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- Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Feeding your dog
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3269
Re: Feeding your dog
You can tell best how much to feed by looking at the dog. I feed a 40+ pound male britt 2 cups of PPP a day and a 35 or so pound dog about 1-3/4, my two females 30 pounds or so bet a cup a day. This is total, not twice, once per day. They are performance dogs and trained/roaded consistently. They st...
- Wed Feb 19, 2014 2:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: which gets you a placement
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14684
Re: which gets you a placement
I have only been in trials for 5 years but I have yet to see or hear of a birdless dog winning a broke dog stake....AF included. I am sure there are examples but they are few and far between...
- Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: which gets you a placement
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14684
Re: which gets you a placement
It is a rare day that a dog can win without genetic given style nurtured by a competent trainer in an open stake. Ground application, intensity and bird sense can all be mutually exclusive but not In a consistently winning dog. These questions are not about the dog they are about people. Field trial...
- Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:10 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Training days without e-collar an launcher
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4952
Re: Training days without e-collar an launcher
I am guessing Ben O Williams as well
- Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Horseback Trial Question
- Replies: 59
- Views: 27304
Re: Horseback Trial Question
At some point when you are judging, especially in an hour, and especially when you are liking what you see, a judge will ask to switch off dogs so that both get a chance to see the dog with adequate attention.
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Hey Chukar12!! When you going to fill us in on the news?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3180
Re: Hey Chukar12!! When you going to fill us in on the news?
Hey...I plum missed this post. I was chukar hunting, trialing and working. Nice of you to ask huston! My two boys went to Arizona after Christmas and ran in the trials there...The American Brittany Club Western Open All-Age was the first AKC Grand Field Champion thingie in the country. The champions...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 5:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Decline of Field Trials
- Replies: 249
- Views: 81088
Re: Decline of Field Trials
The generation gap cannot be solved, as long as i can remember, have read in books, seen on the TV, heard on radio, read in Morse code,seen depicted in hieroglyphics, etc... Somebody has said you are too young and or you are too old to deserve, understand, blah,blah,blah... If you are inclined to qu...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Decline of Field Trials
- Replies: 249
- Views: 81088
Re: Decline of Field Trials
I believe it is mostly cultural. As described, entertainment has been transformed dramatically. The formative ages are over run with electronically created stimulus. That is a difficult habit to break; even if we felt compelled to try and frankly I don’t think as a whole we care to. Those of us who ...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: How to keep the tradition alive?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4623
Re: How to keep the tradition alive?
I suppose like all traditions the overwhelming factor is the cultural motivation of the populace. Instant results, if not gratification is the enemy of dog training and can be the dark side of harvesting fish and game. Technology and an ever increasing desire for faster and constant entertainment ma...
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 1:35 pm
- Forum: Hunting
- Topic: WILD TIMES for New Year's
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2382
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 1:28 pm
- Forum: Hunting
- Topic: WILD TIMES for New Year's
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2382
WILD TIMES for New Year's
I took an old friend, an old dog, and a really old dog to the desert to help ring in the new year. The human was good company talking sports, politics, dogs, family, friends and business; the year behind us and the one to come. The dogs neither hinted at or mentioned any of it. We complained of ache...
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The Retrieve = as Important
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9385
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 9:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Stormy exploring cover
- Replies: 3
- Views: 963
Re: Stormy exploring cover
Beautiful puppy Don...looks like it is fitting right in the Fisher pack
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:50 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Puppy Wont Point
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18658
Re: Puppy Wont Point
The point is that some drills are no more difficult,effective or ineffective...you chooses which based on what you want to achieve... than most basic dog obedience exercises. With due respect it does not take much talent to make a dog retrieve and stand birds. Lots of ways to do it. Very similar to ...
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:33 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Some one who can explain it better than I can....
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10212
Re: Some one who can explain it better than I can....
Bill T
The answer is no...whether you use a handsaw or a power saw wrong the lumber is still cut.
The answer is no...whether you use a handsaw or a power saw wrong the lumber is still cut.
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:22 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Puppy Wont Point
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18658
Re: Puppy Wont Point
If I have to "teach" or verbally command (whoa) a pointing dog to point... Me too, but I have no problem at all with teaching "whoa" to produce a broke dog. In fact, if you can do it without I'd pay big money to learn it from you. Well I fear we may be caught up in what whoa means but if you mean t...
