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DonF

Can't remember the dogs name, extremely famous EP. Early part of 20th century the tabasco sauce family bough it for something like $90k. He was 11 yrs old at the time.

DonF

I have a 3 month old GSP. I have been told to feed him high protein puppy food. I train him 45 minutes twice a day. The question I have; I bought some high protein puppy food 22% protein and 12% fat. Over the weekend he has had diarrhea. I stopped feeding him today and he seams to be a little bette...

DonF

Maybe his denture' are loose!

DonF

That looks like something a young setter of mine had - a histiocytoma. It looks and sounds nastier than it is. My vet whacked it off and that was the end of it. Thanks shags, I posted a pic on a FB group and someone said the same thing. Someone also said that it looks like ring worm that has been l...

DonF

birds wrote: ↑
Sat May 02, 2020 8:28 am
Good lord. Oldbeek if I am still hunting chukars at 78 I would likely be happy to have a dog that stuck close to me. After all, somebody would need to lead the authorities back to my carcass.
My hat is off to you!

Same here!

DonF

I plant the traps in order, have a number on each trap. Closest to me get @1, next #2 and last one is #3. I do that because like yourself I've popped the wrong bird! At each trap on the brush up high as I can, I leave a close pin I've painted florescent orange.

DonF

I deal with bulk feed ingredients for all kinds of animals and pets. I would strongly advise choosing a high quality food from a specialty dog food company. I would avoid the generic and major brands like the plague. There really is significant differences in what goes into different feeds. However...

DonF

Sharon wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:15 pm
What are you doing to me? No.No.No..... I don't want another pup, but.................

DonF

I have an idea most hard mouth is man made. When we teach retrieving we throw a soft object and to often people pry to pull it out of the dog's mouth. Take a lesson from force training. Don't start with a soft object Delmar Smith suggest's starting with a hard wood dowel! As I recall he moves to a f...

DonF

A little background first. I owned a wonderful Pudelpointer for the past 13 years, we unfortunately had to put him down this past fall. He was an excellent dog in the field and the house, but one area I felt could have been better was his stamina. I am a foot hunter and a one dog guy. I run and mou...

DonF

I've used homer's and ferals both for a lot of years. Homer's can really get expensive to buy, ferals you can usually find a plce to catch your own.I prefer ferals to homer's. They are a lot smaller than homer's and not such a handfull when working with them. The are not a social as homer's either, ...

DonF

Something I found hunting grouse is it's hard to keep track of your dog. I run mine with a Garmin 320 tracking collar. With it on it also shows the route I took and it's easy to get back out! Your track on it is a different color than the dog's! I don't know what they run now but mine was $550 about...

DonF

So, here's the deal with leaving a pup with a trainer. They don't get much work and social interaction. A trainer may carry 20 dog's. Those dog's are trained daily but not given a lot of time. A pro is very efficient, makes no or few mistakes and doesn't need a lot of time with the dog's. In my opi...

DonF

Sold another up last night. That makes seven out of eight gone. They were 6 wks last Saturday, got their first shot's and finally getting outside. Was outside with them and my son's girl friend came by and wanted to take his over to their place for the night. Not long after that got a call for pup n...

DonF

Something was said about sitting on point. I've always felt that sitting in a situation like that indicate's confusion in the dog. If your using the trap properly, sitting can be over come. You keep your eye's on the dog at all times. You know exactly where the bird is and what the wind is doing. Yo...

DonF

Reading your post and hearing you have watched the Perfect Start DVD, I kinda think you know what the problem is here. You have been letting the pup road in on the scent cone towards the launcher until it pointed vs launching the bird the moment the pup indicates it smells the bird. The value of la...

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Average guy That is just simply not the case. While your dog may very well be a very nice talented dog with wonderful ancestors, the fact of the matter is that he is very likely carrying Genetic issues that will eventually show up if he or his blood lines are continued to be line bred without some ...

DonF

I currently have a 5 month old boston in the clinic that was vaccinated 4 times, by me, at appropriate intervals... Parvo positive. You just never know how well they're gonna respond to the vaccine. I had a friend's shorthair in for several month's and it came down with parvo. About 10 mos when he ...

DonF

Probably the best way to start a pup retrieving in play retrieving in a hallway, no where for the pup to go but back to you. Next best I've found is using a check cord. Start close and work out to the end of the CC. Toss a object maybe 6' and say your command at the same time. Command normally not n...

DonF

I don't think he started the pup to late. I like to let the pup tell me when its ready. Wish I had lot's of wild birds here but I don't. So I let them run and chase "bleep" birds, I don't discourage that. A bird is a bird is a bird! Now and then set out a few remote traps with pigeons in them and wh...

DonF

Actually it' two left now One male and one female Red Setter pup's.

DonF

Great reply Shags! Right on the money!

DonF

Funny thing.got a bell years ago to put on Stormy and Bodie. I couldn't hear the smaller bells so got a larger one. Decided to try it on the boy's and with the bell on they wouldn't even walk! Still have that bell but have never tried it on a dog again. Hangs on the gate going out through the back r...

DonF

All I have ever used on a horse is either a hackamore or a twisted snaffle. I think the problem with most trial horse's is they don't get trained well enough. They seem to be for a lot of people a necessary evil! The more you ride the horse for the sake of the horse's training the better the horse. ...

