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May you ALL enjoy the best of companionship and running dogs together. Having the right special someone to share in the both the highs and the lows is truly wonderful. Congrats Don! You will have my hopes and desires it goes just as you think. I've got your back, Don, but wish it was mine and I cou...

Averageguy wrote I find it impossible to credibly argue I should have the freedom to breed a dog which cannot pass health screenings and be trained to pass a Hunt Test (which includes an evaluation of the dogs' coat and temperament) as the bare minimum requirements. The AKC side of my Breed is a gr...

Any new word on Ezzy? I am doing OK as of now with not a lot of pain except for my legs which are just so weak I have trouble getting up or down and I have to use a walker of some type to get around. So guess I shouldn't complain when I look at my age and see what some others are going through. I h...

First be aware most GSPs are not like that and he has probably been trained to act that way. Not intentionally. I use the Kohler method on dogs like him. His training books are cheap on amazon. they are old methods before the days of ecollars some methods he uses on bad dogs are brutal. But he trai...

Thanks for all of the replies. So from all of your post it seems to be pretty good. I’m posting a link here to Costco to see which type I should switch to once she’s off the puppy food. I’d also like to see if you think it will be a good choice to feed her throughout her life. I’m not sure if I go ...

I have often wondered just what people do to dogs that makes those dogs not want to retrieve. I used to train retriever classes and found that even the show bred labs wanted to retrieve but every now and then someone would turn up with a lab of work breeding that did not want to retrieve. This is s...

Well, as of last week I signed on for Hospice care since we can find nothing that is working on the Cancer, that is man made and Hospice and our prayers to our Heavenly Father seem to be the two items that are still here to help me through this. Just to keep you up to date I will try to post as thin...

Hi all: I'm new to the forum ... but not new to gun dogs. I have been hunting and training them since age twelve. That would be ... uh, let's see ... fifty-four years. Presently I have three dogs: Opal (black Lab soon to be twelve), Coral (aka "Puppy" French Brittany, age eight), and Ellie (aka "Sp...

Yes, new software. Nobody likes change. I'm struggling and learning along with the rest of you. Time should help us all get more comfortable with this software. If you click on a member's name you can still PM. There are changes that do not warrant learning and we may have the perfect example here ...

The nose is fine as it is. The standard refers to white spots and not just lighter pink.

Ezzy

It is a problem when you try to breed out a bacterial or virous caused problem. Since much of the heart disease we encounter is heartworm related it will likely never be bred out. If it is genetic it is easy to breed out if you could get the breeders to do it. And that is not likely to happen. Ezzy

THANK YOU ALL for your kind words. I will stick around as long as the good Lord thinks I can be of some help. Hopefully that will be for a while though I admit there are days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ezzy

The energy they use today was from what they have eaten in days past and not the day of the hunt.

Ezzy

Congrats guys! I have not seen where either of you had volunteered, which hopefully will works as a good excuse. And I am still confused as to who Andrew is. Glad you ar here and willing to help.

Al

shags wrote:I like a dog whose nose is as fast as his legs. Swapping ends at full tilt...nothing cooler

Amen. I will put up with an occasional flush in trade of the beauty and excitement of that swapping ENDS.

Ezzy

polmaise wrote:Something I heard 50 years ago was "Traditional training" .
Still hearing it today .
Most these days however add on the perception that they are doing something different .

This happens when people feelhe need to tell you how good they are rather than just letting the results take care of it.

Something I either heard or read 70 years ago is fastest and best method of training will usually break down to 70% positive and 30 % negative and now as I approach my 86th year and all but a scant number of years I still agree with and think that is very nearly correct.

Ezzy

Merry Merry Christmas to all of you. It has been a tough year personally, as I have been suffering the results of bone cancer, and odd as it may seem, it has brought me much closer to family, friends, and God, as he hears my prayers to help me and to keep all of my younger family and friends free fr...

Only supplement I ever used was added fat if needed.

Ezzy

Brad, why do you think a dog needs to get a bird in it's mouth as a reward ? What I took from the video was that the dog knew birds were likely to be found in the magic brushpile from previous experience so the dog went there and "bumped" a bird . I see this fairly often if one of my dogs often fin...

We watch for new names as well as new IP's. Does not mean we are always successful we are always happy for yours.

essy

I just recently purchased a replacement e-collar. It came with vibrate and tone features. I typically train my dogs to recall on voice and on whistle but only use the whistle command VERY sparingly, and enforce it fairly vigorously, because when I do hit the whistle, I want the dog to respond immed...

Jon, what the heck question are you going to come up with next? :roll: Seems we are getting too many of your crazy questions lately. Give it a rest, please. Hahaha I was getting ready to say, this guy might be going crazy stuck in his house all day. Jon, you are pushing the red button when you star...

Well, you still have a few things wrong. I would say that Labs and Golden Retrievers are the most popular pet breeds in America today and they are sometimes used as gun dogs as well (by comparison of numbers). Having two dogs of different sexes and different breeds will invite trouble if they are n...

