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Hello (again), This is a bit weird posting again… it was a different time last I was on here. I got my first bird dog 15 years ago, an English pointer I named Dixie. I was 23, clueless about life, but I had a great dog. Had access to land and birds and thought it would be a shame if I didn’t teach h...

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Hello (again), This is a bit weird posting again… it was a different time last I was on here. I got my first bird dog 15 years ago, an English pointer I named Dixie. I was 23, clueless about life, but I had a great dog. Had access to land and birds and thought it would be a shame if I didn’t teach h...

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I’m not scientist but I don’t believe that to be the super harmful Cyanobacteria. That looks like run of the mill fibrous pond scum. We’ve been having issues w the blue green algae where I live in south Florida and it’s a killer. It looks more like a green film/plume on the water. Once it starts dyi...

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Ive been looking into upgrading my wal mart bought dog bed for something a little better. The walmart bed has bare spots worn in it and the fill has flattened a little bit and it just plain looks nasty. As a fly fisherman Im well aware of Orvis dog beds and think they look good, but I have no experi...

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i have the tick twister. i bought 6 months worth of this new flea and tick stuff which didnt work so i was having to constantly pull them off and that one time out of 20 the head detached and got left in the dog. the tick was tiny and i tried like heck to get the head out with tweezers but all i did...

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no i really do appreciate the honesty on this forum, which is why i have (sorta) kept up with it for the past 3 years. The people on here have been a great asset to me and i have always been able to get answers to many questions. i feel like this is a virtual family in a way. looking back i should h...

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I have never heard of doing that, but I know that my mother had two labs and one died. The other lab for weeks acted sad and would go and lay in the trailer that they used to move the other lab with when they burried him. interesting. we had a golden retriever with cancer put down years ago. the ja...

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I'm the alpha dog at my house but please don't lay me out for my dogs to sniff when I'm gone. I'm sorry to hear you have to put your Jack down. After 17 years that has got to be tough. I'm interested in the condition of your 17 year old Jack. Is the arthritis bad? What have you noticed about his he...

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i have never been one to give dogs human traits, i just figured this might help them avoid the confusion and wondering where the other dog went. its not that im trying to let them mourn or anything like that, just figured they would want the information that Spike wont be around anymore and why. dog...

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Hey guys, well, my parents are going to put down their 17 year old jack russell in the next day or two and this has given way to a question. Should i let the rest of the pack (1 pointer, a coonhound, and a 12 year old jack russell) smell the dog after the deed is done? my thinking is that it will gi...

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i have a recall pen and that works fine for me, but there was a time when i was first starting out and birds were hard to come by when i had tied the quail to a lead fishing weight (a big one) i would zip tie a piece of string, which was probably a good 20 ft or so, and the string would go from the ...

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i live in south florida and the only trainer i found was down in jupiter. the place was called palmetto point kennels i believe. i think they got rid of their website though. give me a day and ill look for some old emails from the trainer there. at least i could get you a phone number.

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hey all- How many of you dress your birds in the field? i have never needed to since we have always hunted close to camp and usually have someone following close behind in a buggy with the other half of the dogs we hunt with, but this year im planning on doing some major walking, just me and my dog....

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razor- SPARE ME!! i was just curious to know where the birds are, and if i can arrange it so im going to school within a couple hours drive of a place to hunt then so be it. you have to be absolutely NUTS to think that 110% of my time would be spent with my nose in a book, and for people who cant ta...

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FLocker- i noticed the familiar looking foliage and saw your handle name and put 2 and 2 together. whereabouts in FL do you live/hunt?

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i did the majority of my training solo. one thing i can say is remote launchers remote launchers and remote launchers. as for gun breaking, you should try to get someone to help you with that, depending on your method.

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i have a G3 that now sits in a drawer collecting dust. the half mile range was nothing, especially if you get into cover. bought a G2 and have been 100% satisfied.

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i wish they would do something about the wild bird populations here. QU says urban growth and development are to blame, which im sure is true, but i live on 850 acres and the closest "civilization" is 22 miles to the east. north west and south of me are hundred of thousands of acres of florida scrub...

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there is always the possibilty of going as far as to get my Ph. D as well. i always thought being a professional student would be an interesting direction.

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flocker, the problem has never been how much money i can make so much as finding a job right now. im pretty much guaranteed a job with an MS within the first year of graduation and thats what i need. i realize i have been referring to getting my MBA, instead of my MS. sorry, thats what happens when ...

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dont know if you are around any horse people, but they usually have the "in" with a tack shop. i would check with any place that sells horse tack. i get my collars with the plates already on, but its VERY simple if you can find someone who can etch whatever you want on the metal piece. the ones i ha...

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and as far as being able to afford it... im going to have to take out a humongous loan anyway. whats another 10 or 20 grand over the rest of my life!? :roll:

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tommy- you are correct, OSU does have one. i had been looking at texas a&m as well as texas tech, even before i started this thread. i figure ill apply to 10 or so schools and see who accepts me and go from there. ill try for this spring (after the hunting season of course) i feel ya on the finance ...

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thanks everyone for the info. i will let you know how it goes. Ayres-are you sure youre not my mom posing as a GDF mod?! my sole interest in going back to school is to learn, but i must have a balance between my studies and recreation or ill go crazy. i ended up taking a semester off during my under...

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i agree with 1doogie, it is never too early to start. i started my dog at around 3-4 months and wish i would have started earlier. by the time i was finishing up her early training, she was starting to really pull a lot on the check cord. it would have been a lot easier to hold that little white bal...

