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I'm a biologist, so I know there is a huge difference between research and the application of research. Purinas business model requires high volumes of sales, which nessitates lower quality ingredients. Brewers rice is still waste rice, and corn and wheat are used because they are dirt cheap, no ma...

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From the WI DNR website: http://dnr.wi.gov/News/Weekly/ New and improved bird hunting dog training license now available MADISON - Training dogs for bird hunting is a popular activity throughout Wisconsin, and an improved licensing process coupled with new public lands open for dog training will mak...

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I don't know where you are in WI, but I offer a story regarding my sister's chocolate lab that sounds kind of similar to your situation. My sister and her husband lived in the Green Bay area when they got a chocolate lab puppy. The puppy had similar issues as you describe though maybe not as severe,...

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CJ, I am not against using something besides lead but to answer your questions, I find little reason to worry about lead abatement since we worked on pre 1980 homes for many years before there was such a thing as a lead problem. Most of us of my era chewed lead paint off of our cribs several times....

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CJ, I am not against using something besides lead but to answer your questions, I find little reason to worry about lead abatement since we worked on pre 1980 homes for many years before there was such a thing as a lead problem. Most of us of my era chewed lead paint off of our cribs several times....

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My dog got Lymes while on both a topical tick prevenative and the vaccine. For several years after my vet told me I'd be wasting my money if I continued to give her the vaccine, but last year he said the school of thought had changed and now recommended I giver her the vaccine. So I started giving h...

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Hunt them together. As long as the lab is well trained you'll be fine. When my setter or my parent's brittanies go on point I will heel my lab and then make her sit (and stay) away from the point while I work the bird.

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So that's what you mean by which dogs have the best network - like, you know, CBS with the big eye logo coming up on screen? MG now you guys are getting it! Spent the weekend running coaxial and installing the dish on the dog house. Trying to decide between netflix or hulu at the moment...... :wink...

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My setter pointing a grouse. You can see the grouse on the ground before it flushes and then watch it fly over my setter's head. Put it in HD for better quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-2F2cnp68

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A couple videos of my setter pointing a woodcock in the last week or so. You can hear the woodcock in flight in one and see and hear it in the other. Put them in HD for better quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_oRgD3Hss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xBT53UJ6_Q

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I was in your shoes 6 years ago when I got my english setter puppy. I have been running them together since day one. When training though I will bring both with me, but one is on the chain gang with the other is being trained. Only when formal training is complete will I let them both run at the sam...

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Found three more this afternoon.

And here's a good video. Like the first videos put it in HD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_oRgD3Hss

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There's one big problem with buying from breeding like this. At 8 weeks you don';t have a clue if you got the big runner you want, a shooting dog, a foot dog or a boot polisher. I think that breeders that are really trying to create better trial dog's keep them the better part of the first year to ...

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I can't make the WI cover dog trial this weekend due to prior commitments, but hopefully will make the WI cover dog trial next weekend.

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After more than two weeks of searching and we finally found a woodcock in NE WI this afternoon (3/24/15). See the video in the link below. Put it in HD for better quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDzVv7jpV1Q Here is a grouse point from this afternoon as well. Again put it in HD and full scre...

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That video made me laugh. The look on the setter creeping in is great.

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At home my dogs are not allowed on the furniture unless called, and that is very rare. At the cottage yes only because the rest of my family allows their dogs on the furniture.

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I've been trying to find woodcock for the past week and while we haven't found any so far we have found some grouse. A couple pictures from this weekend. Tico (english setter) pointing a grouse with Summit (lab) honoring her point or backing. http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l265/Summit_02/03151512...

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I helped out a friend and his church group on a game farm 'hunt' about 5 years ago. I had my seasoned lab and young pointing dog. I hunted the two separately and my lab caught well over 90% of the birds. It was a joke. I was throwing up the birds my lab retrieved to me for the hunters to shoot. One ...

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Never could figure out why one needs special pants to go hunting. Everybody I know wears Jeans. I have been going more toward Carrhart Bibs as my belly gets a bit bigger. The legs need to be tailored a bit because the are huge. Comfort and light weight are most important. I don't like being locked ...

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For late season I love my Cabela's waxed Chaps. Great in grouse woods, but they are too warm if it isn't cold. I have a few different pants, but my favorite are a pair of Columbia's before they got too big (company not the pants). Columbia's quality has seemed to go down the last several years. Unfo...

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It sounds like you would like something other than a lab, and that is perfectly okay. I did the same, believe me you don't see many Britts down here, but I wanted something a little different! Look at the Draht, german wirehair, boykin, springer, or a chesapeake. The chesapeke may not be the easies...

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I've been hunting my lab and my english setter together for a long time and hunt both with GWP's and brittanies on a regular basis as well. The combination of a flushing dog with a pointing dog is hard to beat. My lab will honor a point or I will heel my lab and sit her away from the point while eit...

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I will guarantee you that a GSP will out hunt a Lab in the upland field if you are using the standard of which covers the most ground for the longest time. I will guarantee you a Lab will out retrieve a GSP in any cold water. Both are nothing we can take credit for since the breeds were bred(built)...

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The answers are pretty much what I expected on this forum. There Is a huge preference to upland dogs from many of the members. It's not a bad thing, just something I have noticed. As far as the plumber or electrician question, I think of the Lab as a general contractor. Like the GWP they are a fant...

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Check this video out below of my 16 month old GSP. Notice how my pup relocates on the wild quail that are running. I am sure this would not be good in a trial, but she does pin the birds in and we get the birds. I am wondering what you guys would recommend as far as training going forward? Thoughts...