Criminetly! (Did I spell that right?) I thought ol' Jon was gone. It's a good thing we don't allow political posts here. Goodness knows what he'd come up with. What I am afraid of is that "they" will someday come after your retrievers, spaniels, pointers and setters once they have prohibited all us...

I have no problem with the dog but I would not breed it.

Ezzy

Bill, what a down to earth common sense post . Maybe it is just our age but it seems to me that so many members turn a really enjoyable topic that they are involve with into an arguing match that they lose a large part of what is important in life. Thank you Bill on this thanksgiving day here in the...

I noticed you mentioned food in your original post but it was completely ignored in the responses. Hope you noticed it too because that is one thing you have no need of unless you are talking hypoglycemic or diabetic condition for you or the dog.

Ezzy

Ray G, Nice post. You are a consistently classy guy and I appreciate it. Right on. We can usually find what we look for and it throws me that so many try to find fault instead od a dog and a man in the field doing what they like to do as well as I always thought most of us but I begin to wonder at ...

Average Guy, if you are nearing 70 you are probably a little younger than most of the experienced hunter that post on here. And if those years are how we determine experience then you may be a little less experienced as well. I do not have a clue how you rank quality of experience but much of what y...

Get into the cover with him. He'll follow you. Go slowly. You beat me too it but the pup should not be expected to hunt heavy cover alone but rather hunt it with you. This happens more often with short-coated dogs but will improve as he gets experience so it basically will take time on your part as...

gonehuntin' wrote:Two most important commands are NO and HERE. No negotiation on either one.

This probably is as close as you can come.

In answer to the question, skip the morning feed. In answer to the format of the event it appears to have nothing to do with hunting but another opportunity for people to have an additional day to compete and have fun with your dog.

Ezzy

I would skip the morning meal if you are travelling. Makes no sense to me to have an excited young dog bouncing around in a vehicle with a full stomach. Half digested, puked up kibble is just nasty. Been there. I would let the dog out, let it run and empty out and then load up and go. I would offer...

I would skip the morning feeding. Dogs are not like humans, digestively speaking. Our stomachs empty fast and food goes slowly through our bowels, but dogs' stomachs hold food for a long time, and then food goes quiclky throigh the bowels. A well-nourished, well-conditioned dog won't suffer from mi...

I know the majority of people on this site won't agree with me....but I think this is a terrible initial post. We have WAY too few gun laws in this country. The idea of softening them is ludicrous. We have far more gun crime than all other wealthy industrialized countries because we have more guns ...

My top concern are the members that don't show their location. It sure habdicapps potention buyers as well as sellers when you have no idea where someone is located.

Ezzy

That explains why there are so many unwanted dogs.

Ezzy

Robert. It doesn't make a lot of sense o me either.

This whole discussion about early training has to be based on the meaning of training, such as type and how. Without a concnses on that we re just talking about apples and oranges.

ezzy

Dont know about you guys that side of the pond , but Chicken Coops are Ground base ,and Pigeons are living higher . Separate sexes require a perch or box just big enough for a Pigeon to perch without touching the neighbour with an outstretched neck and beak. Pairs ,require double that space if you ...

My only concern about height in a pigeon loft is keep them low so you can catch the birds easily. 2sq. ft works well.

Ezzy

I doubt if many would argue against more testing for heart disease if it was more common. But out of thousands I have dealt with or that I know about I can recall two individuals that had a problem. Just not sure that qualifies as a breed problem.

Ezzy

Skydance wrote:Dancing Spur can be seen having a fun day at a local preserve, two other dogs in this video also earned championships run on wild birds. I think we all know what a trial dog will do for the gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeHrj_- ... jreload=10

Yep and well stated.

When you feel safe in the field with all the other hunters carrying a loaded gun and being mentally capable of making the right decisions that may well involve your life or death, you probably made the right decision as far as lull fledged hunting. If the just want to walk along that can be much soo...

The idea of a trial dog is not to find all the game. Too much time and energy searching every bush. The dogs learn to identify cover likely to hold birds called objectives and cast out to those objectives. A trial is about driving your Ferrari as fast and hard as it can go for 30, 60, or 90 minutes...

Hello, so i have had my chocolate lab since the beginning of may. He was seven weeks old when i picked him up. Now he is 7 month old weighing at 75 lbs. is that the normal size for a 7 month old lab or is he slightly on the big puppy side? Just wondering because i need to know if im suppose to up h...

Ezzy, I relearned a tough lesson on this trip. Let myself get dehydrated and ended up hopping around the motel room with horrible leg cramps one evening. Spud thought I was nuts. 3 Bananas (morning, noon, afternoon) and 4 flavored waters/Gatorade a day for me after that episode. Yep and some cranbe...

That's what it is all about , isn't it. You know it! I smiled when I read your post saying, " Spud put in an average of 21 miles a day at 10 MPH, hunting on a run, same the 5th day as the first. I gave out before he did." That has always been my thought when we get into one of these stamina discuss...

This all makes for very nice posts, but it is mostly baloney. I admit to having no experience with pointers because they are nearly non existent in the country I live and hunt in. I have seen them in trials so I do know how they run. The few that I have worked with had the same mindset as any other...

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