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Great pictures Ted!
It looks like he will be as big as his maternal grand sire Coronation’s Earl who was about 60+ lbs. Ted, when he’s on point make him “steady” and lift his tail manually and sharply rap the underside of his tail while repeating “Steady”. It’s a learning process for a lot of young dogs. I can see by that first picture that he has a great fun-loving attitude. One of his sisters has those all black ears too. .
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Coronation Kennels/ Twombly setters
We had a brace of littermate males purchased by a doctor in penn. He brought them for Obedience and Bird training last summer, as a team they would stalk a sight bird with the lead dog crawling and the backing dog in full hi head point. They self taught this. Both these dogs are from Burdock of Coronation Breeding. Ted pm me your ph # so we can help with heeling. Graysons sisters are developing nicely retrieving to hand from land and water.
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07-17-2018, 04:58 PM | #25 | ||||||
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Thanks Dean, I was wondering if the tail thing was strictly instinctive or if some sort of training can reinforce it. Thanks for the suggestion. He certainly loves to have fun with people and he is always in a playful mood. Still very much a puppy. Here he is at fishing camp...keeping an eye on what was happening out on the dock.
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07-17-2018, 05:36 PM | #26 | ||||||
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Tail or no tail.... That is one handsome Setter !!!!!
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07-17-2018, 09:26 PM | #27 | ||||||
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Ted - each dog has it's own personality and training requirements. A setter isn't always a high-tailed pointing dog and if that's what you want from him, he will need your encouragement and your praise when he pleases you - he will always try to please you.
Grace still needs reminders to hold her tail up especially early on in each successive bird season and on our walks and runs when she freezes on a "stink sparrow" or mourning dove or robin. At those times I 'steady' her and walk up beside her, hold her tail in the position I want it in and rap the underside of it as I say "Tail up! - Tail up!" She will hold her tail up after that. .
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07-18-2018, 07:14 AM | #28 | ||||||
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Hi Dean - thanks again for the advice. Not too concerned about getting what I want from Grayson as far as style goes; it's last on the list, really, of my concerns. That said, everybody loves to see a working dog doing its work with style and for me a stylish point in the grouse woods is special. So I will do what I can to encourage it. Holding his tail out or up...either would be fine with me. He does it at times so I know he can.
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07-18-2018, 10:16 AM | #29 | ||||||
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Twombly setters
My Grandad Earl Twombly said when asked about tail positioning,
" I'm much more interested in what the front end is doing." We can all agree on that! |
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07-18-2018, 12:07 PM | #30 | ||||||
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Wish I’d known him Legh.
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