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:24 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Puppy Wont Point
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18658
Re: Puppy Wont Point
If I have to "teach" or verbally command (whoa) a pointing dog to point...I want a different dog. I would be really shocked if your GSP did not point fairly rapidly with a minimal amount of live bird contact. Any simulation of wild birds poses a risk. A risk that dogs will not respect birds. I see i...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:42 am
- Forum: Please Welcome New Members - Introduce Yourself Here!
- Topic: Strange Situation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2174
Re: Strange Situation
Dale, This is likely an exceptionally long process to overcome an entrenched behavior. Whatever the cause may be you have to now accept that the dog is who he is. Dogs have triggers; as do humans that incite the undesirable behavior. The way to overcome it is sustained and controlled confrontation o...
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Field trial question...kind of a weird one.
- Replies: 43
- Views: 16581
Re: Field trial question...kind of a weird one.
Not to change the subject...but what kind of kibble was Lassie on? Looks very healthy in that photo...
- Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Field trial question...kind of a weird one.
- Replies: 43
- Views: 16581
Re: Field trial question...kind of a weird one.
SK is a show off...
Has a 10 year old daughter that can ride like the wind, handle dogs and put a gooseneck horse trailer anywhere it needs to be
Has a 10 year old daughter that can ride like the wind, handle dogs and put a gooseneck horse trailer anywhere it needs to be
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:20 pm
- Forum: Hunting
- Topic: Nevada bird Hunting?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4078
Re: Nevada bird Hunting?
As Fishvik stated most of the ranges in the region will hold birds, you are in the heart of Chukar country there...and I would have strong suspicions the ranch you are on will be loaded with Valley Quail.
- Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Pup and Old Timers Fun
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3900
Re: Pup and Old Timers Fun
Great shooting Doc...I refer of course to your camera work
Joe
Joe
- Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Puppy time
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14854
Re: Puppy time
Congratulations Don I hope to see the puppy this spring
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:40 am
- Forum: Please Welcome New Members - Introduce Yourself Here!
- Topic: A little about you...
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 874684
Re: A little about you...
Fun Dog
Welcome it will be nice to hear your perspective on performance dogs. It appears there are now an endless supply of feeding related discourse...you would rapidly be my favorite poster if you would sort it out. All kidding aside...welcome again
Welcome it will be nice to hear your perspective on performance dogs. It appears there are now an endless supply of feeding related discourse...you would rapidly be my favorite poster if you would sort it out. All kidding aside...welcome again
- Sat Nov 23, 2013 8:11 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Wild Alaskan salmon, the 1000 mile dog race food
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33363
Re: Wild Alaskan salmon, the 1000 mile dog race food
....and by the way, I will cover whatever bet you care to make that the winner of every breed national next year is fed kibble...I will take it further and take Purina and Loyall and you can have the field. At years end I am money way ahead. I have another thought, nay...a proclamation. If you were ...
- Sat Nov 23, 2013 8:02 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Wild Alaskan salmon, the 1000 mile dog race food
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33363
Re: Wild Alaskan salmon, the 1000 mile dog race food
I just fed two of the Brittany's competing in the ABC National Championships Pro Plan and witnessed most of the others being fed the same.
- Fri Nov 22, 2013 3:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: atvs and trials
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11560
Re: atvs and trials
There is an AKC rule that says you have to dismount, but nothing that I read in the AF-AFTCA guidelines
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:23 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Question...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7349
Re: Question...
In the USA we still have private ownership in a number of things. Websites are one of them. You have a constitutional right to speak your mind however, you may have to provide your own medium to deliver it. In another thought, it is considered in poor taste to barge in to the party and immediately s...
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:12 am
- Forum: Brags
- Topic: Old Timers Brag
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7120
Re: Old Timers Brag
That's quite a run Doc...and thanks for being a shutter bug guy. We all get to enjoy the ride through your pictures.
Joe
Joe
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:19 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: to approved bitches.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7598
Re: to approved bitches.
I just want a t shirt that says this
- Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:20 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Wind Type and Scent
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5540
Re: Wind Type and Scent
Come on guys, air is air. Speed of movement, temperature of the air, humidity, and probably a thousand other things all can effect what the dog smells but I don't think you can see a difference that is caused directly from the direction it is moving.Ezzy I believe it is other factors as well, the w...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Wind Type and Scent
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5540
Re: Wind Type and Scent
I find that a cold north wind is usually dry, and whether it is hunting wild birds or watching dogs in a trial; conditions and places that dogs smell birds in go barren in the north wind. I don't know if its a western thing, the great basin or what? However, in reviewing my notes reporting at the Br...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Wind Type and Scent
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5540
Wind Type and Scent
What is your opinion of wind and scent? Have you noticed, and or been taught that the direction the wind blows from has an effect on a dog's ability to scent birds?
