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You are getting smarter and smarter. Looking forward to meeting her!

I'd think Porcupines would be self training items

You have to build up to fighting through exertion. When they're still learning, you want them to be fresh. When they get tired, they don't learn as well, you get frustrated, and they get confused. ...

You seem like you're trying to pick a fight.

On Conformation, it should be against the breed standard. There is already a divide there between show and field, and that's not good for the breed....

But is it a positive quality? Is it a positive quality for the breed in general? I think that's the question. If we were talking spaniels as in Dave's post above, pointing would be the opposite of...

Easiest solution is to shorten the marks and make them visible. The pup already know's he's not going to go bring back the gun station but he's using that as his target because he can't see or...

Kyle, PM me. I'm a member of the Yadkin Club. We have members from Winston-Salem to Raleigh with our training grounds in Mebane and our Spring Hunt Test will be in Mebane. If you'd like, you're...

Why'd you stop it before he went around and tried the other door?

I wonder if we could patent a Retriever Handler Flagged Rock Chucker. It would accurately launch a flagged rock on a high arching trajectory with a big (biodegradable) flag that would land on the...

If you want an obedient dog that will retrieve for you, the beginning of the process to get there is pretty much the same as the beginning of the process to build a hunt test or field trial dog, and...

Those are great until you go to walk back out after putting them up and see them EVERYWHERE, on EVERY TREE. Then you take a closer look and see that what you thought were your little reflectors are...

I can think of a couple of reasons.

1. They think negative is abusive.
2. They think negative is damaging to the handler/dog relationship.
3. They don't enjoy the negative - and you have to...

Not a judge, and don't have a lot of experience in this area, but it would seem to me that you should at least get dinged for a poor initial line, but I wouldn't think dropped as long as you stopped...

I think we need to get a better handle on definitions of Perseverance, Work Ethic, Desire etc.

I don't think it's a balance of one or the other. Perseverance is not the opposite side of the same...

I didn't see where the OP said anything about an FC, just a field trial dog. There's quite a range there.

Isn't that backwards? Seems to me that perseverance would be the never quit part and work ethic would be the do the right thing part.

I think that perseverance is to some degree something their born with, but isn't there an element of nurture in there too.

A confident dog has more perseverance. If he has known nothing but...

Experience DarrinGreene is the key. The 65 year old lady wasn't able to figure out her own solution to controlling her dog. She felt that the standard program (using a collar) wasn't suitable for...

Xylem, phloem, phloem, xylem...

I'm designing my own process for making maple syrup. I've never made it before, but my pancakes are special and I don't think the way Ken does it will work for...

Ugh. I think it's 5-7-5 anyway...

for a Haiku that is.

Once upon a time
The sap rose up the Maple
Xylem not phloem

The dog of Bora
Has a coat the color of
Boiled xylem sap
Of the Acer Saccharum
With a butter pat

I can do the math and I can count syllables (I think)... there's just no art to my poetry. Do...

I suppose I don't understand the reason for the original post then.

Pretty much, Guage123 (of unknown - to the RTF community at least - training experience) is going to cobble together parts of...

Because once you put the bandana on the golden, that's about as good as it's going to get. :p

More pics of my yaller dawg Seamus.

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Would you believe getting ready to tailgate for a hockey game?

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