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Bird Dog & Retriever NewsThe world’s largest read hunting/dog magazine

Feb/March 2011 Volume 19, Number 4

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What’s InsideThe fun starts here

CEO & PublisherDennis Guldan

PresidentEllen Guldan

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2 This issues featured website3 What’s Inside4 From The Publish-er’s Desk5 Feedback

16 “Mean Seeds” - A Threat To Your Sport-ing Dog?

6 New Products8 The Old-fashioned Cure By Dave Duffey12 Everything in one place! By Dennis Guldan

24 New Report Puts Economic Impact of Feral Cat Predation on Birds at $17 Bil-lion26 Waterfowl Hunt-ing Options That Don’t Crush The Pocketbook

14 Ruffed Grouse Battling Changes In Habitat And High Natural Mortality

18 The Importance of Socializing Your Puppy20 AKC Dog Regis-tration Statistics22 Dog Training Tips Using the Clicker/Vi-bration ApproachBy D.T. Systems Pro Staffer Chad Hines

28 Gun Dog Chron-icles: Reflections on Upland Bird Dogs and Waterfowl re-trievers By Joe Ar-nette31 Industry News33 News From The AKC35 State News59 2011 Dog Shows61 Gun Shows65 Hunt Tests & Field Trials

88 Brittany Results92 Shorthair Results93 Retriever Results97 Spaniel Results99 Vizsla Results102 Advertising Rates103 Market Place108 The Last Laugh

Cover Dog: , French Britts in South Dakota Grady w/bird Victor & Grady w/ bird & Ithaca M-37 16 ga. Steve



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From The Publisher’s Desk

Welcome to the Feb/March 2011 issue of Bird Dog & Retriever News, thanks to our ad-vertisers and our readers for your support. At 109 pages this is one of the largest issues we have had in a while. And hopefully if all goes well by next year we’ll be twice as large.

We have had requests for years to have trial, test and yes even show results. The problem had always been as a print publication that meant more paper, increase cost of printing and postage. Well times have changed and as we come out in two formats now: a quick read print copy and the entire publication printable free from our websites, that has changed things. So now with your help we will have all the trial, test and show results.

At last count this year we are tracking over 1,000 events both field and show, and I don’t think that includes any from our friends in Europe and South America. So we are asking you our readers to email us your results. We are putting up a web page for every dog club we can find so you can get all the information we get. Yes we are the clearing house for the sport. Why? Because the AKC website do not cover NAHRA, NSTRA or America Field events. Retriever Field Trial News does not cover show events or all retriever events. And few groups cover events across the border. So since we host more web pages about dogs than anyone else, it only seems like we are the right people to do it.

So how about those people that just hunt with or just enjoy having their dogs? Well we won’t forget about you the first 60 pages of this issue, about the entire former size of this publication, has nothing to do with events. So everyone gets the best of both.

The magazine is growing but that is not the only place we are growing. Since last we chatted we added about 300 pages online and about 2,000 more Facebook friends. Life’s not all bad!

Only problem is I have run out of room to talk about this issue. Well turn one page back and you can see all the great things we have inside. Remember don’t forget about us when you get those event results, or email us some pictures or a article, we are making room for them all!

See you around,

Dennis Guldan Publisher Bird Dog & Retriever News



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Trail Quest Wirehaired Pointing Griffons Photo by Adam Sandefur, Mishawaka, IN

Lacy with her puppies born February 12, 2010Setterland Setters, Clara

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Duffey’s DomainWords of Wit & Wisdom From Dave Duffey

Gun dogs that retrieve are a blessing and rank a genuine conservationist, making sports-men out of shooters by keeping them honest. Recovered game birds must be counted in the bag limit. Lost birds not only are wasted but few hunters include unrecovered game as part of their legal limit.

However there are dogs clever and proficient at salvag-ing shot game who inflict dam-

age on the birds they retrieve. In combination with the shot charge, canine dentures can render game unfit for the table. When a gun dog brings back a bird that’s been mangled so badly it’s not worth cleaning and cooking that dog is charged with being “hard mouthed”.

