Gun Dog Forum

Benny

In addition to all the good stuff above, please call your County Animal Services (the pound), and double check with them on their recommendations. Actually you can get it done their usually at very good price. ***The county will be the one that picks your dog up off the street...not any of these com...

Benny

I know exactly what you are looking for . I was looking for the same thing when i started - a book that says "step one, step two........." Because dogs are all different , ( I guess that's the reason) there is no such book. :) I would very much like that book too! :lol: +1 on the "come" command. Yo...

Benny

To each their own. If it's a dog, it's a welcome hunting buddy to me. Weeeell, unless it's that mini-pincher across the culdesac from me that barks and acts like a pitbull when it's on grandma's leash. That is not a dog, that is a walking breathing chew toy.

Benny

Sounds like you know exactly what Im saying. Oh I feel your pain...my dog gave me heck all day today just trying to lay on the couch and take a sick day...she won. I do like the "lay down" command when they're restless but unreasonable. Other times you just have to know it's unfair having a GSP box...

Benny

Could barely get out of bed with the pounding headache and sore throat...the crud is moving in and making a home in my sinuses! It's so unfair that we baby our dogs when they sneeze too much, or have low energy, or upset stomach...and when we're sick on the couch they just bulldog you all "bleep" da...

Benny

I was thinking the same when I read this post earlier last week. Must have mistyped???

90 lbs is a GOLIATH of a GWP.

Benny

Oooooh Bacon Nyla-Bones? That sounds like a winner for my dog! I brush my dogs teethabout every other week or so... now the real question is... "Who all loves their dog enough to use their own toothbrush to do it with??? :mrgreen: No dude...I'm not letting my sonicare toothbrush into that rancid sal...

Benny

Puppy should play and socialize with every dog you can imagine. Vaccines should be in place of course

This socializing is optimum for later, you'll see why when you run into a grumpy GSP that tries to bite the head off your dog.

Benny

+1 for getting the dog to lay down. That being said, I remember when I was going to college with my shorthair at her age of 2...$%*#@ that!!! It was awful :D You are doing the best you can between classes and study to get the dog out, you consider yourself an outdoorsy person so it's no problem righ...

Benny

Interesting...although I probably won't get two more GSP's just to keep one's teeth healthy

I will try the nylabones again though. I wish they were more luring for Emma but in the past she seems to snub them. I don't blame her, who would want to eat that thing?

Benny

I like my Dogtra 1700 NCP, it's got good range and it hasn't failed yet. I really like the size of the remote too, not at all like the ones where you're carring a relay baton through the woods

Benny

Well there's some good points made. I'd be interested to know what folks are using for toothpaste? I'm thinking even though I've had my teeth for quite some time, I know folks that are my age that don't have that great of teeth. I think Emma might fall in the category of dogs that don't have the gre...

Benny

How many folks brush their dogs teeth?
I've never done it, but I'm starting to see the results of never doing it and I'm concerned about paying the price down the road. Turns out all those well advertised denta-bones and other chewies are bologna.

Any tips or techniques would be very helpful

Benny

I would be concerned if my dog continued to vomit in the back of the pickup and I was unaware of it on a 6 hour road trip to Huntington. *Luckily my dog doesn't have that issue, just becomes antsy and a raging turd. I might also be concerned that the dog might not hunt even close to maximum potentia...

Benny

My dog is my child...of course she gets presents.

Good poll! I secretly wondered how many upland dogs get spoiled like mine. You can count me as a "YEA" vote in the birthday present poll as well.

Benny

ultracarry wrote:
bigsugar wrote:Get a crate.
+1
And make it ride in the back.

Does this help the dog? Or is it so you don't have to worry about it?

Benny

Those are some great pictures! That adventure reads like a bedtime story to birdhunters :D That's awesome you had a bobcat encounter. I work in the woods year round (literally forget where my cubicle in the office is sometimes) and I never get to see bobcat :x Anyway lessons learned about cacti, but...

Benny

You want the dog to understand the task isn't complete until the bird is in hand. You may have already developed what they call "sloppy mouth" just in play or in past bird hunting experiences where it was okay to have dropped it at your feet. This trait will get developed with every dog in every hou...

Benny

As long as you get to hunt with your dog I would say it's always a pleasure. Half the days I forget to even take my shotgun with me :D No not really...I always have my shotgun. But once she's done her job (whether it be pointing or locating the scent) let her off the hook with a treat and let her kn...

Benny

http://tn.gov/twra/feralhog.html That's very interesting. So management is on your side but enforcement is weak in catching illegally released feral pigs on public lands? This is a new topic, I think Oregon is still in the fun stages of feral pigs, although many are aware of the dangers of establis...

Benny

I mean illegal. They are legal now, so every redneck in the state goes out there and brings/releases hogs so they can charge for "guided hunts." If they were illegal to hunt, there would be no "market" for releasing and hunting them. I think states that have made them illegal to hunt have had more ...

Benny

Sounds like it could be conditional too. Try just getting him/her to hold point over that wing. Exercise over. Treat, pat on the head. Training the dog to go into the bushes and fetch a wing will get you nothing in the field. Once the dog is holding poing over the wing, time to move to launchers or ...

Benny

I would move the recall training from the yard to the field; sounds like the dog understand's I have to recall in yard but do I have to do it in the field too? To much work in one spot and dogs can become place oreinated. :) +1 on that, reinforced by AZ's quote as well. The yard is like college, it...

Benny

That's interesting that Quail can contract Tularemia. In Central Oregon we have Jacks all over and I've always been told the winter months are the safest time if you ultimately had to eat one (yuck). I wonder what the odds are of a Quail actually contracting Tularemia? RoostersMom, did you mean "LEG...

Benny

Toss their poop in the hole.