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Hey Guys, Recently, I've begun to seriously considering going back to school to get my MBA. There's not much work in my area right now and figure might as well go back to school with all the time left on my hands. I've decided that if I'm going to do this, I'll most likely be going out of state sinc...

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nice. im all about the homemade stuff. I would put the fabric in to launch the bird only for the fact that i wouldnt want there to be chance of a delay from the time i pull the cord till the time the bird flies out. i have lazy birds, the whole thing basically needs to be instantaneous: pull cord/bi...

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looks like id be out of luck since they dont come down to FL. I just flew two dogs from Dallas to Reno that cost me 150.00 for a 8 month old GSP and 125.00 for a 7 week old pup on American Airlines. I didnt think that was too bad... those prices are the same or better than the petairways. not sure i...

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I have a 2.5 year old EP who i spayed right after her first heat, around 10 months. there are certain weeks where she gets underweight, so from my experience, they dont get fat after getting fixed. i second picking a good litter when looking at such young dogs. what i always try to do is pick one th...

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i used to throw my dogs poop in the holes she already dug. since she was pretty much trying to dig out under the fence in specific places so it was fast and easy to get her to stop. but it did work.

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i had a problem with my EPs ears awhile back. she was getting raw spots on the tips of her ears, little scabs, swelling. ended up that she had an ear infection and was shaking her head so much that her ears were hitting anything nearby. maybe she has an ear infection? do the ears smell? maybe you ha...

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doubleB,

your birds will realize where their food is so that should keep them coming back. I would make a little ramp leading up to the entrance of your johnny house.

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i bought a classic 70 for $319. i got it at Gander Mountain, but i normally go thru LCSupply. i wouldnt pay more than 319 for a classic 70 unless you can find a refurbished one on collar clinic.

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had a friend once who used to feed his lab Ol Roy, and to this day he blames the food for giving the dog cancer. not saying it causes cancer, just putting my story of the stuff out there.

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i agree with all the above comments although i dont have any experience as far as getting a dog to swim in cold water since the water temps here never get below 70 really. one thing that i found got my EP to swim like a fish was i let her watch my friends lab go after a bumper thrown in the water. i...

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Ghillie- this is basically a bird house. the one pictured can hold about 30 bobs. when using them for training you can let a few out and leave a few in and the ones left in will call back the other birds once you are finished with them. i have a one way funnel system so they can get in, but not out....

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for the roof i just put a scrap piece of tin roof (we got a lot of it after 4 hurricanes met with our 30 barns) on the top and nailed it down with 1 inch nails. i didnt slope it or anything just because i wasnt really worried about it. as far as using a net... i have room in the aviary to stick a ne...

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heres a few that are quite the opposite of the snow scapes. took these at the beach. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/strokin03/l_e03421dd0f6314fdf6f7720d5bb13f8a.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/strokin03/l_40f2bc33466f7cf048fa5733d5b8fa5d.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/str...

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Jeff, I dont have any pictures of the inside and I'm not using the JH at the moment so it would do no good to take more pictures, BUT I would highly recommend the tube style feeder and waterer just because there is no way for the birds to foul either of it. I have used all sorts of things as feeders...

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you can take a look at a thread i posted a couple of years ago. it has a picture of the frame of my JH. if you take a look you can see how i built an aviary box type deal that juts out from the rest of the JH. heres the link to the thread: http://gundogforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=6613 i wou...

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ive also had issues with trying to keep the nails short. i trim about twice a month yet they are still fairly long for my taste but have come to accept that my dog just has long nails. they dont touch the floor or anything but anyways. i bought one of those as seen on TV pedipaws things. dont get it...

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thanks for the replies guys. the preceding morning after the injury she was walking at about 90%. kept her off it for another full day and everything seems to be back to normal :D . i believe she either turned on it wrong or stepped in one of these darned armadillo holes that are starting to litter ...

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My pointer walked up to me this morning with a limp after i let her out in the yard. upon further inspection i found that it was her front left leg was the one giving her the problem. the paw looks a tiny bit swollen, she is not putting any weight on it and when i bend the foot back she yelps. do do...

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ezzy, i see what youre saying. thanks for the good advice. i probably wont be giving her free reign of the place anymore. she has jumped a rabbit a couple of times that lives in the bushes im feeding Diamond Performance which is a 30/20 mix, which i think is pretty good. i havent been able to find a...

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ezzy,

im curious to know what new set of problems may arise by letting her run?

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I recently just moved from my one bedroom apartment on the beach to a house on 800 acres. due to this change, my dog pretty much just runs all day, instead of an hour on the beach once a day. because shes been running so much more, naturally she has been losing weight. shes a 2 year old that has bee...

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this is what i would do if i were in your situation. rather than use an ecollar... If you havent worked on the "come" command, now would be a good time to start. start with a checkcord thats at least 20ft long. Go out for a walk with the dog attached to the cord. Every once and a while when the dog ...

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I HIGHLY recommend the Perfect Start and Perfect Finish DVD set by Perfection Kennels. You can order it from their website. Here is the link: http://www.perfectionkennel.com/video_series.htm I bought these DVDs without having a clue how to train a dog and they were a huge help. The series teaches yo...

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i would jst move if it was too much of a problem. it sounds like there are multiple dogs living there now as it is... a house with all those dogs livin inside would get old fast. i had a roommate that had a lab and a coonhound and im glad im living by myself now. especially if its a pit. they can be...

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