i hate you all i have live with dogs for nearly 20 years and now that i am out on my own i dont have one not because of how much it costs but because i cnt give the dog the time its needs and raise it right but thanks for showing me all the pics of all your best friends
hi post pic if your hunting dogs
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I have freinds that have the same problem, they bought a retired cocker #####, well retired from breeding. She will stay indoors for 10 hrs a day with a good walk at each end of the day and work on the weekends. An older dog is more appreciative of an indoor lifestyle than a pup. look around, ask a breeder you never know what will come up. My dogs retire from the beating line at about 8 or nine and I stop breeding from them at about 4 or 5. They still get to pick up but the older they get the more luxuries they get, staying indoors overnight etc. Dogs are like guns for me, I cant bear to part with any. Pups are different. We always sell the ones I want to keep but not the ones the wife likes, I have yet to work that one out!
What time of year is your trialling season? This August I met a couple of Lab and Flatcoat triallers on the road between Toronto and Cornwall. It seemed a bit hot to be trialling dogs but they were on their way to a 3 day event near Cornwall. Our season tends to coincide with the shooting season with minor club runs and qualifications before. September to Feb we shoot which means that its cool enough to work the dogs flat out!
What time of year is your trialling season? This August I met a couple of Lab and Flatcoat triallers on the road between Toronto and Cornwall. It seemed a bit hot to be trialling dogs but they were on their way to a 3 day event near Cornwall. Our season tends to coincide with the shooting season with minor club runs and qualifications before. September to Feb we shoot which means that its cool enough to work the dogs flat out!
Some nice dogs... but I have both the cutest and the toughest... I'm serious.
This is Niijii at six weeks. She is half Lab and half Springer... her Mom and Dad are both top notch bird dogs. She is the cutest dog in the world....
Her Playmate is Chloe the English Mastiff... she is learning the ancient canine martial art of Chu-U... she has a plaid belt already!
I had to put down my faithful friends Omak and Sally the same weekend this Summer
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A Man without a Dog... is a might less than he could be.
This is Niijii at six weeks. She is half Lab and half Springer... her Mom and Dad are both top notch bird dogs. She is the cutest dog in the world....
Her Playmate is Chloe the English Mastiff... she is learning the ancient canine martial art of Chu-U... she has a plaid belt already!
I had to put down my faithful friends Omak and Sally the same weekend this Summer
... A Man without a Dog... is a might less than he could be.
TimC, our Spaniel trial season is broken into a spring season and a fall season. The spring season is May / June and the fall season is Sept / Oct. The Spaniel trial season culminates in Canada with the Canadian National held mid to late October. You're right about the weather, late June and early Sept can be too hot for Spaniels. With November to March being too cold, and July / Aug being too hot, we are squeezed for time to get all our trials in.
Attached are some candid photos of the 2006 Canadian National held in central Alberta.
http://www.cnsfta.com/2006National/pictures.html
Attached are some candid photos of the 2006 Canadian National held in central Alberta.
http://www.cnsfta.com/2006National/pictures.html
Here's some pics of my vicious and vial creatures:
The Chocolate is an incredibly vicious creature, usually found under the bed quivering when a thunderstorm comes. Hence he is very gun shy, and even if I open the closet where I keep my Camo, he runs for dear life. Now as for the Black one, she is the real terror . Retrieves like a fat kid on a smartie, as a matter of fact she would probably keel over and die before she gave up on a retrieve. The Chocolate is 7 years oldand the Black is 15 months. Can't wait for the summer to come to do some Hunt Testing with her.
Her first goose hunt this past fall:
And another together:
This is a buddy's Black Lab, she is a cousin to mine:
Here's another of my two, and buddy's Black and Chocolate
Can you tell I have a Labrador Retriever addiction.
