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Happy Holidays – Buone feste
Italiano in basso Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 2017 has been an interesting but very busy here: there were (are) many articles for you in my mind but almost no time to write them down. but I promise I’ll keep trying to publish interesting contents on the blog. The Gundog Research Project (click to check) is still in progress, waiting for me to pass my last (yahoo) veterinary medicine exam. I also set up an Instagram account to keep in touch with readers more easily… but I will keep writing and we also have a Facebook page. I also want to thank two unexpected contributors who gave a lot…
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Let us train our dogs
Field trials and… the (half) naked woman
Mario Canton, il levriero afgano e altro
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Tok Mostert su Sentieri di Caccia
Ogni tanto sono un po’ svampita (nonché indaffarata con il questionario del Gundog Research Project) e ho dimenticato di avvertire i lettori che alcuni consigli sull’addestramento, a cura di Tok Mostert, sono disponibili su Sentieri di Caccia di questo mese. Ovviamente, questa volta, sono scritti in italiano, per chi si lamentava della difficoltà del leggerli in inglese. Ci sarà anche una seconda parte sul numero di maggio.
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Gun Proofing your Dog by Tok Mostert
C’era una volta… l’addestramento
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Too much of a gundog – by Tok Mostert
As I walked through the door of the large gunshop, the familiar aroma of gun oil mixed with freshly ground coffee filled my sense of smell. The well stocked bookshelves drew my attention and I headed to the dog training section, maybe hoping to find a quick fix to training a better gundog. With a pile of books under my arms, I settled in the plush leather couch to learn a thing or two, I did learnt something, but not what I wanted. The generic layout is one thing, but every chapter in every book that covers selecting a puppy may as well have been plagiarism, it is way too…
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Do you click with your dog? – by Tok Mostert
Just in case folks think I have forgotten about training dogs😊 Do you click with your dog? It normally took years for trends to reach African shores, that was until Africa discovered the worldwide web. Information and training techniques spread like wildfires over a sun-dried African savannah, for good or for bad these techniques were spread like the gospel and seen as the miraculous training method. This, unfortunately, does not only apply to Africa, but to many parts of the world. To break it down, you need to have a comprehensive understanding of how a dog’s mind works. A dog understands his name by repetitive training and positive reinforcements. A…
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Name Training by Tok Mostert
I have seen many people train dogs yet I have seen very few people name train their dogs. I had a interesting conversation with Flake’s breeder yesterday on this particular subject. Sure your dog knows it’s name, but do you use it consistently before every command? I know I do. “Flake – Out” “Flake – Sit” ” Flake – Stay” ” Flake – YES, YES” Sounds pretty simple and for the most part name training a dog could be seen as pretty useless, but for those of us who train multiple dogs and run with bracemates, name training may just give you the edge over someone else. For instance when…
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A Time to Reflect (on Training) by Tok Mostert
I am busy packing for a long holiday, Louise, my companion, says she is actually taking me away so that Flake can get some rest. There is truth in that, sometimes we get caught up in pushing so hard and trying to get to the next level with our gundogs that we forget to have fun, so should your dog. What few of us realize is that the “next level” holds more problems, more challenging training situations and that often we made a mistake in our initial training and that we now have to go back and fix that before we can move on. If you are serious about your…
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Gun Proofing your Dog by Tok Mostert
Introducing a dog to gunfire is and will remain a critical element in his training. Many good dogs have been ruined by a wrong use of gunfire and some develop problems later that are not easy to solve. Having a gun shy dog is frustrating and leads down a long path of re-training and sometimes a dog that cannot be hunted at all. The dog becomes so frightened by gunfire that when he does scent a bird he will avoid pointing, as this will lead to a shot or even more shots being fired. I have a somewhat different approach to training my dogs, gundog or lapdog all receive the…
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Mind the Wind by Tok Mostert
So… you think running a good field dog is all about the dog, maybe, but a good handler will be able to interpret the conditions and “assist” the dog to have the best possible chance of finding birds. Temperature, moisture content, humidity and wind all play a part in the scenting conditions and that is something all dog handlers should keep in mind, if they want to consistently hit birds on the field. Often handlers will say, the wind just did not work for us or the birds where holding tight and the dog could not find them. Even a great dog will have days in which the wind plays…
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We are Losing Legendary Methods (Fieldwork 4) – By T. Mostert
Tok Mostert, a Professional Hunter from South Africa, now living in Sweden, is sharing his writings on dog training with us. You can start reading them from Part 1 here. We are Losing Legendary Methods (Fieldwork 4) – By T. Mostert Hunting your Dog, the Best Experience Flake kept on improving to the stage where we shot several birds over her, placed birds and wild birds. The single biggest mistake you can make with placing birds, is making the game it too easy. The dog should work, work hard for each and every bird, some days I placed no birds or only ran her once other dogs have cleared a field.…
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We are Losing Legendary Methods 2 – by T. Mostert
Too much of a gundog – by Tok Mostert
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We are Losing Legendary Methods (Fieldwork 3) – By T. Mostert
Tok Mostert, a Professional Hunter from South Africa, now living in Sweden, is sharing his writings on dog training with us. You can start reading them from Part 1 here. We are Losing Legendary Methods (Fieldwork 3) – By T. Mostert Planting Birds (… & backing) In hindsight, I should have been able to read Flake better when she was younger. I was so focused on getting her to do what I wanted that I neglected to see the little signs she gave of her natural ability to find birds. I took many photos of her as a pup and now, when I go through them, I find several photos that…
