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by Cajun Casey
Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:46 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Got bad stuff need help!!!
Replies: 21
Views: 8561

Re: Got bad stuff need help!!!

kninebirddog wrote:Oh Ps on the DE around the horses livestock and kennels it has helped cut the flies a bunch not only dusting but also adding to their food.

in the bird pens it has helped there when used with regularity.
And your average relative humidity is?
by Cajun Casey
Tue Oct 01, 2013 12:32 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Got bad stuff need help!!!
Replies: 21
Views: 8561

Re: Got bad stuff need help!!!

Your beat defense is the IGR, either Methoprene or Nylar, which will last up to six months inside and keep the population from reproducing. There is a two week photostable concentrate from Martin's, I believe, but outside application of IGR is expensive because of required frequency. DE is useless a...
by Cajun Casey
Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:43 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Got bad stuff need help!!!
Replies: 21
Views: 8561

Re: Got bad stuff need help!!!

Is there some reason you can't use an area spray?
by Cajun Casey
Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:22 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Problem with rear legs Yellow Lab
Replies: 16
Views: 6560

Re: Problem with rear legs Yellow Lab

What are the EIC clearances on the parents?
by Cajun Casey
Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:11 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Ticks
Replies: 6
Views: 2199

Re: Ticks

Preventic collars are excellent.
by Cajun Casey
Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:08 am
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Any of you feed raw?
Replies: 423
Views: 124951

Re: Any of you feed raw?

Looking at the organizations Mercola supports, listed at the bottom of his home page, it's apparent that he has his own bias and agenda. And if the diet he promotes is so great, why does he market a bunch of supplements? The point is that you can find support for any position you wish to take. Dr. ...
by Cajun Casey
Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:46 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Any of you feed raw?
Replies: 423
Views: 124951

Re: Any of you feed raw?

If anyone would like accurate information on raw feeding, try www.mercola.com.
by Cajun Casey
Fri Sep 27, 2013 4:49 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Any of you feed raw?
Replies: 423
Views: 124951

Re: Any of you feed raw?

OK lets look at this discussion from another angle. From what I have read commercial dog food was never sold on store shelves until the early 1950s so what did everyone feed their dogs before then? I guess all the hunting dogs before 1950s were unhealthy. Can anyone recall grandpas dog or dogs as b...
by Cajun Casey
Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:26 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is Pointing Genetic?
Replies: 77
Views: 27051

Re: Is Pointing Genetic?

I have had a couple of natural backers. One will back a bucket.
by Cajun Casey
Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:39 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Dog foot
Replies: 20
Views: 7668

Re: Dog foot

Check PetFlow for delivery.
by Cajun Casey
Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:02 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Dog foot
Replies: 20
Views: 7668

Re: Dog foot

Canidae, which now has their own plant making most of their products.
by Cajun Casey
Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:26 am
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Dog foot
Replies: 20
Views: 7668

Re: Dog foot

Nutrisource by Tuffy's.
by Cajun Casey
Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:06 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Puppy shots
Replies: 3
Views: 1484

Re: Puppy shots

7/10/13/16 is how we roll.
by Cajun Casey
Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is Pointing Genetic?
Replies: 77
Views: 27051

Re: Is Pointing Genetic?

Chukar12 wrote:If its not genetic why are breeds different ? Why wouldn't hounds point coons before they grab them?
The phase of the prey sequence where truncation occurs is genetic. Coppinger, et al, had evidence to that.
by Cajun Casey
Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:29 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is Pointing Genetic?
Replies: 77
Views: 27051

Re: Is Pointing Genetic?

Individual discrimination in bloodhounds, hard eye in Border collies, gameness in terriers, running vs. treeing in Julys, grippiness in ACDs.......
by Cajun Casey
Wed Sep 25, 2013 10:29 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Solid White GSP
Replies: 34
Views: 16634

Re: Solid White GSP

Leucistic is the correct term.
by Cajun Casey
Tue Sep 24, 2013 9:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Solid White GSP
Replies: 34
Views: 16634

Re: Solid White GSP

It says he has "cute brown eyes" and is "in the process of being." Maybe he's transcending his breed.