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:56 am
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Any of you feed raw?
- Replies: 423
- Views: 126801
Re: Any of you feed raw?
What a piddling waste of time and here I am entering the fray once again, a part of the problem rather than the solution. I hate myself. Whether or not you choose to feed a raw diet to an animal is an individuals choice. However, arguing that by doing so you are in some way, shape or form a superior...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 2:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Is Pointing Genetic?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 27370
Re: Is Pointing Genetic?
Yeah I am not intentionally arguing either I think the discussion is interesting. In most of my experience prior to say the last 6 years, is that most of the pointing dogs I have been around, for all intents and purposes "broke" themselves. A high percentage of the dogs I encounter in the desert of ...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Is Pointing Genetic?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 27370
Re: Is Pointing Genetic?
Don't we only get two choices based on what we know regarding behavior?
Genetics or environmental conditioning?
Genetics or environmental conditioning?
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 9:10 am
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Vet visit and diet.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8831
Re: Vet visit and diet.
it is odd
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:55 am
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Vet visit and diet.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8831
Re: Vet visit and diet.
Vet: ok everything looks good here, I suggest feeding xyz because of abc.
Me: thank you for your input, I will give it some thought. I appreciate what you do, and have a good day.
Me: thank you for your input, I will give it some thought. I appreciate what you do, and have a good day.
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:08 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: SHOOTING UNPOINTED BIRDS
- Replies: 89
- Views: 31851
Re: SHOOTING UNPOINTED BIRDS
I have avoided the details in this because it has gone a place i doubt either side is pleased with...however, I did see a reference to a 6-9 month old dog. If I am forced to speak in generalities, i will say this makes little difference in the scheme of things. I personally do not do it, perhaps as ...
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:54 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: DAVE WALKER
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8852
Re: DAVE WALKER
I have a personal belief that gets stronger every day that most good dog/horse trainers are extremely patient with animals and less so with people...mask wrote:He is a little grumpy but still willing to help anyone that asks.
This is the excuse i give my wife to avoid social interaction...I am in training
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: DAVE WALKER
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8852
Re: DAVE WALKER
If the website is accurate he is in the ABC Hall of Fame elected in 2007, but not the BFTHOF.
http://clubs.akc.org/brit/ABCHallOfFame.htm
http://clubs.akc.org/brit/ABCHallOfFame.htm
- Tue Oct 08, 2013 4:55 pm
- Forum: Health and Nutrition
- Topic: Any of you feed raw?
- Replies: 423
- Views: 126801
Re: Any of you feed raw?
Anyone that doesn't admit that feeding fresh, raw food to a canine is better than bagged dry food is simply being intellectually dishonest. The question is not whether it is better, rather is it worth the trouble or not and is it possible for everyone.There is no question that when it comes to oral...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:15 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Training help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1139
Re: Training help
What the difference between correcting, re enforcing, and teaching I have heard differently from other around me I think you will probably continue to hear different based on the context and point of view you receive the information from. Short of simply defining the terms and focusing the answer s...
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Is Pointing Genetic?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 27370
Re: Is Pointing Genetic?
If its not genetic why are breeds different ? Why wouldn't hounds point coons before they grab them?
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:03 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: trial question
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9438
Re: trial question
Mayish ... Doc details to come
we would love to confirm and order you a lovely gift
we would love to confirm and order you a lovely gift
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: trial question
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9438
Re: trial question
It is important to network with American Filed and other breed clubs and make yourself valuable and available to judge for them...trading assignments with competent people outside the inner circle is good business and really helps with the perception issue of nepotism in our judging. In the spirit ...
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: trial question
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9438
Re: trial question
Arlette, this is certainly a challenge. I hate to sound like a broken record, but field trials are a voluntary activity not just for participants but the administration and judging as well. We have an expectation to receive a service that meets a written standard without an efficient and accountable...
- Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:49 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Pistol for bears?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 47670
Re: Pistol for bears?
..better safe than sorry if you can carry
- Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:57 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: trial question
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9438
Re: trial question
Nope, and it is hard to define over the internet and not difficult in person when you are hearing it.. and the judges authority is clear enough to straighten out any argument quick enough
- Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:48 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: American brittany lines
- Replies: 66
- Views: 30974