Gun Dog Forum

Yep pear, You are probably right I just like a 50lb. dog I guess. There is a huge size difference in the GSP breed. I guess when you breed 2 dogs you never know what size the offspring will be. I had a litter this spring and have been training one of the 9 month old pups from this litter. Well he is...

I have a GSP that is going on 1 year this month and she is still small. There is a pic of her under the ""Took my camera training today!!"" post in the training forum. In the second pic she is the one on point. She is also the one in the last pic. She is about 35lbs. and pretty muscular not thin. I ...

Tak, This tool is great if you have a dog that won't stand at whoa. You know how they want to follow you. You can push back at them when walking out to the front. You can stay in front of them and keep putting them at whoa as they are trying to get to you. I think this works because the dog is stopp...

Thanks everyone for the kind words. OhioOnPoint this is at my training ground. It is getting pretty beat down but it's not bad for our area. We will have to get together and train sometime. I'll P.M. you when I get a chance.

I finally got some new pics thought I would share some.

OhioOnPoint, We live about 15 min. apart. I live in wauseon. That is really crazy. Do you train your own dogs? How long have you guys been doing hunts? Do you enter in any events?

Rip Traf v Bess

Dixielands Rusty

These dogs are National Field Champs Right??

Thanks for the compliements. Thanks for the info about that being self fronted Brenda never heard that before.

What is different? The beek is smaller head looks different? Where did you get the pigeon? My guess would be it is probably a roller or tumbler pigeon. These will work but like sandhill said not as good. I have a coop with a lot of good rollers. Then I have one with homers. This year I will probably...

He is liver and white. His belly and legs are white. Thanks for the compliment! Here is anouther pic. You are not alone the dog I ran with was a weim and decided to attack the horse. The judge almost fell off. It was pretty scary.

Tracy was this at the Highland MI course by any chance. If so I think I might have been the bracemate in one of those tests.

Brett your dog will run with a brace mate. Just luck of the draw who it will be. I try to keep my dog away from the brace mates all together. When you come to the starting line most people stand right together. You don't have to do this you can move over to the boundries and start your dog away from...

""OldSchoolSpringer"" the SH hunt test is worthless. Are you kidding me how many do you have. In SH you dog has to hold point on birds, be steady to the shoot at least but most are steady to fall, back the other dog and retrieve to hand. This would not be a worthless dog to me. I hope you are talkin...

One of the problems I ran into with the JH is with tagging, playing, or aggression. Young dogs or ones that have not ran with alot of dogs especially ones of different breeds. I would try to run my dogs with alot of different dogs. I do not know anybody with a gordon then I got to run with one. My d...

Thank you wagonmaster. That means alot coming from someone as knowledgeable as you.

The biggest mistake I make too much pressure way to early. My first dog hunting and shooting pheasants and STW&S at 6 months. The thing about it is at some point with alot of pressure it will all come apart. It is so hard to pick up the pieces.

You will have to teach the dog it can't catch birds. What I do is plant really good flying homers/wild pigeons. Birds that your dog can't catch. Bring my dog in on a checkcord stop it when it gets the scent. Then have an assistant wake that bird up but don't flush. Make sure you are in fairly low g...

Just curious if anyone ever tried this Nitrofurazone stuff on their dogs.

Mine get a really bad chafing and scabs. The dog not me, but I am the one that has to put the vet perscribed cream on them. Yuk!! Maybe there is an ointment that would heal them faster. Around here people swear by this stuff called Nitrofurazone it is a horse ointment. I would check with your vet fi...

You will have to teach the dog it can't catch birds. Casper is on the money with the launchers (if you have them). What I do is plant really good flying homers/wild pigeons. Birds that your dog can't catch. Bring my dog in on a checkcord stop it when it gets the scent. Then have an assistant wake th...

Where you from in ohio? I'm pretty sure there ain't none like you up north here.

Yep, got me one of those too.

You can't plant birds behind the couch. You must live in one of those fancy houses.

My aunt had a dog and was feeding eggs and chicken raw. It died and the vet did an autopsy he said it had salmonella poisoning. Swear to god I did not think this was possible??

Your hip is what we around here like to call a bad deal'e'o. It sure is nice when they start retrieving on there own. This is my first dog I might not have to FF. I think they either have it or they don't. Well good luck.

She is 7 mo. old I have just started working with her. Yesterday was the third time she was on birds. I had a checkcord on her and she was holding point good enough I could flush birds in front of her. She is a retrieving machine also, so I am very excited about this dog. You had hip surgery on you ...

Mine has alot of rusty also but was sired by Ohi shamless so I thought maybe yours had some in there. These dogs look alot alike. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a223/crazyt25/DSCF0767.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a223/crazyt25/DSCF0763.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a223/crazyt25/...

Wagon master I was just lookin at this post and seen the pics of your female. I thought I was lookin at mine. I will have to get a pic and post it here. Does she have any Ohi shamless in her?

I don't know if you are looking at this post anymore but I am really into hunt test. I have 4 GSP dogs and I run at a course in Highland MI all the time. That is very close to you if you have any questions on getting in to this let me know superiorconcrete@earthlink.net

Sorry about that, I have already FF him. I am changing from throwing a dead bird to shooting the bird for him to retrieve.

I have just joined this forum and I think this is a great site. My question is to those who have FF dogs before. I am finishing my male gsp up right now. The last thing we have was FF and he did well I am now shooting birds for him to retrieve, he is starting to retrieve them. My question is when I ...