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aulrich

In essence I do have a problem, but that is the point of testing, to see the holes when your dog is set to a standard, and I paid for my test at the beginning of summer so it's not like I will chicken out, just because I did not get the level of polish I wanted. Do I wish I had 30-40 more bird shot ...

aulrich

Non verbal whoa would be useful to me in this weekend's UT test. I have not done enough repetitions with my dog to be able to walk past him and flush a bird without a whoa, if I whoa him he stands his birds without he is iify. So on the first bird I will eat the deduction and whoa him (I have been w...

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Actually I have Mo's book at my desk Page 20 covers where you are at, if I understand correctly. As said in a previous post get the dog collar conditioned to here, I didn't that first season, and I paid in stress over a couple of nightmare dog out of control situations and in delay of other steps, w...

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While there is no whoa in mo’s method, the difference between Mo’s Stand and whoa is like the difference between a black duck hen and a mallard duck hen, it take someone with knowledge of both to really explain the differences. In the end they are both methods of getting your dog to stand still.

aulrich

How committed are you to keeping the walkie talkie arrangement, there are remote sender receiver sets that are dirt cheap, mine is power by a 1.2amp/hr sealed lead acid. These electronics make it much easier http://www.dinodirect.com/wireless-4channels-module-multifunctional-relay-4button-car-securi...

aulrich

One thing I had to learn is that pet dog obedience, and working dog obedience are two different things with mine the tighter here, heel and sit got the better his retrieves got. Water adds a layer of complexity, with the tendency to drop and shake among others. I did run mine through a force fetch p...

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All I know about them is there is one that uses the same off leash as I do, My son has met him but I only ever seen him from a distance once. I got the impression from my son that the dog was a euro import, but that is from a teenager so suspect.

aulrich

With mine it was keep away, and if I had him on a cc he would not go out and pick it up. But at that point his OB was not good, I ran him through the hickox e-collar program once here was approaching solid the retrieve got better. FF without formal OB is a real pain. Here, Heel and Sit/whoa have tho...

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Yea I can’t say I have been too happy with the door actuators, but I had seen a pic posted of an alternate configuration. My first kick I had all the electronics in a box on one end f the trap. The down side I had to turn the corner with the motion, and that was not as reliable as I wanted. Last nig...

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Are you fixing one or doing a DIY remote?

aulrich

There a good source of shooters, they breed more than ferals. The ones I had were dumb as a post, I had a hard time getting them to trap.

They would be a good source of shooters with the breeding rate and the need to be, pretty ruthless culling them since even with good blood lots don't roll.

aulrich

I am not sure about that completely, looks like there is a bit of blue tooth or low power wifi, but I am not sure, I have seen other locators that do use cell service and yes most places I hunt it would be useless.

aulrich

http://www.thetileapp.com/?utm_source=F ... medium=CPC

A couple of uses I can see is to attach it to a bird launcher. Maybe even a poor mans short range astro.

aulrich

There was a company response to this, it's basically a mountain out of a mole hill.

aulrich

The only time better than now to start a koop is 6 months ago and that is true any time of year , though fall time is a good time to buy young racing birds since lots of racing clubs will run fall young bird auctions, typically October. Power will be a bit of an issue, on two counts, keeping the wa...

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It's like the dogs , give the the opportunity and the genetics take over, once I got over the nerves to actually distance train the birds took to it easy. 8 miles in a week sounds about right with routing birds.

aulrich

You can also put the half hitch over their nose, the advantage is you pattern them to walk a little further back than the belly half hitch.

aulrich

Heel drills in high excitement environments, my LM is like that around ponds so before he gets to go in we do some heel right by the pond, he is getting better slowly. What was that rule of thumb, do OB drills in 3-7 places with escalating levels of distraction and excitement.

aulrich

If that is chukar country then there must be truth to the saying "You hunt chukar once for fun and anytime after that for revenge".

aulrich

Things looked to have settle down, no more up til now and the boy has pooped (normal firmness) and has eaten, another thing I was told to watch was the firmness of his belly if it goes hard there could be an issue.

aulrich

That makes sense , as long as he can keep some water down. I do need to get him to the vet anyways since he need shots updated and a round of de-worming, but this tells me I can book for later this week and not incur an emergency visit unless something drastic shows up. We were training in pond wate...

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So my dog has puked twice today (so far) 1 kibble and clear slimy water, the second according to the wife, slime and grass , the last he pooped was yesterday and it looked normal , going three times on the walk first one firm and ending slimy. again that is normal for him. What should my call the ve...

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Has not ruined my dog yet(and don’t think it ever will, but I did make set up errors that I have to account for. The biggest is that my dog can bug them as they try to trap if he was really lucky he might catch one off the landing board. And if I am loft flying young birds I have to kennel him since...

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One thing I am curious about is when you see the phrase “dog park” or “off-leash” what does that mean to you. Around here it has a couple of meanings. I live by one of our city’s biggest dog parks, My normal loop through it is a bit over 4 km and that is not covering the same ground twice. The next ...

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Intact mature males get lots of attention from other dogs, some of it just annoying ball sniffing with any number of dogs at a time to mounting and escalating levels of dominance. Worst case being another dog trotting in and just starting a fight because he is there and the scent of testosterone mea...