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One going to Bend, Or, one to Woodinville, Wash, one to Spokane, Wash, one to Idaho Falls, Ida and one to Colorado Spring's, Colo. one female and two males left and eye's are just opening today!

DonF

Thanks for sharing awesome photo's Averageguy , DonF and Irishwhistler! My cellphone camera about the only camera I can manage. Boy some of those cell phone's really take good photo's. Only draw back seem's to be they don't blow up well. I don't understand that as some f them have more than enough ...

DonF

I think I first heard this from K9. "What you allow, you teach"! Think about it!

DonF

Thanks for Looking Folks. DonF, What model Canon are you using? I have a Nikon A900 I carry while hunting and it is a pretty decent camera. These photos were from a new Nikon D3500 with a 70-300mm lens I bought half price over Christmas. Too big to carry while also carrying a gun but greater capabi...

DonF

I've had my place over 30 yrs now and had never had parvo on it till I kept a young dog for a friend. It had come out of a kennel in LaGrande, Ore at 10 mos and I guess the kennel owner told some guy's if he couldn't find a home for two of them he was putting them down. Long story short, a friend of...

DonF

I used to road some, no idea why any more. Trials I did were only 1/2hr braces and a dog training a few time's a week a half hour or so at a time should be good to go. Horseback dog's were trained horseback, 1/2hr was nothing to them! For the hunter, I don't know any hunter's in good enough shape to...

DonF

The problem with pointing dog photos is that we never capture what it is that makes every point special and exciting to see. The photos always lose something and turn out to be another photo of a dog standing on three legs looking off into space. Kind of the when you seen one you've seen them all t...

DonF

Nice intensity! I tried for a long time to find a camera to carry hunting and think I finally found it. It's a Canon point and shoot that take's nice photo's and carry's in a pouch on my belt.

DonF

Not sure about her but it did on me! The second pup she was on my bed with me with her head and shoulder's on my stomach and had the pup there! After 4 hrs I called my vet and he said to give it a few more hours so I did. I worried about a problem but there was none. No runt in the litter and mom an...

DonF

With litter's I had in the past I give a puppy shot at 6 weeks then 8 weeks and tell the owner's to get another at 12 weeks and 16 weeks. The shot at 6 weeks was started as I'd read that's when the mother's natural immunity starts wearing off. Generally what is done is a shot at 8weeks, 12 weeks and...

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I apologize for not being clear Averageguy. I do that a lot trying to put racing thoughts into words for this medium. (Came with the gray hair, I think.) I'm with you. Obedience commands - all of them - SHOULD have little to do with how a dog applies itself in the field. In fact, my dogs admittedly...

DonF

Try stopping a dog that chase's on the flush or shot with the whoa command. A command you can't enforce when needed is un-teaching the command. ..Maybe ' whoa or Bananas , word command is interpreted as slow up there , as in a wagon with a horse , rather than Stop ? , then again, maybe some see it ...

DonF

I have never understood the need for the hold command. What does fetch mean? I take that to mean go get it pick it up and bring it here! Now will hold send the dog? I don't think so unless the trainer interput's it different than I would. When taking the dog down to the table to retrieve, what comma...

DonF

Now it'a four girls and two boy's. My son got this photo with his phone. Love it!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 3Qb6vGOomo

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The first pup

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Second girl just hit the floor running. Born with a quail in her mouth!

Two boy's and two girls now!

Update. Three girls and two boys!

DonF

As of 5:25pm it's one boy and one girl! She was laying across my stomach on the bed when he had it!

DonF

First puppy dropped at 11:05 this morning, little male. Waiting impatiently for the rest!

DonF

I think I get what your saying featherfinder and if I do, I agree. But I've been thinking steady after the flush. Up to there it's hands off and mouth shut for me. I use the remote trap's, think you do to. To start out I don't give the dog much chance to point the bird. The dog come's into scent or ...

DonF

Over the years I have fed a number of different foods, mostly out of the grocery store. Fed Nutro when it first came out and I think it's good stuff, my dog's seemed to do well on it. There was one food I fed that was obviously trash. Came from American Nutrition in Utah! Now I've been criticized fo...

DonF

I like feather finder's stuff but one flaw here for me. Whoa is an obedience command but without it you simply substitute another command. We know what whoa means, we teach the dog what to do when it hears the command. In order to attain steady to wing and shot and especially kill, we have to have s...

DonF

When I tarted Stormy retrieving I just used a training buck with scent on it. Down the road I decided to turn him over to frozen birds and it didn't go bad but, when I tried a fresh killed bird, he wouldn't pick them up and bring them back. He liked pulling feather's but didn't care for holding them...

DonF

The subject of ugly dog's! Oh boy! I've seldom been attracted to ugly dog's but, one huge exception. I know GWP's make good dogs but seem's to me they are just ugly enough not to be cute at the same time. That's my own worthless though! But I've seem a couple WPG, Wirehair Pointing Griffons, they we...

DonF

12 O'Clock tail is extremely important if you're running FT Pointers or Setters. If you're not looking to compete in Field Trials, people that DO field trial will argue that it helps you find the dog in deep cover. But you have a Brittany so the tail is a moot point. CJHills is correct about a the ...

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