This vise is shrugged off or ignored by some. But to others it ranks right along with gun shyness as the worst fault a

hunting dog can have. In both cases, because of the difficul-ty effecting a “cure” (and that uncer-tain chances of success using any n u m b e r of “medi-cines”) the best advice t h a t c a n be given a hunter is to start over w i t h a n -other pup; or ship old Mighty Mo-

lars off to a pro and hope his corrective method clicked.

There are good hunting dogs worth a try at working out this problem and there are hunters who have to, or would rather, do it themselves. The “technique” I’ve used for years is elemental and cheap. I guar-antee it will not work with ev-ery dog. But, in my experience, even forced-training to retrieve (the “guarantee” against hard mouth) isn’t 100%. So what I’m suggesting probably will work as well as anything for the hunter/trainer who wants to eat what is dog has fetched.

For the impatient in a “quick fix” would-be-trainers I’ll tip you off to the tool that will help you get the job done right now. Then you can get started without being kept in suspense. For those curious about the background some insights into a seat-of-you-pants, old fashion way of preventing or curing a bad fault, some explanations will follow.

Get a scrub brushWell over half-a-century

ago when I started doing this, you could find a scrub-brush (and a washboard) in almost any household. Today you may have to shop around to find a hardware store that carries them. And a generation or two of hunters may not even know what one is.

A scrub brush is a hand tool once employed by stooping laundresses and on their knees cleaning ladies. The brush bris-tles stick out from a flat wooden

The Old-fashioned CureScrub out hard mouth

By Dave Duffey



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or plastic grip. Typically, there are four rows a bristles and the grip (handle) measures about 8-inches long, to 2 1/2 inches wide and less than 3/4 inches thick. If you have a brush of slightly different dimensions stowed away someplace use it. You won’t have to shop and it’s already paid for. You might get the job done with a single brush.

But it’s worth buying a “matched pair”. Scrub-brushes won’t cost you anything near that of the match brace of dou-ble guns you’ve yearned for; or the price of a field champion bred Labrador Retriever pup and the training fees you’ll be risk trying to turn him into something approaching your expectations... it’s like you can get a brace of brushes for a couple bucks.

When you get home, fasten them together, back-to-back. You can use thin plastic strap fasteners, screws or bolts. It’s difficult to nail two brushes together. I offer that bit of bril-liance only to substantiate that I don’t recommend doing things I haven’t tried out. Believe me nailing’s a losing proposition.

If you are really economy minded and you frequently use the scrub-brushes for what they were intended.... or to scour out kennel club’s tubs and buckets, groom a dog or horse... you can bind two brushes together with a cord (the bristles rows secure it) and quickly separate the two by undoing the cord after a training session.

The double scrub-brush has now become a training dummy. All you have to do is go out and start throwing it for your dog, presumably that Mighty Molars will fetch. Use of this bristly dummy early on will do very good job of preventing an incipient hardmouth and in respectable number cases can result in curing existing hard-mouth.

It is cheap, durable and can be used on land or water. The only drawback I’ve discovered is that it often “floats low” and is difficult for a swimming dog to see. But with a dog that likes to retrieve, considering the distance you’re able to fling this dummy, it’s not much of a problem.... and when you are using a scrub-brush dummy it is for the purpose of preventing or curing a “mouth problem” not to “stretch out” the length of the retrieves you expect your

dog to make. The scrub brush can prevent or cure your dog from mishandling game.

If you do want to flinging the “dummy” as far as possible, most brushes come with the hole bored on one end so they can be hung on a nail. Match the holes and run in a short length of slinging rope, knot each end and you’ll gain distance.

The difficulty in spotting scrub-brush dummy as com-pared to high-riding white boat bumpers may actually increase the dog’s interest result in his using his nose as well as his eyes when swimming.

If you utilize any commer-cial “training scents” to arti-ficially introduce your dog to game bird scent, it can also be

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