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TJC
PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:08 am  Reply with quote
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C'mon now Huns. You know 2 of the best damn DD's around. Very Happy

The Deutsch Drahthaar is one of the most versatile breeds going (ok, I'm a bit prejudice). Hard working, great noses, GOOD looking etc etc.
Hunt pheasants in the AM, woodcock or grouse later and ducks in the late afternoon. If you need to blood track a deer, they'll do that too. Smile It don't get much better than the DD. Like I said, I'm a bit prejudice. Wink

Can someone tell me how to post a pic, I'll show you 2 GOOD looking DD's.

And NO Ugly Dog jokes Huns. Wink Or we'll start picking on Labs.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:39 am  Reply with quote
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TJC, there's really no need for me to make disparaging remarks about the girls looks....... Jd says it all "they just got to look like something"

Now I'll give you, that being of limited abilities, and very little imagination, I have no idea what that something is, but sombody must. Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes


BTW my first guess at what DD was, dumb dog, guess I wasn't that far off
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Hey, aren't you going fishing. Razz

No one could come up with disparaging remarks about The Girls. They be perfect. There, a Dad has spoken.

Leaving in about 20 mins to take my 2 and the new little pup you saw pics of out for a training session. This should be a hoot.

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My traing buddy has 2 male DD and thinks they look like junkyard dogs,He is quite pleased with that. I think they quite charming with a ruggedly handsome,
but with a slightly unkept appearance, just like me!!! Laughing Laughing Laughing

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[quote="JDbut with a slightly unkept appearance, just like me!!! Laughing Laughing Laughing JD[/quote]

JD, me too during the hunting season from Nov through Dec. I take my Vac time and "let myself go". OK, I know I just opened myself up so go ahead Huns.

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[quote]I trained a standard poodle to work as a duck dog. good in the water , great eye sight, and very smart.The coat was a pain ,you could not get swampmud out of it with out a all out bath.You would have to bath him after each hunt or he would stink too much to have inside.


It must have been frustrating with that coat. Problems like that take the fun out of having a dog. Where I'm at, we don't have your swamp mud. If there is muck in the coat, it comes out with a water retrieve, and my poodle has no funny smell. After a bath I can clip him short in the Summer, and let his coat grow long in the Winter.
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Is your poodle a working dog? Does he point also? Mine showed some intrest in pointing. I found that he stayed puppie like for too long at 2 He was acting like a 6 month old pup. With a lab or a pointer he would have been full trained by the end of the first season.

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JD:

I figure working dog means a field dog or retriever. Yes, that's what I'm training him for. He is 11 months old and he retrieves from land and water.

While I think he would be good in Conformation, AKC will only let a poodle be entered if the dog has one of those bizarre, silly-a@@ed froue-froue clips unless they are puppies. They look like da@@ed runway models of the dog world. Their claim is that the clip is based on hunting origins. While that is vaguely accurate, the only thing they are really hunting for is an excuse to make a dog look silly. Those people don't know what a working dog is.

It is interesting you mention pointing. The poodle is supposed to be a retreiver, and not a pointer. I've met a few people that state their poodles tend to point, but that isn't typical for the breed. If a retriever points, some field trialers claim the dog has a low drive to retrieve. Beats me, I don't know if it's true. My way of thinking is if the dog wants to point, let him point and train him that way. If the goal is hunting, who cares about breed standards. My question is: Did the dog help in the field, and would you shoot over it again?

I've not been hunting my dog yet. It's easier to take him to a local training area and work on Hunt Test basics such as obedience and perserverance. Since these are qualities he needs hunting, I'm reinforcing the correct behaviors I need in the field.

The reason I feel confident about hunting even though I've not taken him out, is he will retrieve shot ducks on land and water, also hand casts and from "wingers". I've got to work on heavy cover, and wading though weeds and muck for a bird.

(I'll talk forever about my dog. Be thankful you only asked 2 questions.)

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SEABASCODEGAN, Don't sell the brown dog short on the upland birds. I shot grouse and a bunch of pheasants over my previous chessie.They will stay with a hot track or a cripple like no other dog. Warmer weather is a drawback for them though. Good Hunting.

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Fred,

Don't worry about my selling Chessies short; there'll always be at least one in the house. I went with the setter because I wanted a "specialist" that [I'm hoping] will be genetically programmed for grouse. Upland hunting is pretty much new to me so I need all the help I can get from the dog.

My Chessy dog, Nick, always impressed me with his enthusiasm to retrieve and "mess with me"...pretty much in equal doses. But I could correct him with a clearing of my throat and handle him with a finger; he was not lacking in the smarts department. I guess most dogs have their own personally if you're around them enough...but not many have that Chessy "smile" huh?

When my wife's Chessy passes on one of these years, I'll make sure the replacement gets proper field exposure (hers was trained for bench and obedience...spoiled rotten Rolling Eyes )


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Michael

It fun to have something different. What I wanted to do was to finish traing my poodle. Have him cut in show style, show up at a duck camp and wait for the (boy is he cute coments). Shocked I would be dressed for the part with Penny loafers and a polo emblem on my shirt. The bet would be ( my dog can do anything yours can do in the feild). Wink I most likey would have departed with a lot of their money and banned forever (if things went right). That would have been almost as much fun as out shooting the skeet elete who sneared at my 16 ga double on Saterday. Twisted Evil My poodle did most everything I needed of him, but my hunting style changed and I did not need a dog for a season or two, the coat thing got out of hand. I never finished his traing and he became a house pet. They are not a good dog for a green trainer ,they are so smart they will run the show. Once they find out they can do something different than what you want, they do it for the sport of it. They are real clowns and like to play and tease.
He was just out of a backyard breeding here in town,I kill bugs for a living and swaped a flea job for him. He was a fun dog, I would have liked to see what I could have done with one who had been out of a litter of working dogs. If you do the show clip duck club thing I get 10 %


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JD:

I agree with everything you say! I chose a poodle because of allergies and asthma in my family. I'm happy so far.

There is a woman that runs poodles, and has very good dogs. She used to live in California, and run her dogs in tests out this way. Most people would see the dogs in a hunt clip, and snigger. A guy in a local club won many a bet with people thinking she was a silly woman wasting her time, and then her dogs succeeded!

The dogs are problem solvers, and they will try to solve the problem differently than how you expect.

The coat requires some work. I wash and clip the coat short once a month, and never have to brush the coat like people say is needed.

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