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My wife is like that too but has seen the light for the most part at least for behavior issues. I am still considering it for the previously mentioned safety issue but not till after hunting season.

aulrich

Yes I had the collar on mine for a couple of weeks. Fit is huge, high up the neck and a snug 2 fingers under the collar it's hard to get it too tight, loose is bad. less is more, it's can be hard (it was for me) for a rookie to read the tells that your dog feels it. I would also take the time and wi...

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I am in a very similar spot, though mine does not mark in my house, though I am not sure how trust worthy he would be as a visitor. But for the most part I have dodged most of the troublesome male dog issues, one issue I have is I may neuter him for safety issues. By necessity I spend lots of time o...

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Pointing an ant and pointing a cloud that looks like a quail. so totally yes those are points.

aulrich

Ah, it was a bad joke(seems to happen regularly for me), leveraging, the way some Canadians call things bad, by adding American to it. EG American health care, American Beer, American cheese stuff like that.

aulrich

Just like many building do not have a 13th floor, lots of Canadians do not have a 4th of July since it's too American.

Irrational fear is a powerful thing

aulrich

i Added a Yildiz OU to the mix should have got a 20 instead of a 12, lighter, faster to handle and two chokes for upland what is not to love. and besides it's illegal to shoot over a pointing dog without one (at least that is what I told SWMBO

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aulrich

15$ is the going rate for a chuckar around here, 5$ for a pigeon if you can find them, I am not down to shooting my own birds yet still need homers, but the koop is getting full.

aulrich

I have noticed the same thing the pup at times picks the ducks up on a run, but the goose he is always fighting.

aulrich

That would be a step up, but pretty much a budget blower IIRC the price for a winger. But you take your DT add the electronics from the afore mentioned manual pigeon launcher conversion + someone's old archery release and you end up with a reasonable single shot copy of a winger. Making the right pu...

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One thing I have done in the past, let them all fly and near the end bring the dog out and stand him on the whoa board till they all have trapped. I think the DU youtube channel has a drill where they sit a dog down in a fairly large flight pen and chase the birds from one side to the other.

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I met some folks with labradooles that were happy as a clam with their hunting dog. I agree if you want to get a hunting dog get a hunting dog breeding counts huge, but if you have a house dog that you want to hunt with by all means give it a try. Because with an honest effort there is zero downside...

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Like a mad man I did not save one of last year's geese to use as a training dummy, though as we cleaned the few we got last year we let him do a couple of marks. And when the birds came back north this spring geese were on the todo list on the river, indicating to me he was not intimidated by the bi...

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I keep mine in while I fly the birds, or use them in a drill and they are usually trapped once they fly back. Mine seem to trap faster if I make them fly at least a few miles to get home. I designed my trap wrong so with a good jump he could get them off the board.

aulrich

With a launcher you have a blank gun(don't put a bumper on) and a launcher, with a blank gun you just have a blank gun. The launcher is usable for the dog's entire life where the blank gun is used a few months of a puppies life. As a training tool you don't think the dog will run into a long glider ...

aulrich

I have been doing some steady to shot work with the dt launcher as a blank gun, the yellows are loud. Its a bit awkward to set it off and have the collar controller handy, but it's doable and it gives a bit of multi task to the launcher unit. I do want to transition to a shotgun and blanks since the...

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OK that sounds like the German System, your breeder really should give you one of these but http://altmoor.com/catalog/BookVideo.html would be in order. I would still recommend joining NAVHDA http://www.navhda.us/chapterinfo.aspx The test are not as extensive as the German system but totally compati...

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I sort of mostly buy the find a system and stick to it but there is not really a system that will do a versatile front to back. And also as a rule try to get a look at every system possible, you never know when you can pull a drill from one to get over a hump(they all skin the same cat after all). P...

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I have had some get beat up when they can't quite make it up to the nest box they were born in. it seems the first couple of weeks they like to go back home and visit the folks.

I think too having a few more perches than birds, is never a bad thing and will help when the koop gets a bit crowded.

aulrich

I am not sure there is a video that does all three. The "orange book"/DD puppy manual should be a decent start point, since that covers the prep for the German hunt test system which test includes all three. Normally about now I would be typing "look into joining your local NAVHDA chapter" and even ...

aulrich

To a certain extent it sounds like a “place” issue, there has probably been tons of rep’s in the short grass, and area type settings so in those places the dog knows what is expected. But I bet the field was/is still a place of fun where OB is optional , a lower level or the excitement level of the ...

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Steady, steady and more steady, to get ready for UT test in August

I actually want to take the boy goose hunting and ducks over decoys, we are going to have to figure out how to hide the big white dog 

aulrich

Nice!

aulrich

x2 Thing of it this way, up until after the pup's first hunting season the name of the game is exposure, exposure to the field, birds, the gun, water. real formal training comes after that. But like don said not fully true, basic pet dog OB here, kennel, no is a constant. One bench mark I have heard...

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It’s been a while since I watch the Hichox video (I used the e-collar portion of it only). IIRC 1. you have a tethered “scent” bird. 2. You cc the dog downwind if the dog does not stop and point, you stop the dog when he shows signs that they smell the bird. 3. Without applying “too much” pressure g...

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