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  1. Bitch in season

    in Dogs and Dog Training

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    my 8 month old pup as just started her season :blush: .

    as anyone who owns bitchs ever known one coming into season effecting the other bitch ie behaviour or even starting them off in season ( even though there not due )

     

    my older bitch of 23 months is being a *** again :good: , i,ve caught her trying to mount the pup several times

     

    just wondering :huh:

  3. wild fowling costs

    in General Shooting Matters

    Posted

    thanks guys very interesting :ernyha:

     

    wildfowling looks like a very good way and very reasonably priced way to get a few days shooting.

     

    because of traveling time , i think i would only go a half a doz times per season , but i would also like the oppertunity to travel up to scotland on occasion ,

    so living where i do whats my best option / club to join ?

  8. wild fowling costs

    in General Shooting Matters

    Posted

    just wondering how much it may cost to join a wildfowling club , trouble is i live in land locked nottinghamshire.

     

    i dont mind traveling for a good days outing and of course there are inland waters. no idea of prices etc .

     

    anyone suggest anywhere that may be accesible and affordable

     

    thanks :good:

  9. stop to flush

    in Dogs and Dog Training

    Posted

    Try Fallowfen Gundogs near Newark. I was there today trying to gee my lab up a bit.

     

    Tel: 01636 821600 | Mobile: 07749 807816

     

    cheers kron -- i didnt know if he was still in buisness , does he have a rabbit pen , any idea what the cost per hour is .

    whats the loacation postcode

     

    thanks :good:

  10. stop to flush

    in Dogs and Dog Training

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    need to find a rabbit pen i think in the notts belvoir A52 / A46 area - if anyone knows of any please let me know

     

    hunting into the wind , i forget this simple advice every time :hmm: must get it tattooed somewhere

     

    going to take her out in the morning and use the long lead or try a retractable , see if i can get her closer on the turn and if anything flushes give a tug and stop whistle blast :look: does that sound ok?

     

    thing is shes knows what to do , i,m just going over old ground , the little bu**er :yes:

  12. stop to flush

    in Dogs and Dog Training

    Posted

    just run this by me again

     

    out this morning dogging in as you do 2 pips turn , long pip stop , pip , pip , pip recall.

    was all ok till a few pheasants flushed :yes: , but then they refused to run/fly so my dog breaks and i loose her for 100 yards .

    by then the birds have gone and she comes back to my pip pip pip rolls on her back pi** her pants and says sorry :blush: .

     

    in training with everything from dummies to cold / warm game shes great.

     

    so what do i do , i realise this is a stop whistle versus excitement issue

    do you think this will get better with the more dogging in we do or worse.

     

    i dont wont to give up , so wondering if walking on a lead or line might be a good approach ( with out the hunting up ) and also whats the best way to teach stop to flush :lol:

     

    thanks :lol:

  13. Kennel Security

    in Dogs and Dog Training

    Posted

    yup probably could have done but it would have needed to be the extra skinny type and would have needed boards to get it in, we got this one in down a number of steps and through two doorways through the house. Not simple but if I'd have had a weeks digging to do i'd have found a way!! That said digger plus a grab lorry round us for a weekend would have been £400 plus vat or there abouts and you'd have still had to barrow it out. What you really needed was a couple of polish blokes for a couple of days :hmm:

     

    digger.jpg

     

     

     

    wow -- whats the diamensions of that digger , how small can you get them , just wonder if i could get one down the side of my house :hmm:

  18. little ***

    in Dogs and Dog Training

    Posted

    which springer darren?

     

    was it the younger of the 2?

     

     

    no mate the older one ( 22 months ) , the one i,ve been drilling every day with the damn stop whistle :lol: .

    i had been using the blow the whistle to stop her , then through the dummy out , if shes stopped on my command she gets the retrieve , but if shes slow on the stop i place her back to the stop point and i pick it my self ( similar as you suggested ) routine.

    great at close-ish quarters and she had started to get the message at abit further out say 40/50 yards , she actually stops and looks at me for redirection ( or did ) :lol:

    like i said in one of my other posts she had seemed to have gone up a gear , bit hyper , but then again there as been a lot of scent on the ground.

     

    if only i had an e-collar on her at that vital moment :lol:

     

    the younger one ( 8 months ) i,ve eased up on mate , i,m finding the less i do with her the better especially the retrieving bit just going stick with it until hopefully :hmm: her instincts kick in a bit more .

  19. little ***

    in Dogs and Dog Training

    Posted

    went out to do some dogging in this morning , took my little *** of a springer with me , hoping to drive the stop whistle message home ( good oppertunity i thought ) :good: .

     

    All went really well flushed plenty back stop whistle working as good as it used too .

    just finnishing up after a 1 hour 20 min walk heading back to the car and walked up an edge where i did,nt expect to see a single bird and WHAM my bitch flushes 3 sets of birds in quick consession , i,d put my whistle away and she was having a bit of a free run.

     

    Anyway it was too much for her and she took off after them ran into the cover , i,m whistleing and shouting like mad flushes 3 more birds , by now i,m running up hill after here and shes on her way back to me , boy did i feel like throttling her :lol: .

    totally ruined my day and felt like crying :lol:

     

    next time i,m on that stretch i will be ready :D

  21. feed effects

    in Dogs and Dog Training

    Posted

    not chaged foods just new bags of the same stuff:-

    skinners maintenance and raw tripe ( pet shop freeze dried ) twice a day

    and couple of ( pet shop ) hide chews a day

     

    i notice in the skinners feed the 1st main ingriedient is wheat/cereal and the protein content is 19% , basically a cheap food at £15 per 15kg sack.

    it seems to suit the digestion ok though :yes:

     

    it seems like she as gone up a gear , but also gone off a gear as well like shes lost the plot sometimes.

    if she was any where near a season i,d blame that :good: .

  24. pain in the **** pup

    in Dogs and Dog Training

    Posted

    lads -- just re-read my own post and your right she is young and i have been trying to train the 2 dogs along side of each other ( seperately of course ) being short on time maybe i,ve jumped the gun :P . this morning she retrieved a rubber water dummy to hand 3 times in a row , very strange :) , like a fool i throughs it out again and she just ignores it , i should of stopped while the going was good ;)

     

    one more question :- because shes not too keen --- do you think shes too young to be shown or associate scent with what it actually comes from , ie. if she accidently flushes say

     

    a rabbit would it be better to let her give chase after the scent at this stage ( to try and build up enthusiasium ) or get out there and stop her.

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