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This is humor, come on ,that's OK never got Benny Hill myself

Hope that you realize that there was more than a little sarcasm hidden in my last post. While I myself don't pretend to be the most civil person,I've not found American Gundog people or sites to be particularly helpful or encouraging (trying hard to be polite) even less so when I though about trials...

To crackers your voluminous post put me on my Boykin to begin with,having seen you on most every site where gun dogs are mentioned. The quake mentioned was 7.5 or better, she woke me up Saturday when she heard the Tonga volcano erupting. Yes we heard it here in alaska.I do greatly object tobeing cal...

Thank everyone for their replies y'all are so much more civil and helpful than any American gun dog site I have sought help on. We will start over with conditioning to shot this summer ,if we ever thaw out.

IMG_20220111_142821.jpg This is Gluteny he is nor a gun dog he is a working dog though.Glutnet ran the Iditarod three times.He was just recovered today he has been on his own since new years eve when he took off from fire works near his home and a twit who was charged with taking care of him.11 day...

Asking this question has made me ask myself what I was missing,it occurred to me over the weekend that this started on a Ptarmigan hunt about 2 weeks after we had a major earthquake which I had not considered before since she didn't show any kind of trauma from the quake

No she has never been very close to rifel or pistol fire,she does hear distant gun fire almost daily.There is a public shooting range a mile and a half away and many of the neighbors can be heard shooting rifle and pistol on their property very regularly ,she will sometimes look in the direction of ...

What I was getting at ,is she has had many successful retrieves for 2 seasons with no regard to gun fire then after a lay off of a couple seasons she had become gun shy
Guess when it warms up will star over like she is a puppy

Thank you ,but we didn't start gun shy she hunted grouse and Ptarmigan for 2 seasons, her first and second years then due to illness in the family not her ,hunting ceased 2 years. This is when she showed shyness ,when going after Ptarmigan in the fall ,since winter came early and hard we had limited...