Gun Dog Forum

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Carry a stick with a pointed end. Not vampire-killing sharp, but pointed enough to hurt a bit when it pokes you. You decide how close the dog is allowed to get and every time he gets closer, give him a casual little jab. A little jab; you aren't trying to break the skin or give him a big bruise Don'...

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What works best is to train them to stay off the counter, starting when they are 6 weeks old. Supervise so they get corrected every time they even think about looking. We adopted a dog who had been carefully trained that he could do whatever he wanted to do as long as no one saw him. One thing that ...

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Save yourself a lot of trouble and get the dog collected and frozen before he leaves your possesion.

Breeding arrangements often fall apart and it is simply not worth going to court in a lawsuit about a dog.

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House dogs. They are fine. About 15 minutes running through the deep snow and they are ready to flop down in front of the wood stove and toast their hides. That running through the deep snow is hard work. Not really running, but bounding in high jumps to get anywhere. The Papillon just jumps from on...

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I do some obedience exercises. Put the dog on a down stay and I go and hide his toy and then tell him to go and get it for me. Of course, in the house he can hear where I've hidden it, but it gets him a short run and he loves the game and he is bringing the toy I asked for to hand and delivering it ...

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Okay, so much for the house breaking issue. Seems it's not really an issue. Has anyone seen any problems in taking a 2-3 year old dog that has been a kennel dog it's entire life and transitioning it to a house dog? I'm assuming that most will make the transition without much problem. Just another a...

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Very nice cup. It looks well done. The pup here loves coffee beans, but she sure doesn't need any caffeine to rev her engine. We keep hoping to calm her down. She really wants beer, but so far we've kept it away from her. She gets right after those empty beer bottles. I'm sure it smells good to her,...

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If you want your dog to work hard for long periods of time, feed a high fat diet. Dogs can digest a lot of fat, but it needs to be introduced gradually. A big load of fat to a dog not accustomed to it can cause pancreatitis. Easiest way to increase fat is to add a couple of tablespoons of vegetable ...

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If your wife likes big dogs, the Bracco is supposed to be able to hunt fur. They can easily be trained to hunt closer and they will blood trail. They make a good house dog, too. In my family, the gun dog is not allowed to notice rabbits. I've got an Australian Shepherd who makes the rabbits' life a ...

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Yes. Very simple. We send ours out to have them tanned. They come back very nicely done.

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You house train an adult the same way you house train a puppy. Take them outside after meals and praise them when they do their thing outside. Inside the house, you watch them so you can interrupt them and get them outside if they indicate they need to relieve themselves. Crate them when you can not...

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The dogs get the giblets. Intestines get tossed out. Gizzard get the grit rinsed out, but I don't strip the lining out if the dogs are getting it.

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Most puppy formulas contain DHA for improved brain development. ........... So does a fish oil capsule. Not that I have any opinion on puppy food since I don't feed kibble. But a person could feed their favorite dog food and drop a fish oil capsule into the supper dish. All of my dogs like the fish...

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If you want it, you buy it all by yourself. Then, if you want, you can invite your friends to use the place as your guest. I suggest a sewer system and an RV. Pull the rv back and forth and then there isn't much there to steal when no one is there. Fence along the road and have good solid gates to d...

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I suggest that in addition to "whoa", you teach her "wait".

That is a command we use at doors for a temporary halt. It's useful; in other situations and as a new command, it should not confuse your "whoa"

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Have some chews that are allowed. Anytime he starts to chew on something you don't want chewed, you say "Not that, chew this" and hand him a legal chew. If you pay attention and trade every time he feels like chewing it is very quick for the pup to learn to find his chew when the mood hits him to ch...

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Two days... give him some time. He's in a strange place and misses his litter mates. I think a covered crate is better, more den-like. I prefer the shipping crates because if you cover the wire crate with a blanket, there is the issue of him pulling it through the bars and eating it. I suspect that ...

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The English Springer that we had would have suited you perfectly. He was a bout 40 pounds (a big Springer), shortish coat, born fully trained, not an aggressive bone in his body, loved everybody including any dog he met, and a well behaved dog in the house. Although a lot of energy, he was never des...

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Adding,, since there are other dogs out there, you are going to have to make them be quiet, also. She's going to bark if they bark.

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If you are going to spray with a hose, you have to do it every time she barks. Otherwise nothing happens most of the time when she barks but sometimes her person goes a little crazy and doses her with water for no reason that she can see. Why would she know that is for barking when you allow her to ...

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That's an adorable pup. At 7 weeks, I am teaching a pup how to be a good house dog and companion. That's plenty enough to learn at that baby age. House training, what you can chew and what you can't, stay off the furniture (or not, owner's choice), not to jump on people, bite inhibition, come when c...

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If you really are interested in the technical stuff, you'll get a longer, more elastic stride if the hocks are well let down and the dog is long through the stifle. If the dog has a shoulder blade that lays back well and the upper arm is the same length and a mirror image of the shoulder blade in an...

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Stand behind the dog and watch him move away. The hock joint should not bend to the outside or the inside. The feet should point straight ahead. The back leg should make a straight line. The feet will most likely land slightly closer together that the width of the pelvis, although it is perfectly OK...

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I have no idea how you are training, but I teach "controlled walking" before the heel. It's a game. I laugh and the pup grins. I try to make a turn and get away from the pup while they are on the leash. They get really focused on following me and not letting me get away, (because they give themselve...

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18 minutes is far too long to work the heel exercise with any dog, except maybe a battle hardened mature 5 year old police dog who is working the job at the time. Heel takes a lot of mental concentration from a dog and it is tiring. With a pup that age, we heel for no more than a few seconds. We wal...

