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Sonny Hawkins wrote:Hey Parshal, The Nutro and Pro plan here at Tractor Supply are the same price.--------sonny

Yes, but you get 2.5 lbs. more food with Nutro since it's a full 40 lbs. bag instead of 37.5.

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I mostly feed Nutro High Performance. It's cheaper than Pro Plan and comes in a full 40 lbs. bag instead of Pro Plan's 37.5 bag. I can feed nearly 1/2 cup less food with the Nutro than with Pro Plan and stool production is no different. Pro Plan is a good food and I do feed it at times so I'm not kn...

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The MH tests I've run have all been run on quail (I'd rather see chukars, quail present their own host of problems) but there have always been some pheasants around. My dog has come into contact with some at tests and they did take out a few of the lesser prepared dogs. Most of the people complained...

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Are you looking for someone to train him for you or to help you train him? I know a few trainers around and there are some very active NAVHDA guys training their own dogs that always welcome new people. PM me the name of the trainer and I can let you know what I know about him. I can also give you s...

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My idea is to see a dog take a direct line to objectives no matter where they are and not spend time searching in front of you just because it is in front of you. Personally, when hunting pheasants, I don't want a dog in front of me just like you. I want them off to the side. I might flush the bird...

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...from personal experience....it's pretty easy for a dog to mistake the sound of one going off as a "come" command... I taught my older dog to the come the TT tone on the collar. She'll come now to the locate on the Dogtra beeper. My younger dog has started coming, too, since he's seen her turn an...

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The wide open spaces of the west with CRP is where I like my dogs to quarter into the wind. I have not taught them to do that, they do it on their own. As WindyHills says, though, quartering means different things to different people. Mention quartering to a field trialer and they think windshield w...

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I've had two Vizslas. One was a gun shy, timid dog that was afraid of her shadow. I bought her when she was four months old and she'd been a crate most of that time. I'm not sure how much of her problems were related to her "crate" time but she was a spooky dog with serious separation anxiety. I had...

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The dam of this litter is solid liver save the graying muzzle. A number from the litter were solid liver with no white. My pup has a few white hairs on his chest which has faded with age. The previous breeding of this dam had a number of both solid black and solid liver pups with no white whatsoever...

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CherrystoneWeims wrote:The dog would have to be a solid liver to be a white blocker.

I assume every solid liver dog is not a white blocker, correct?

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I'd say an allergy. Mine got bit by some deer flies this weekend and the bumps they left are larger.

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I guess you can argue that but my experience tells me that they are not all that different. If you know the breeds well you might see some differences. Those differences may be large on some and subtle on others. Other than having shorter ears there's not much difference between this GWP and GSP hea...

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What bothers me is people going to a breeder who is breeding them. By creating a demand for them people are giving the OK for poor breeding practices. I've seen two different Blues out here in Colorado. I don't know if they came from the same breeder or not but I think the owners (two different own...

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There are alot of dumb people out there, GSP's and GWP's look nothing alike no matter the coat. Billy, I had a GWP that had virtually no furnishings and a nice tight coat although not slick like a GSP. I also have a GSP. Unless they were standing next to each other you would have been hard pressed ...

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So you all think I should stop all woah traing? I do it when I let her out of her kennel, playing fetch, and feeding. I do the same thing with my puppies. However, I do not use the word whoa or any other command. I just open the kennel door and if they come out I tell them no and put them back. I t...

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I agree that's why the dog is sitting but someone who's not trained a dog before will just see "the dog sits on point" not realizing that the dog will sit when pressure is applied.

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This ought to be interesting. I've never taught a pointing dog to quarter. I just take them hunting and they do it naturally. Some may range farther than others but if they range too far I just call them back.

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As slistoe was alluding to I think you'll find as many differences within a breed as you will between them. I've seen some pretty aloof, business-like GSPs that could care less about you. I've seen many that were velcro dogs like Vizslas. Trying to get people to stereotype breeds just leads to more ...

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Everyone keeps talking about sit causing future problems when the dog is on point. I've only worked with two dogs that would sit on point and both, incidentally, were owned by the same person. Both sat when confused during the steadying process. They did not point and then sit. I don't teach sit not...

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If you want to train yourself, I would recommend learning how to read your dog and get real good on timing.Making corrections at the exact correct moment is what separates the great trainers from everyone else. Also, know when to speak (and when to shut up) and learn to "teach" your dog. That's exa...

