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gotta spell it out sometimes

Originally Posted by EeeBees

No El B, I just think your response to the dog was a bit over the top, actually...but hey, I am just a peasant who knows jack nothing about dogs...there you go...

Ill send him a good cotton wool telling off next time just for you Victoria!lol
Here is the said abused animal next to his bosses bed where he sleeps in the bosses kennel -soooo abused

Originally Posted by RCGSP

That's a great way to raise a really boring dog.

If that's what you're after then great. Raising completely obedient dogs is easy. Raising completely obedient dogs that run hard and range wide with great drive and style is the hard part. What you are suggesting will get the first part which is probably what you're after and good for you. I'm after the 2nd part as are several other people here.

Exactly - some people are happy with that level of drive suppression, lots of deer dogs raised that way. I would almost go as far to say that most of NZ hunters are OK with less drive if it means control. But like you say, balancing drive with control is the trick to a great dog. Thing is most people don't want great dogs.

It must be hot all over the country if we are all inside on computers! its 33 degrees here

Same here...awful...the river beckons...

Originally Posted by el borracho

Ill send him a good cotton wool telling off next time just for you Victoria!lol
Here is the said abused animal next to his bosses bed where he sleeps in the bosses kennel -soooo abused

Thats better...!!!!!

Originally Posted by Pointer

I would almost go as far to say that most of NZ hunters are OK with less drive if it means control.

Which I think is why the lab is so popular here.

Out in it all week pointer, averaged 32 in the shade for the last six days, christ knows what it was in some of the gullys/hotspots.. Enjoying the chillout inside in the cool.

Hell, the dogs won't even eat till dark it's that warm.

I agree Wirehunt, and that why I usually recommend labs over pointing breeds unless people have the work from them

I've just come back inside, spraying off after the corns been harvested, too bloody hot! My thermometer reckons it hit 34 today, its at 32 now thank Christ. No weather for hairy dogs! Setter is tits up on the lawn after a swim in the ditch

I had a huge breakfast after walking the dog 8km and am still having a siesta at 2.16pm

Too hot for work, beer weather!

Tis getting very close to that time indeed. But because I feel ssooo thristy I better not start to soon.