Acutually, he looks like a hypomelanistic mutation. Miller (actually RWK) dogs have tickings of color.
by Cajun Casey
Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:29 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: My dog is afraid of fireworks but not shotguns
Replies: 6
Views: 5111

Re: My dog is afraid of fireworks but not shotguns

Fireworks are totally different. Thundershirt, crate, white noise, tranks, whatever it takes if he is really aprehensive. You will never cure it, only control it.
by Cajun Casey
Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:06 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Juvenile demodex
Replies: 40
Views: 16704

Re: Juvenile demodex

Our clinics have had success with our clients treating small outbreaks of demodex by using Advantage Multi for heartworm/parasite prevention. There's a paper somewhere in cyberspace if you search enough. Personally, I use amatraz tick collars with great results, a recommendation I also got from a v...
by Cajun Casey
Tue Sep 24, 2013 1:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Laser Pointers
Replies: 21
Views: 9022

Re: Laser Pointers

You might try a BLUE Kong, also, to redirect. We know dogs can see blue and are attracted to it over red through research.
by Cajun Casey
Tue Sep 24, 2013 12:50 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Juvenile demodex
Replies: 40
Views: 16704

Re: Juvenile demodex

Our clinics have had success with our clients treating small outbreaks of demodex by using Advantage Multi for heartworm/parasite prevention. There's a paper somewhere in cyberspace if you search enough. Personally, I use amatraz tick collars with great results, a recommendation I also got from a vet.
by Cajun Casey
Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Laser Pointers
Replies: 21
Views: 9022

Re: Laser Pointers

Just submitting my guess in the What Does B Stand For game.....
by Cajun Casey
Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:35 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Laser Pointers
Replies: 21
Views: 9022

Re: Laser Pointers

Keep fisching and guessing. Seems pretty simple to everyone that has raised dogs. :wink: I'm sorry topher... I must be a slow learner... raised dogs all my life but I don't follow you... please enlighten the less knowledgeable ones here... V-John... I think like any other problem, patience and a go...
by Cajun Casey
Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Laser Pointers
Replies: 21
Views: 9022

Re: Laser Pointers

Try redirecting to retrieving. You might also try a Click to Calm type program to get the dog focused on doing something else.
by Cajun Casey
Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:10 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: So many questions
Replies: 11
Views: 3423

Re: So many questions

Ask the breeder you are getting the pup from what they would recommend.
by Cajun Casey
Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:41 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: When is enough enough aggressive dog
Replies: 45
Views: 23288

Re: When is enough enough aggressive dog

Are you serious?? You tolerate that?? Yes. I don't care what they do on their own time, but they better knock it off when I tell them to. Obviously they are not actually scrapping, because if they were, you would care. Or do dead dogs not bother you? You just have pretend internet dogs, don't you?
by Cajun Casey
Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:20 am
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Parvo question
Replies: 12
Views: 4358

Re: Parvo question

We have gone back to recommending corinavirus vaccination at our clinics, also.
by Cajun Casey
Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:16 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What new dog for me? Langhaar, Setter, Golden?
Replies: 46
Views: 15107

Re: What new dog for me? Langhaar, Setter, Golden?

Pudelpointer or solid shorthair.
by Cajun Casey
Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:23 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: When is enough enough aggressive dog
Replies: 45
Views: 23288

Re: When is enough enough aggressive dog

Okay. Honestly, if I didn't break up a couple of scraps a day, I'd wonder if the mushrooms in the dog yards were "special." Your dog sounds normal. The fish oil (I'd be specific and recommend tuna oil) may help. The study mentioned was out of Italy last year. You might try getting him a special toy...
by Cajun Casey
Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:38 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tips ... the monetary kind
Replies: 29
Views: 8121

Re: Tips ... the monetary kind

Just for the sake of information, wait staff makes $2.10 per hour most of the time, plus tips.
by Cajun Casey
Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:23 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tips ... the monetary kind
Replies: 29
Views: 8121

Re: Tips ... the monetary kind

Is it a lodge employee or is the person on per diem and tips expected? 15% is standard in the restaurant industry now. I would say , if someone shows you an excellent time and works hard for you and has good dogs that make the hunt enjoyable they at least deserve what a great waiter would get.....t...
by Cajun Casey
Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:28 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Tips ... the monetary kind
Replies: 29
Views: 8121

Re: Tips ... the monetary kind

Is it a lodge employee or is the person on per diem and tips expected? 15% is standard in the restaurant industry now.
by Cajun Casey
Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Soooooo..what is wrong w/ AKC Hunt Tests
Replies: 123
Views: 34447

Re: Soooooo..what is wrong w/ AKC Hunt Tests

The only problem I have with AKC Hunt Tests is the same problem I have with AKC Field Trials. The call back to retrieve. The dog can give a class performance and blow it in a totally artificial, high pressure situation. I see this repeated often but fail to see the difference between the call back ...
by Cajun Casey
Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:55 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Soooooo..what is wrong w/ AKC Hunt Tests
Replies: 123
Views: 34447

Re: Soooooo..what is wrong w/ AKC Hunt Tests

The only problem I have with AKC Hunt Tests is the same problem I have with AKC Field Trials. The call back to retrieve. The dog can give a class performance and blow it in a totally artificial, high pressure situation. Even so, I will probably run Hunt Tests again some day. I don't know why you per...
by Cajun Casey
Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:22 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Question for the NSTRA folks
Replies: 9
Views: 4657