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Use a great deal of caution launching bob's from a remote. Pen raised birds can be extremely bad flyer's and you could well have one come back down in front of your dog as fast as it went up. That will teach it it can catch them on the ground. Start all over and do it with pigeon's. Keep your moth ...

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It is a well known fact that camo is based on shades of the same predominant color you are wanting to hide in Believe it or not but white is a dead give away as far as hiding. That is the main reason albinos have little chance to survive for long in the wild because they can not hide. But when it s...

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I went to the National Bird Dog Museum in 2013 and had a great time. My brother-in-law was with me and don't think he was too excited when I insisted that we go, but when we got there I think he had as much fun as I did. He's got GWP's and spent a lot of time looking for his dogs lineage since most ...

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My dog club has partnered with the DNR to buy prairie seed for the dog training and trial grounds. We've had mixed success. One issue right now is invasives. Crowned vetch and multiflora rose are the two biggest culprits, but there are some others that are present. The little bluestem does seem to ...

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My dog club has partnered with the DNR to buy prairie seed for the dog training and trial grounds. We've had mixed success. One issue right now is invasives. Crowned vetch and multiflora rose are the two biggest culprits, but there are some others that are present. The little bluestem does seem to b...

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I can tell you right now if any one that has posted on this whole thread feels insulted you are wanting to be insulted. Why can anyone state their ideas as good and accurate information while judging everyone else's opinion as being insulting.? Come on people, everyone and every dog is different. T...

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Thin skin has nothing to do with it. I like calling out bull crap and that's what your claim was.

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I can tell you right now if any one that has posted on this whole thread feels insulted you are wanting to be insulted. Why can anyone state their ideas as good and accurate information while judging everyone else's opinion as being insulting.? Come on people, everyone and every dog is different. T...

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My problem as I think Ms. Cage and I pretty clearly stated this. Is why can the few trailers on here not except the fact that some people are not interested in trialing. Neither one of us said a word against the dogs. Not one word against the dogs? :roll: The sentence right before that claim may no...

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I would say when it comes to grouse hunting there are a lot of hunters that look for trial dog breeding especially cover dog breedings Only if they are looking at EP's and ES's. . Dogs that prove themselves on the very same game that people are hunting are often looked at favorably I find this true...

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Were I limited to only hunting small tracts and shooting preserves I would join in the trend. fortunately many are prairie hunters, big woods grouse hunters, etc. I would say when it comes to grouse hunting there are a lot of hunters that look for trial dog breeding especially cover dog breedings. ...

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Where's the camo? Reminds me of old photographs of my grandfather on Sunday afternoon wearing a tie while hanging out in the backyard after church.

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Field trials are the gauge for field trial dogs, not all bird dogs. because they are competition between field trial dogs. Obviously trial dogs are bird dogs and will hunt. I have master titled many trial bred dogs. My biggest issue is that trial dogs mostly do not need a retrieve, they do not need...

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My highlight of this hunting season was immediately after taking runner-up at the Didcot Classic, which included an hour brace and a half hour in a call back on wild birds, we went across the road and and hunted grouse for another 4 hours. I had a long relaxing drive home with a nice placement and a...

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You'll smell when it's not in such good shape. :lol: Before I got into pointing dogs I liked to do retriever training. I went to a training day with a retriever club and they had duck carcasses that they just gutted and then filled the cavity with expanding foam. They would used them on land an in ...

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My good hunting buddy lost two female setters a couple of years back, one to Pyometra and the other to mammary cancer. In both cases, his dogs would have survived had they been spayed (at least that's the vet said). I've never experienced it, but all my females are spayed when they reach maturity. ...

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Anyone ever experience this with their female dog? I just had the unfortunate opportunity to deal with this disease with my setter. I bred my setter for the first time at the beginning of this month. She turned six during that time as well. The breeder had her for a week and she bred with the stud 4...

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Ms. Cage wrote: I KEEP ASKING MYSELF, WHO the heck DID I MISS?

You forgot some of the biggest welfare recipients such as BP, Exxon, ConAgra, Archer Daniels Midland, etc... Corporations are people too.

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A pointing dog and a flusher is a fantastic combination and can be hard to beat in my opinion. I've been running my English setter with my lab since I got my setter 6 years ago. My lab is now closing in on 11 (June 2) and she can't hunt nearly as hard as she did during her prime, but man what a trea...

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rkappes wrote:Buy a Sylmar vest.

My father has several of Sylmar vests for his brittanies and loves them. He always tells me they are great when it's cold, if it's warm out the dogs get too hot wearing them.

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Tico pointing a grouse this afternoon (1/19/2015)

After the flush and shot. I think she was annoyed with me for taking the picture.

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Nice. You had better luck that I did. I went out earlier in the week for a bit with my 10 year old lab. My setter was in MI getting bred so it was like old times with my lab except she's much older and can't hunt as hard as she used to. She got birdy a couple times, but we couldn't produce anything.

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Stop her as a stop to flush and shoot the birds encouraging her to hit the birds harder and freeze them, not track and creep. I'm not following you here. Can you explain that a little more? I understand the stop to flush training, but I'm confused as to how shooting the bird will encourage a dog to...

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I've hunted pheasant in below 0 temps and the dogs handled the weather fine if they were able to stay dry. I do remember one hunt where a young Brittany just shut down. She just stood there and nothing would make her move We ended up having to carry her back to the vehicle. She was fine earlier and ...

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