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The Chocolate is an incredibly vicious creature, usually found under the bed quivering when a thunderstorm comes. Hence he is very gun shy, and even if I open the closet where I keep my Camo, he runs for dear life. Now as for the Black one, she is the real terror
. Retrieves like a fat kid on a smartie, as a matter of fact she would probably keel over and die before she gave up on a retrieve. The Chocolate is 7 years oldand the Black is 15 months. Can't wait for the summer to come to do some Hunt Testing with her.Her first goose hunt this past fall:
And another together:
This is a buddy's Black Lab, she is a cousin to mine:
Here's another of my two, and buddy's Black and Chocolate
Can you tell I have a Labrador Retriever addiction.
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My wife just melted at the puppies.
And she watched the whole Sask vid.
Thanks guys, and NICE DOGS!
And she watched the whole Sask vid.
Thanks guys, and NICE DOGS!
poor sparky only 8 months old, got a drain and loads of stitches in his shoulder. today our last working day on the shoot for this season and he rips it open on something very sharp. £188 lighter and I am not very impressed. still I am up on the year over all so its not often I can say that. poor lad, we rushed back from the shoot hoping the vet would stick a couple in, he is very relaxed for a springer, but no, she wanted him knocked out!
Oh but to cheer you up here is a pic of his sister that came in the post.
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All nice looking dogs . To the guy with the addiction for labs your not alone .
Puppy pictures?
Well, you start out with an envelope box of these:
Pick one from Box A:
Then you feel all warm and fuzzy when eight months later he shows you he's a bird dog (his "'do" is kind of blown flat because the wind was blowing in his face about 50 mph:
Which of course makes you pretty happy:
Then, you meet a woman that also has a Griffon:
And despite the fact you've made it into your 40's and are still single, before you know it you're married (so the dogs won't be broken up, of course). And Griff's become part of the family outings:
Including shinny hockey behind the house:
Of course, Jaeger isn't as good a hockey player as some people think. Real hockey people will immediately recognize that I never have been able to coach him into keeping his stick on the ice:
Anyway, to finish up, here's a head portrait of Jags as a young adult dog... he's 11 now, still goes like a bat out of hell, but there's more grey than brown in his 'stache and eyebrows...
Well, you start out with an envelope box of these:
Pick one from Box A:
Then you feel all warm and fuzzy when eight months later he shows you he's a bird dog (his "'do" is kind of blown flat because the wind was blowing in his face about 50 mph:
Which of course makes you pretty happy:
Then, you meet a woman that also has a Griffon:
And despite the fact you've made it into your 40's and are still single, before you know it you're married (so the dogs won't be broken up, of course). And Griff's become part of the family outings:
Including shinny hockey behind the house:
Of course, Jaeger isn't as good a hockey player as some people think. Real hockey people will immediately recognize that I never have been able to coach him into keeping his stick on the ice:
Anyway, to finish up, here's a head portrait of Jags as a young adult dog... he's 11 now, still goes like a bat out of hell, but there's more grey than brown in his 'stache and eyebrows...
Since this thread started out funny...
Fox Hound
She doesn't fetch so good, but she's one heck of a crotch sniffer. Watch it though she's got a touch of the Liberal leg humper in her.
Feral Mutt
Like all feral dogs she differs markedly from domestic dogs in her behavior toward people and may actually attack without provocation. Further, these dogs have been known to eat their victims unlike domestic dogs. Though natural carnivores typically attack the throat, feral dogs are more indiscriminate in how and where they attack. That is, they will nip and bite anywhere.
Fox Hound
She doesn't fetch so good, but she's one heck of a crotch sniffer. Watch it though she's got a touch of the Liberal leg humper in her.
Feral Mutt
Like all feral dogs she differs markedly from domestic dogs in her behavior toward people and may actually attack without provocation. Further, these dogs have been known to eat their victims unlike domestic dogs. Though natural carnivores typically attack the throat, feral dogs are more indiscriminate in how and where they attack. That is, they will nip and bite anywhere.
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