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Our Welsh Springer hunted just fine after her spay. There wasn't any difference. She was fed to keep her weight at an acceptable level. Occasionally you see a spayed bitch that gets fat, but dogs don't have their own credit cards, email accounts, and cars, so the only way a dog can get too much food...

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Well, ahem... you could use them frozen with a launcher. In my area pheasant chicks are cheap. There is some money involved in raising them because game bird feed is quite spendy. I think you just have to buy more chicks and regard it as a lot cheaper than paying to hunt someone else's planted field...

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.......But the dual champion criteria cannot apply to springers. The split is too vast. The standard has moved too far away from function. So conformation in a FBESS must be assessed in other ways, rather than a by a judge who has never stepped into a pheasant field. Field Springers and show Spring...

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Timewise65 wrote:....if you can stand the laughing, consider a field bred poodle....

Poodles can be good gun dogs, and if you are too sensitive about ridicule, clip the coat short and insist that your dog is a Curly Coated Retriever.

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I do think at 7-8 weeks you an see the more independent, curious pup as opposed to the shy, hanging back pup. That influences my choice. To me, temperament is the most important. However, conformation is important and bad conformation will make me pass on a pup. Conformation affects how they go and...

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Let them play. They will be better dogs if they have good canine social skills. Additional benefit is that it is good hard exercise and will help to tire them out so they will settle down for a nap. The only thing about tug games is that I won't allow a pup to play tug with a human. Or rather the re...

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In the case of someone who only wanted particular markings and asked no questions about athletic ability, I would have given them the names of a couple of different show breeders, where the markings are most likely to be uniform and the heads all look a lot alike. My opinion is that pet dog families...

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I've had frozen semen shipped, but I wasn't the one paying for it. One shipment resulted in two puppies and one shipment went to England and they haven't used it yet. You can call the place that stores it and they will give you a rundown on costs. I think I paid about $300 for the collection and sto...

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......... That definitely is a set of feet to grow into. She is certainly doing her best to grow into those feet. The amount she eats is scary and I can't keep her ribs covered. Every ounce of food goes straight into growth. And she is strong. She is a couple of inches shorter than the Australian S...

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I think if you got a wire haired breed that had a soft or wooly coat, you'd be in trouble, cleaning wise. But a hard shortish wire coat is easy care. My only wirehair experience is with Deerhounds, but water, dirt, mud, burrs simply fell right out of their coat with no effort on my part. I think the...

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I tried clicker training and it works extremely well. However, it is a new system to learn and I am set in my ways and what I have been doing all along works well, too. Clicker is an excellent way to train a good fetch if you don't want to force break or don't have good enough timing to force break....

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pensive 8 weeks behind.jpg This is my new family member. I know, she looks like a hound, but there is nothing hound-like in her behavior. She is calm and people oriented, eager to please. I was thinking that she didn't use her nose very well, but finally figured out I just wasn't reading her correc...

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Several different options. The very best is to bite the bullet and pay for coyote rollers on the top of the fence. Cost will bring tears to your eyes, although I think that someone clever could figure out how to make them at home. Less expensive is an invisible fence, place the radio wire on the top...

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I don't know anything about that cross, but with lurchers, if a wire hair is breed to a straight hair, the pups will be either wire haired or ( more likely) a broken coat. Only not necessarily a wirehair like a GWP, it might be the type of rough coat that a Deerhound has. The Deerhound coat is excep...

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. My pup is 10 weeks old today at what point do you start working on simple recall for his name? What do you do to teach him his name?..............l I start teaching a pup to come when called when they are about 3 weeks old-- or as soon as they can toddle towards me. If I am buying the pup, traini...

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Rubber stall mats. Easy to clean, keeps the dog clean, prevents digging. I would, however, have the run at least partially shaded. Stall mats are black and might get hot in the sun. I haven't had any issues, but my stall mats are in the shade (on the heavily used path approaching eh back door, not i...

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(shrug) I home cook and my dogs get grain without any problem. Brown rice, mostly, but noodles (wheat), barley, quinoa, bread (wheat), tortillas (corn). But they are also getting a lot of high quality meat. The quality of the meat makes a huge difference in how a dog does on it's food. I don't do gr...

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For "heel" on the left side, dogs side by side. I've done it with 4 dogs, all in perfect formation. I don't want dogs on my gun side. For working, I prefer a looser "follow" (or command of your choice), sort of on my left or slightly behind me, within maybe 3-5 feet. Too sloppy for a heel but a lot ...

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only problem with low blood sugar is that most of the time the dog is fine when the vet pulls the blood sample, ........... If it is low blood sugar, you can feed a little carbohydrate or sugar and the dog will snap right out of it. Feed a small amount of carbohydrate or sugar right before exercise...

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I'd have the dog tested for adrenal gland failure.

It might be some sort of small seizure, but they are coming awfully close together for epilepsy and your dog seems to still be aware of what's going on around him.

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There is nothing wrong with having a dog that likes to stay close to your company. The pup will start to range out further after he learns you won't disappear. It's more fun to have a gundog who checks to see where you are than to try to hunt with a dog who takes off and could care less about your l...

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Is there any Lepto in your area? If so, dog should be fully vaccinated before going into water.

I won't set my pups onto ground where other dogs or wild canines have been until after the third shot in the series.

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If you, as the handler, are having difficulty with doing a forced fetch, you might try switching to clicker training and see if that works better for you. You can get an awfully good fetch with clicker training. It's a whole different training system and you'll have to learn the system, but it does ...

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OP, you say your dog is a great dog, so that breeding has worked. Close breeding like that is done to fix traits and if the animals that are being doubled up on in the pedigree are great dogs, the pups have a much better chance of being great dogs. Careful breeders take the time to study pedigrees a...

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Quail are really tasty. Have yourself a nice dinner and buy something that works better for training your dog. Those birds are not working out for you.

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