Thread: Brittany Spaniel

Yep. She has definitely found some drive. Now to rein her in, can't afford to many more boxes of piss for finders fees

Progress. She's had a rough week or so getting a bit of a tune up off one of the other dogs a couple of times, but she is coming to her name much better now.
On a short longline yesterday and getting a good response to basic commands, running free for maybe five minutes and coming back on the whistle and voice.

Poor ol Pip, she was on a hell of a roll today working in well with the rest of them. Then she hit an electric fence and that was her day done.

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

Poor ol Pip, she was on a hell of a roll today working in well with the rest of them. Then she hit an electric fence and that was her day done.

One good thing about electric fences...they do not associate them with you per se, and they learn to respect fences...although it is not a nice way for them to do so.

I hope it doesn't shy her off to much, we're through fences all the time. Must of been a hell of a boot going by the noise.

Poor thing...just the thought of it makes you cringe!!!! I hate electric fences...!!!

She's done it this time, about to have her second night out in a row.

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

She's done it this time, about to have her second night out in a row.

Do you mean outside with the other dogs, instead of inside on the end of your bed?

good to see i didn't have the only britt that went walkabout.......... picked her up twice 30kms away in hamilton, the third time i told the dog ranger to keep her.

No Tahr, see what kawhia wrote....

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

No Tahr, see what kawhia wrote....

I was being a smart arse. I guessed that was the case.

Thought as much

There is a Brittany in the dog pound in Dunedin at present - is it yours?

Some decades back my hunting mate used to bring his Brittany Spaniel when we hunted in the Kaimanawas and Kawekas. It hated possums and if it winded one it went for the kill 24/7.
It was a good pointer if it was onto a deer, just stood there and looked in the direction of the animal.
My mate shot and wounded a stag from our fly camp in the Hinemaia one roar. His methodology was to leave the animal to settle somewhere or other whilst he finished his brew then take the dog to sniff it out. Well the dog did sniff it out and put the animal up on its back legs while he ran around it yapping. I could hear the commotion from across the valley.
Anyhows, the stag escaped. When I got back it was raining with very heavy rain, I tried to track the animal downstream but we gave it away after a while as it was so miserable and cold and wet and went back to camp for a feed. A week or so later we were back and my mate and his spaniel found the animal just a bit further downstream.
He was one of our team of three. A character as well. One time flying into the hills my mate thought we were going to crash as it was a bit dodgy that day for flying. The dog sensed it and I saw him crouching on the floor of the plane looking worried sick. I just made sure I remembered where the axe was in case I needed to hack my way out if I survived the crash.
He didn't like getting out from under my mate's sleeping bag if it was a bit cold and the snow was banked up outside the hut door. But he was an asset as an extra set of ears, eyes and that acute sense of smell that dogs have.