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DonF

How about a registered name? "Rooster's Wicked Sister"!

DonF

"When he is in the house he retrieves to hand over and over and over again". You could use the same bumper in the house and heck retrieve to hand, take the bumper outside and its instantly a game of keep away. This is now what he is doing with birds so the check chord is the only way. So pretty muc...

DonF

Don, He came in with a little help from me on the CC. Yesterday he happened to drop the bird, most of the time he likes to keep it. YEsterday I played "fetch" with the bird for 4-5 tosses, just to show him it was a game, like using the bumper. "if you bring it to me, I'll throw it for you again.." ...

DonF

He's not a puppy "sometimes". He is a puppy period! You know what is going to happen so don't play the game his way. You want to see him retrieve a bird? Put a check cord on him and throw a dead one for him, where's he gonna go? If you keep shooting birds for him just to see if he's gonna do it thi...

DonF

No breed of dog is 99.9, thats looking thru rose colored glasses IMHO. It also is worth remembering most pointing dog breeds have been bred for what they do for 100-300.......or more years, while this idea of breeding special individuals within the Labrador retriever breed has been going on for wha...

DonF

Looks like a Sis to me!

DonF

He's not a puppy "sometimes". He is a puppy period! You know what is going to happen so don't play the game his way. You want to see him retrieve a bird? Put a check cord on him and throw a dead one for him, where's he gonna go? If you keep shooting birds for him just to see if he's gonna do it this...

DonF

Your making it to complicated and passing judgment on a pup before it grows up some. Find a blood line you like, decide if you want a male or female and tell the breeder thats all you want to se or if you don't care about gender, look at them all. See one ya like to look at? Take it and go home, wha...

DonF

tn red wrote:DonF what lines are producing 99.9% pointing dogs that i can kill a bird over with min training?

GSP field lines, English Setter field lines, English Pointer lines, Brittany lines and probably more. These I amm reasonably familur with.

DonF

There's a bunch of people that porcupine break their dogs the same as snake breaking. That has got to be tuff!

DonF

It would be one thing to run those dogs in a sanctioned AF or AKC field trial and even place, quite again another to run them in some venue most people never heard of and win. Must be nice to arange a venue that favors your perception of what a good dog is. I believe that a Lab in an AF or AKC field...

DonF

AFC is an amature field champion in trialing. Designates the status of the handler. If you train for money you csn't enter amature stakes. Used to be you could regain amature status if you quit training outside dogs for pay for two years. JH is a junior hunter in hunt test's. It's the entry level. T...

DonF

I believe Mike McGinnis probably owned him. He's training around Baker somewhere now last I heard. Only seems to be doing American Field. I
ve watched several of the MRK dogs run, very very good. I watched Mike run MRK's Western Pride, years ago. Hands down the best dog I have ever watched.

DonF

The best way will be, once you start a method do not diveate from it. When you start looking around to fix something your not sure of, you abandon the program. Stay with the program till you understand it. Ya got questions, ask for answer's that work with the method your using. All the methods will ...

DonF

All I introduce the gun with is happy timing. I start out with a 22 rifle and when the pup is out a ways, and interested in something, I hold the muzzle about 2" off the ground and fire. No matter what reaction I get I say nothing and keep walking. If the pup looks scared I ignore it and keep walkin...

DonF

Those last two photo's are wall hangers! Really nice.

DonF

Great story and good looking dog. Good to see young people doing it.

DonF

Congradulations!

DonF

Taking off and running like that could be the pup still in him and could be the pointer blood or a combination of both. You never can be sure just what will pop up in mixed breeding. You probably will have to get and learn to use an E-Collar to get a handle on him now.

DonF

CHJIII wrote:Don't make him shy away from 16 ga. Loads are available. Find them....buy them. Best all around gun for all hunting.

I couldn't agree with you more! But when he learn's to shoot over setter's he will better appreciate a 16ga in a SxS!

DonF

How old is this dog? Sounds like a pretty young dog.

DonF

My dogs learn to sit before whoa and I don't have a problem. What has happened to you is your dog is confused. Don't know how you taught whoa but not to hard to fix your delima. Teach your dog that whoa neans stop and stand still. How you gonna do that? Not to hard. Quit going back to it and standin...

DonF

We've never had gated horses but we had Quarter horses. One of the things we did to keep their hoves pliable was to made them walk thru a mud puddle to get to water. We had one that was thin walled and if we didn't keep them pliable, they wouls crack.

DonF

Lotta truth to that. By changing component's, mainly shot size in a 20ga it can become a duck gun. And by the same methods in reverse a 12ga get's to be a quail gun. I've never shot a 20ga much but I understand you can get a 3" 1 1/4oz load of shot in them now. My old duck hunting load in 12 ga was ...