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Where in Iowa are you? Much better than any training book would be to go to either of the two NAVHDA chapters in the state and train with them. There will be some very knowledgeable people that will train you to train your dog. They will not train your dog for you but if you're willing to put in the...

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Another vote to not wait. If a bladder infection is allowed to go on too long it can reach the kidneys and a kidney infection is very bad. A bladder infection is a simple antibiotic, usually Clavamox.

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I drive six hours each direction to hunt. I'm pretty much a weekend warrior driving after work on Friday and returning home late Sunday night. I get about 30 - 40 days a year in this way. I wish I had hunting out my back door. Heck, I wish I had decent hunting within a two hour drive.

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That does sound like a bladder infection which is not too uncommon in female puppies.

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You've got some of the best hunting in OK right around you. There's no need to drive up to the NW. Sandy Sanders is one of the best public quail hunting places in the state.

If I lived around there I'd hunt any pup as much as possible.

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Great advice here and I'm sure I'll repeat some of it. I've run NAVHDA tests for years and finished my first MH this year. We skipped JH and SH and went 6 for 7 in Master. I had run two MH braces a few years ago with a GWP but that was all I'd seen before this spring so take this advice knowing how ...

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I'm curious if there's the birds have to be retrieved in a specific order as well. I'm also curious to know if the dog must swim a straight line to the bird and if you can control the dog's direction with voice or hand signals.

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You might have a hard time convincing me "more of a NAVHDA BRED DOG"....As we do not pursue NAVHDA typically, but anyone that does pursue it with our dogs don't seem to have any complaints :wink: I did not mean that in any bad way. I meant to infer that there were more NAVHDA prized dogs than other...

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I didn't say take off the collar. He was carrying around the transmitter at every step. My dogs wear their ecollars every time they go out even though most of the time it's turned off. I don't want a collar-wise dog either.

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Boy, that dog really wants that ball, doesn't he? It's like the drug sniffing dogs and the towel they use to teach them.

I wonder why he doesn't just get rid of that transmitter. That dog doesn't look like it needs it.

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I'm sure Brenda doesn't remember me but I did talk to her about getting a puppy a couple of years ago. I do a lot of NAVHDA stuff with my dogs. I ended up getting more of a NAVHDA-bred dog two years ago (see his link in my signature). Brenda was very helpful when I spoke to her. I'll be at the test ...

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True, those are better words to use. My point was only that you'd need to tell the judges what your plan was so they didn't assume the dog flushed the bird on it's own. In seven years of NAVHDA events I've never seen a dog sent in for the flush. I think most handlers would be terrified to even attem...

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It would be nice to meet Brenda face to face at the UT test in GA.

How do you find out about the water tests? I don't see them in the "search" function the AKC's website.

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NAVHDA would question desire NAVHDA has a section in the Green Book about teaching flusing on command. So does the AHDC's (American Hunting Dog Club) training manual. I can't think of a situation in a NAVHDA test where the judges would allow the dog to flush the bird. However, if the handler turned...

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I really enjoy hunting blues. I've found in recent years that the blues actually run LESS than the public ground bobwhites and the singles hold real tight.

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Yes, assuming she can't catch them.

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sweetsong wrote:I'm thinking about keeping my journal on my computer.

I've been planning on putting that log into excel and have different cells to search on in the future. I figured I could have one file for each year and create a worksheet for each day hunted that year. Lots of possibilities.

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I've kept one since I started hunting so I feel I can't stop now! I made one that I keep in a three-ring binder for the year. I transfer that one to a larger binder at the end of the season that contains all the years. Here's what mine looks like: Date: Location: Public Private Walk-In Preserve Othe...

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A little update Had both recievers die on me with in 2 weeks of each other :( but had to wait till the holidays were over to talk with TT. They said it was the first time they have gotten a problem like mine. So they are shipping me out a new set. Great customer service 8) I have a multi-sport 2s t...

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Honey gives a dog a quick boost but the dog comes down off that faster and crashes, so to speak. This is where maltodextrin comes in. It is a different type of sugar and the dog doesn't come down as hard from it. Most of that information is from sled dog people, too. The purina bars are a maltodextr...

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Greg is right on. The sled dog racers feed their dogs as close to 24 hours before they run as they can. Dogs are designed to run on an empty stomach. Running hard with food in their stomachs causes problems like runny and bloody stools. I feed my dogs once a day in the evening as soon after we stop ...

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