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Badger:
   I used to spend weeks breaking a dog to steady on point, I don't consider myself a rough trainer at all but once I let them know whoa meant whoa it went a lot faster. I like to keep the discipline sessions to a minimum and keep the fun stuff whenever possible, so getting through some of the rough stuff early makes a lot more time for the fun stuff. Both dog and owner appreciate this. I imagine they have better methods now but a wing on a fishing line playing with a pup would usually have the pup almost broke before he ever saw a bird.
     I have a funny story about breaking dogs, I hooked up with a couple of pro's as an apprentise and was eager to learn. They told me they were gonna share one of their secrtes with me about styling a dog up on point, the judges like a stylish dog with a high tal and it will win field trials.
     So when the dog goes on point slowly walk up and while stroking his tail backward to get it nice and high take the left hand and stroke just along the side of his shaft. The dog will start to associate birds with sex and it makes for some real stylish dogs. Well I came back the next weekend for some dog work and wanted to show off the progress I had made. I will be dammed if the first bird my dog pointed didn't give him a woody! I thought those guys were gonna die laughing. I got pissed off and left but by next weekend we were all laughing about it.

NTD:
Steve that's friggin hilarious.  It's funny that you were that driven to get that "styling" point :o.  He pointed all right ROFLMAO ;D

It's must be a dog handler/trainer thing.  At K9 school we were always pranking each other left and right.

I only train in the sport side of it now but there is still a lot of raggin on each other.  Definitely a lot of due paying involved ;)

stickbender:

     I wouldn't have told that one....... ::) ;D ;D  He just might stick around for more...... "styling"........ ;D ;D

                                                                     Wayne

Justin Snyder:
Steve, I got a GSP from a guy that couldn't control it.  The stupid dog did that did that every time we hunted. He had a testosterone problem though. He would try to mount every dog we met, male or female. He also wanted to fight. If you don't have a firm/consistent hand when training, you need to castrate the males.

Badger:
   Justin, I have seen quite a few GSP's that were fighters. A lot of American breeders were sneaking English pointer into their lines trying to win field trials. The English pointers were well infused with pit bulls back in the 1940's to toughen them up a bit. Most of the fight was bred out of the pointers but tended to come back out when they were crossed with something else. Steve

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