DonF

I need help learning to post pictures, I go to my pictures on photo bucket and try and highlight the image line so I can right click and hit copy but when I click on the image line to try and highlight it --it says copied and won't highlight Nice looking pup! They changed photobucket. I had a terri...

DonF

adogslife wrote:
Putting a collar on a dog and immediately stimulating the dog is a recipe for a dog becoming collar-wise
I hear this so much.
Is there any proof of this?

Your kidding, right?

DonF

Your first bird gun dog? What do you want to hunt? Looks like a shorthair in your avatar. They are a fine gun dog.

DonF

Boy those photo'sw are huge. Need to size theem down to abouy 600 pixils on the long side.

Here ya go. I cropped them too so the dog didn't get real small.

DonF

Another nice one. someday I'm gonna do one of my guy's like that!

DonF

Well I also want it to be known that I have never had anyone else purchase a firearm for me either but it really upsets me that a business to step on my constitutional right as a legal U.S. citizen with no criminal background whatsoever to purchase a firearm. I hate the fact that we are not allowed...

DonF

Very nice looking dog! If I could suggest, get down on your knees and get her feet in the photo. I like the photo of the day idea. Hope I haven't already posted this one.

Bodie in front and Squirt behind.

DonF

+1

Squirt and Duke neither has ever been shocked, they respond very well to the vibrate. Bodie is a different story. If you ever expect to remove thr collar in the field, you don't want him collar wise.

DonF

It worked great. I only had to use 3 real ducks this past summer for the Invitational training so it saved me a ton of money. In my opinion, what happened was the dog first learned to track using scent's and then was turned on to ducks later. Had the stuff really smelled like a duck I doubt it woul...

DonF

I'd be carefull with the traps, they will also catch your dog! How do you figure? http://www.tractorsupply.com/lawn-garden/lawn-garden-pest-control/live-animal-traps/catch-and-release-live-animal-trap-42-in-x-15-in-x-15-in--5132014 You dont have to use leg hold traps.....just sayin. Your kiding, ri...

DonF

I just read the thing on the foundation. That is the one Wilson Dunn got going. A former client stopped there years ago and said it was great!

DonF

I was not aware that it was not connected to the AKC or AF. I think that makes a great difference. I voted for him! Good luck getting him there, you've been trying hard for several years now.

DonF

Sharon is right plus, if something bad happen's with a oigeon you can fix it and go on, you'll probably never hunt pigeons with a pointing dog. Another good thing about pigeons is that when they fly away, no later than evening for sure they will be back home ready to use the next day. They are tanti...

DonF

I have tried them and find them a complete waste of time. I never did the drag for tracking you talk of but that can be done with a bead bird, wings off a dead bird or just the dummy or even a rag with your scent on it. I think the test they do there is to evaluate tracking skills. You'll be suprize...

DonF

I'd be carefull with the traps, they will also catch your dog!

DonF

Somehow when I was there I didn't speak much german either but was able to communitate. Do they still have the oil or gas water heater's there? First place we had to carry up oil a gallon at a time to heat water. Last place had a box we put marks into for how ever much time we wanted water. You guy'...

DonF

I don't own a 12 or a 20 anymore. I use a 16 and a 28. For what you want though I'd take a 12 in a heart beat. You can load it with 1oz shot and it should give a better shot string than a 20 and you can go way above what the 20 can.

DonF

He's new to bird dogs and we are trying to cheer him up!

DonF

I've tried downloading that Adobe deal to see youtube several times, it doesn't work for me. How did you get it? They want $39 for help on the phone, should be able to buy the program for that.

DonF

I went out with a friend in the Cascades Friday afternoon and Saturday. Squirt and Bodie usually stand on the passenger seat and slobber all over the dash when we go anywhere. Saturday afternoon they slept all the way home. Got out at home ate their dinner and went back to sleep, didn't even get me ...

DonF

Nice looking pup! I spent three years in Germany in the service, Bavaria was great. what's a mark worth now? It was a quarter when I was there. Does your wife know about that girl in your avatar?

DonF

Good story and good photo's! I'm not much on ducks, don't care to eat most of them. But Teal is great!

DonF

When I lived in Montana I hunted grouse a lot and really enjoyed it. I've only hunted them here two times and they are very difficult to find so far. Biggest problem being all the brush they are in. This past weekend I had two flushes on Friday evening and six Saturday morinig. Never saw a one of th...

DonF

Congradulations! And remember without picture's, there are no pups!

DonF

Good luck to ya!!

DonF

drake handler wrote:I think one of the only reasons people use pidgeons is because they are small and non intimidating(Ussually). Pretty much just so the dog dosnt get beat up and scared of the birds.

That my friend, could not be farther off track!

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