Re: Question for the NSTRA folks

Call UKC. They are the ones sanctioning pedigree championships for NSTRA.
by Cajun Casey
Sat Sep 07, 2013 10:42 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Just don't get it
Replies: 41
Views: 13216

Re: Just don't get it

I think you need to decide whether you want to train your dog to increasingly higher levels of performance or if you want to sit around all misty eyed and write stories. Why can't he do both. Hunt test judges are hired to judge dogs, not to volunteer training info on a dog they don't know, to a han...
by Cajun Casey
Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Just don't get it
Replies: 41
Views: 13216

Re: Just don't get it

I think you need to decide whether you want to train your dog to increasingly higher levels of performance or if you want to sit around all misty eyed and write stories.
by Cajun Casey
Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: GSP Education
Replies: 14
Views: 5839

Re: GSP Education

You say Slick, I think pointer. If the genes fit, wear 'em, baby. There are several books that trace the development of the breed from post-WWII through the early 1980s.
by Cajun Casey
Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: GSP Education
Replies: 14
Views: 5839

Re: GSP Education

You need to research your definition of "line" better. Putting Rawhide's Clown subordinate to Dixieland's Rusty makes no sense. They were both Moesgaard dogs, from different places and decades.

They are all dogs. How they are developed contributes more than anything else to the end product.
by Cajun Casey
Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:03 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What is my Brittanys major malfunction?
Replies: 14
Views: 5430

Re: What is my Brittanys major malfunction?

Check his hips, especially if he was a natural bobtail.
by Cajun Casey
Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:03 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: AKC approved tracking collars
Replies: 27
Views: 7168

Re: AKC approved tracking collars

It's on the AKC website.
by Cajun Casey
Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:46 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Cooling off after bad training sessions
Replies: 33
Views: 9037

Re: Cooling off after bad training sessions

Stop, lie down on the ground, look up at the sky and remember you are pretty much insignificant ign the overall scheme of things. Then, get over yourself.
by Cajun Casey
Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:27 pm
Forum: Health and Nutrition
Topic: Eukanuba & Iams Recall
Replies: 13
Views: 6285

Re: Eukanuba & Iams Recall

I hope this doesn't go the route of the last debacle. Four recalls, two of them total product line by the time it was over. Thanks, P&G. Not.
by Cajun Casey
Thu Aug 15, 2013 7:19 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: GSPs with EP bloodlines?
Replies: 215
Views: 75643

Re: GSPs with EP bloodlines?

No one will ever spend the $50K or so it would take to put a shorthair at the top of the American FIeld game and most owner handlers don't have the time.
by Cajun Casey
Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:56 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: GSPs with EP bloodlines?
Replies: 215
Views: 75643

Re: GSPs with EP bloodlines?

Ricky Ticky Shorthairs wrote:I'm kinda partial, but those Slick type dogs sure do win a lot on the national level. Just sayin. But then again, until I get Rob's 10 dollars I won't have a clue.

Doug
PM me your address and I'll send you my spare currencey checker. :D
by Cajun Casey
Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:50 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: GSPs with EP bloodlines?
Replies: 215
Views: 75643

Re: GSPs with EP bloodlines?

Ricky Ticky Shorthairs wrote:Not according to King Rob.
Well, one of these days, he be proven wrong.
by Cajun Casey
Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:41 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: GSPs with EP bloodlines?
Replies: 215
Views: 75643

Re: GSPs with EP bloodlines?

You boys can twist it any way you want. I still want to know how long it took you to watch EVERY GSP in the country, like your post implies. If you haven't seen every gsp that trials then stop announcing on the board what you can't prove. Slistoe-I'm not stupid. I have some "bleep" nice shorthairs,...
by Cajun Casey
Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: 4 yr old GSP- defiant/aggressive behavior
Replies: 49
Views: 20639

Re: 4 yr old GSP- defiant/aggressive behavior

You are an apologist for your dog. You are part of the problem not the solution. Casey I'm glad I don't have to teach my dogs how to behave. Or give them commands and reward them for them not biting me never heard of such a thing. This is not typical of a short hair I have three of them right now i...
by Cajun Casey
Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:43 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: 4 yr old GSP- defiant/aggressive behavior
Replies: 49
Views: 20639

Re: 4 yr old GSP- defiant/aggressive behavior

Sounds to me like the dog has never had a chance to do anything right and be rewarded and is being punished for defensive behavior. I'd like to see what goes down at doggy daycare. Bet he gets dominated by at least one other male dog. Shorthairs are sharp dogs. Get a different breed if you don't lik...