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Dear RTF folks,

A new spammer has really been making things extra challenging. I am aware of several accounts, both on RTF as well as some other boards, where someone is trying to log in as an...

This does make sense. The toggle switch cannot get put in the wrong spot. So with the Flyway, you set the dial on the appropriate number (1) and then you have the option to press the black buttons...

"Tigger" is a terrier mix found 2 weeks ago and nobody has come to claim him. Tigger is approximately 6 - 8 months old. He will be neutered, fully vetted/vaccinated. Tigger has played with and...

Wow. I really like the QuickLabs section.

This is not too far off from the conversation I just had on the phone this morning with Tug Hill. I'm quite confident that he will get this fixed. In...

I actually just spoke with Bill about this.

His comments are that he is not sure that he himself could time the stimulation of the #1 setting on the Classic 70 collar with enough finesse to get...

Tug Hill,

I have sent you an email and sent a PM a couple nights ago.

I am currently doing force breaking with 2 young dogs, one of whom was doing (and perhaps still will do) some avoidance by...

I'd like to reiterate - don't use contact lens solution!

I have accidentally put the contact lens cleaning solution on my own contacts, when I thought I was using regular saline. (they are...

I would strongly advise all with questions to use the contact information in the original ad to communicate. PM and reply via RTF may not get timely responses.

I wound up using two anti-siphon holes, one as a primary and another as a backup (in case a snail plugged one) and I also used a check valve on the line. The setup is now in someone else's...

Hi Russ, Shortly after my last post, or maybe right around the timing of my last post, my job changed to a role that requires much more travel. That reef tank required daily maintenance that was...

My read on this Doc, is that this is a bit of a cop out. You have the power to remove the ambiguity. Frankly it appears that you choose to set up the reader for this problem. It is unnecessary.
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Copterdoc,

I have read and re-read this. I don't think Tug Hill will benefit from this as a trainer. I don't think Tug Hill's dog will benefit from this at this point.

I totally disagree that...

I think the less riddle-like the posts are written, which reference "pressure", the more likely it is that the reader will receive a clear message. I think some of the posts you've made in this...

I disagree with this explanation of "indirect pressure".

Below is from Mike Lardy's Volume I: the article entited AFTER COLLAR CONDITIONING:



Copterdoc, I think it is a bad idea to suggest...

I was not so much trying to discount the eyes and the ears.

I do feel, though, that most all FT-aware retrievers, if driven to a trial in a dog box that they could not see out of, in a noisy box...

My only regret: That I was not there to see it!

Congrats to Rhino and the pack!

This is really cool!

This actually highlights one of my absolute favorite all time moments of RTF. I loved that photoshop work!

Hey partner. Please check your PM Box.

Also, please watch your home mailbox.

- cda

I'm not discounting how our dogs communicate. I'm not discounting how our dogs feed off of our body language and cues.

Howard, if you turned off your dogs' eyes and ears, and you drove to a Field...

Isn't this a bit of an oxymoron? Posting a kumbaya with a throwdown challenge?

Someone on the phone today was lamenting the "old days" when one could "verbally disembowel" someone on a keyboard...

In my home, the big, macho, intact male lab does not rule.

One of these terriers does.

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It makes me so happy to see Nancy's Weezie pups go to an RTF home. Especially this RTF home.

An aside: I hear "domino" is likely to be some other even cooler callname. And, domino will be big...

Dead-on. Cancer, Diabetic blood chemistry levels and more.

I think many of us do not give credit to or acknowledge how good the dog's scent detection and mental scent sorting are.

Robert...

Robert, Does this mean you disagree that if one were to turn off the eyes and ears of a seasoned Field Trial or Hunt Test dog, the dog would be able to determine that he/she's at a trial the moment...

The topic of heeling, or lack of it at a test or trial has caused me to create a new topic. This is the smell of a trial - and why it has such a bearing on how our dogs behave at a trial.

How...