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Unread 07-27-2022, 02:03 PM   #1
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"Already have too many"? How many Labs are registered each year? I'll bet it's 10-20 times that of the Dogs in question
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Unread 07-27-2022, 07:53 PM   #2
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That does look like a thorough book, Aaron. I'll try to pick it up. I'm more of a KISS candidate, but it would be nice to read the why behind the how.
I'd like to try the NAVHDA tests. The nearest Canadian test would be about a 13 hour drive. The closest test would probably be the chapter in the Fargo Moorhead area. I don't know what crossing the border with my dog would entail, but their tests are booked up this year anyway.
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I saw one working at our NAVHDA dog training club. Imported at great expense from Czechoslovakia. This one was a super dog.Kind of like a setter with the drive of a shorthair. Did tracking, Water work, pointing and retrieving,honoring the complete dog. Very rare breed in VA. but thats the only one I have seen work.
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Thanks for that, Allen. Good to know some are capable of great work. I wish I had his skill as a trainer. My River seems to have a good nose. A couple of days after I brought him home I took him out in the bush about 10 minutes from home. There is an area of about 30 acres that had been cleared quite a few years ago and had grown up a bit. I was just walking slow in sparse waist high brush letting him smell everything. He got on a trail and I let him follow it. After a couple of minutes I looked over the brush about 35 yards ahead and locked eyes with a large fox kit in front of a 10 foot tall loose pile of bulldozed tree trunks. There was a fairly strong cross wind. I knelt down to snap on River's check cord and let him keep going. The kit was gone when I straightened up. River worked his way on the trail through the brush in an almost straight line to the spot the kit was and spent the next 5 minutes just processing the scent in about a 20 foot area. I called him off and we went on a cross wind angle to the direction we came. Just after we re-entered the scrub brush a kit broke from the brush down wind and bolted for the spot we left. It reached the pile, jumped off two logs and dove into the pile. Must have caught a second kit wandering from the den.
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