonder what happens when they hear gunfire. Do they just whine and moan, or do they flat out surrender :D ? ROFLMAO!!! I have been lucky enough to see several Braque du Bourbonnias at NAVHDA test. Sheri from Rufnit belongs to our chapter so I have also trained with them. I really love to watch th...

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You might try the Big Muddy NAVHDA chapter http://www.bigmuddynavhda.org/
They may have someone close to you that could help out or you could go to a training day.

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I have had the e-collar on my dog when I took her to the vet. I was waiting for someone to say something but no one did. FYI the only reason she had it on was because I was having shoulder problems (torn rotator cuff) and couldn't handle her tugging. She was a pup at the time and not trained to heel...

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Wow this is getting off topic....somewhat So what I am gathering is that is seems the basics need to be reinforced. I work on those things everyweek, and in the field she is near perfect. Just those dang cat's stop her brain from letting her ears work. I am not going to use a collar yet....maybe ju...

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I would like the info on the trailers too. We've been looking for a used one but not having much luck. A new one for 1-2,000 would be great.
Thanks!

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Some friends and I got together Saturday to work the dogs. Copper did not like the fireworks over the 4th and the neighbor across the road is still shooting off bottle rockets. She also has come to dislike them shooting the BB gun so we were getting a little concerned about her reaction to the shotg...

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We use both. Our Pet Safe wireless e-fence has a tone when the dogs get close to the edge of the signal. This tone is real close to the tone on the TT e-collar. When we are training or hunting if we need the dogs to come back to us we can hit the tone button and they come right away. We did not have...

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We have the Pet Safe wireless e-fence and love it. Bought it on e-bay, it is reconditioned but we have not had any problems with it. We had 1 GSP and 1 Lab when we got it. We got a 2nd GSP and while looking to buy a third collar for it my husband was able to purchase, on e-bay, a 2nd unit, with coll...

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Sorry to hear of your loss.

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Thank you all! This info is a good start. I would Have posted sooner, but I could not get log on to GDF till today...

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Thereasa, you got me ROTFLMAO!!! And I needed that this morning.
Great pics!!!

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We are in southwest Iowa. We have an Envoy and figure when we get a 3rd dog it's going to be hard to fit them all in. We hual the dogs for training 2-3 times a week. We also run the dogs in NAVHDA and hunt test. Our older dog has done some field trials and we may enter him in more. We also hunt 2-3 ...

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Glad to hear you are doing better. Hope you are out and back doing what you love soon.

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My husband and I are thinking of getting a dog trailer. We know nothing about them and do not know what to look for. We have 2 GSP and will be getting another in the coming year. We would probably like a 4 dog one.
Pros/Cons? Any input would be great.

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I live in SW Iowa and hunt mainly upland and some waterfowl. Our first hunting dog was a lab. I have problems walking in the heavy cover we hunt and getting my gun up so I tended to miss a lot of shots. When we were looking at getting another dog we hunted over some GSP'S. I enjoyed it a lot more as...

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We had a pointing lab whose dam was out of Black Forrest (Colorado) and sire was from Blackjack (Kansas)

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He makes some very good points!

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Shadow - We live in the country, but right off of a paved, well traveled road. We went with the wireless e-fence and are very happy with it. When we got our female GSP she would "run through it". My husband called PetSafe and they sent us their new collar that had higher settings for the e-stem. We ...

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We are almost through the recovery. Did you do any water theropy or anything like that. I understand what you mean because my guy is as active as they come. trying to get him to settle down is rough. The sad thing is he sits looking out the window and cries becasue he cant run yet...... We have a l...

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We had the TPLO ACL surgry done on our lab several years ago and once healed she was just as good as before. BTW our lab was called the anti-lab by many as she was not laid-back. We had a hard time keeping her non-active for severel weeks after the surgry. Best of luck to you!

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Welcome! Hope you jump in and share your knowlege.

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Isn't it fun trying to keep a hunting dog, calm and not moving

She's looking good!

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My vet does it, but charges more.

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If your dog is barking after it winds the duck and is chasing it that is not a problem. My friends dog VC'd in '05 and barked/bayed while chasing the duck in the shackled duck.

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