Benny

First of all...wow that's a big GWP!!!

No you're not in any trouble. I wouldn't want a dog eating a whole jar or anything, but a tiny handful won't kill them, and really I doubt you'll even notice a symptom in terms of digestion. Perhaps a fart late in the evening that clears the room

Benny

Super dry scaley skin? Sores?
Do you have another dog that is experiencing same conditions?
If not, you should be able to rule out mange.

Benny

+1 for bringing out the birds.

I've heard .22 is hard on a dog's ears. You might stick with the 410. Is it too late to get a new uncle?

Benny

+1 for anxiety or pissed off, assuming the dog does this 80-100% of the time. Could need to do some dusting off on the crate training, perhaps it was used for punishment one too many times?

Benny

In Oregon I hunt ridges with alder thickets and snowbrush along the old BLM roads. The grouse prefer the rock source for their gullets nearby and just love those thickets of snowbrush along the roads. It's the only bird (other than turkey) I don't often take my dog with me. Speaking for my local are...

Benny

Oh she's got no real rhyme or rhythm. It's actually kind of nice, she flushes in the creek side where it's 20-30 ft wide swaths of alder, and when she's in the tall grass around some of the barn houses she'll hold pretty nicely on point. I think we've hunted together enough that believe it or not, s...

Benny

Took the dog out on a fair weather day.
Worked several coveys, and was very impressed with Emma holding tight over a single until I booted it out of the grass.

No complaints.

Benny

It's very important to consider your climate. I live in Oregon, and in the VERY early season I'll send my shorthair after ducks, but right now its 14 degrees back home and I'm sure the water isn't much warmer. I wouldn't send a GSP out in cold water-cold weather situations. +2 on the lab. also some ...

Benny

Your good to go! Last year when I moved to town I met a friend and got him interested in duck hunting. He had a yellow lab for 7 years that he'd never really even played fetch in water before with. Took about one day to have the duck thing figured out, now they're both hooked for life. If the preter...

Benny

No, no discharge. She had this sneezing problem about a month ago when I let her in a buddies backyard for Sunday football. Seemed like she sneezed it out after a few hours and the fits never happened again till after the quail hunt, where she probably sniffed something up.

Benny

I will definitely try that, although you don't think licking neosporin all day will make her sick? Anyway, I had a follow up question about her sniffer possibly getting cheat grass in it. Since the quail hunt she's had occasional sneezing fits that only last for three or four sneezes, but I'm sure s...

Benny

Buddy pole probably needed. Hand signals should be integrated with the whistle, it will make it easier for your dog. Repetition and repetition. Tips: like always, training sessions short and small gains...like lifting weights, you won't bench 280 your first day will you? I found that the whistle wor...

Benny

Yeah I stopped the peroxide, and the last day and a half I've actually been letting it breath since she's going to take the "bleep" bandages off anyways.
It doesn't look like its getting infected, it doesn't look like its healing quickly, and she's not acting like its even there. its a conundrum.

Benny

Dog got rung up in some stray barbed wire right where her elbow is on the front (picture your elbow...but backwards). First two days got peroxide, EMT gel, non stick pad, and vet wrap. She has continued to slip out of it and the wound is about the size of a dime (circular) and open...not looking lik...

Benny

Today i took my dog to the field and they released for him 10wild birds, he was on a CC and he he pointed 6 of these 10 birds. i think am geting there slowly. That's excellent in my book. there are so many variables that can cause a dog to bust a bird or just pass it completely. wind direction, or ...

Benny

I agree, and at this point hopefully you'll only be checking back to update on progress, because you've really been given the top of the line info from Don, Yme, and Ray. I'd honestly like to see some pictures of the dog working that country as well...what are the upland species you're hoping to wor...

Benny

Pigeon trap, they sell 'em on this website too I believe. They work great, you leave the bobbin door open for a week and feed cracked corn then drop the door and they'll walk right in. Check to make sure it's legal, I've never heard of anywhere it is not since they're not native, but ya never know w...

Benny

Elias wrote:I live in Lebanon in the middle east....i dont have anyone to help me....
oke i will keep it short then...

Serious? How's the pheasant hunting over there?

Benny

I don't know how grouse compare where you are to the ones I'm used to hunting...but beware. Tough birds for a beginner upland dog...tough tough birds. If you were talking Oregon ruffed grouse/blue's, I'd say suggest some barn birds or canned style hunt for a hunting introduction, or a juicy quail sp...

Benny

Cheers Don, yeah I landed a good permanent gig with USFS just south of you. Nah there's no birds around here to speak of though

Benny

Well, yeah in theory. She definitely is a good dog, and she gets the job done. Like I said, if we weren't shooting so terrible our pictures would have looked like they were out of a guided hunt...she located quite a few birds for us.

Benny

Haven't been on here for a while but I thought it was time to check in and see what the dogs were up to. Found a nice spot of public land not far from home that hosted a TON of valley quail. Been pretty busy with wildland fires and prescribed burns into the fall, so poor Emma hasn't had as many good...

Benny

Don's advice is solid foundational upland bird training. It's the basics.

You need birds for practice and repetition on the check cord hones those skills.

Unless you want a flushing dog, which isn't a bad thing, but by the sound of it that's not what you're going for.

Benny

Yes your dog is ruined. You'll never limit out on bumpers with wings attached again. By the sound of it, you're stuck hunting real birds, which is an unfortunate turn of events. Trade him in for a Miniature Poodle, I think they are natural bumper hunters with incredible drive.

Benny

It just had to be an Oregonian...

What a terrible thing to do, and judging by his statements to the police it sounds like there was ZERO remorse. That's sickening and I'm not-so-secretly hoping he gets a mild dose of his own medicine.

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