Recent content by cockerfan

About a month ago I moved back to where I am originally from, eastern Iowa. I am working a job that will probably be transferring me in a couple of months...hopefully to a state that has birds! Anyway, this evening on the way home from work I saw a flock of 8 partridge! Haven't seen one of those...

Polly outdid herself and produced six healthy, lively, little Cocker pups. This is a repeat breeding that has produced some outstanding dogs in the past. Excellent prospects for hunting or trialing. Three males and three females in the litter. As you can see in the pictures, they're all black...

I have recently bred one of my cocker females, and should have pups on the ground in mid April. The breeding is with Polly and Dani. This breeding has already produced Rocky, a dog you may have seen on the forum in the past. Rocky passed the first two legs of his MH the weekend he turned a year...

Just picked up another puppy last week. I saw the thread with people posting about a Springer addiction and felt convicted to reveal my Cocker addiction as well :) Chica makes Cocker number five for me. She's a looker, don't you think? The day after I got her, the rest of my dogs were...

Coot, are you going to tell the opening day story, or do I need to? There is no way he is getting out of this one!

Well, it is almost a sure thing that I will be moving back to Iowa in about a month. I will be living in the boonies a few miles north of Bonaparte, which is in the very SE corner of the state. There's not much for birds in that area, but the locals are telling me that there are quail around. If...

It's slow on here...how about a video? :) This was Rocky earlier this evening. Prior to this dummy launcher (thanks Jeff!) I'd never been able to give Rocky a retrieve that came even close to reaching this island. This was his first time ever getting a retrieve out to the island, so I was...

My wife snapped this a few minutes ago. I often sit on the floor against the couch when I'm working (or playing) on my computer so that I'm more on the dogs' level. They ended up taking the couch anyway this evening and then got interested in checking out UPH...

I watched Nimrod using the Lucky Launcher with his dogs and realized I need to be me one of them things! I'd like to get a cheaper model if I can get away with it and still get good performance though. Does anyone have any experience with the Retriev-R-Trainer dummy launcher, or have any other...

A couple of weeks ago we had a large hailstorm in my area and my Camry was totaled from the hail. It was actually a huge blessing because my "dog collection" keeps growing, and gas prices make it impractical to drive my Ridgeline every time I take the dogs somewhere. I was really looking for...

I took Rocky to our first ever hunt test this past weekend and we managed to come home with two ribbons from the master level. The handler (me) had some problems, but Rocky did great and we made it through. It was a blast; can't wait to do it again!

I came up to Iowa yesterday to visit my family over the holidays. My parents happen to live in the country and are close to some pretty decent habitat. There's an awful lot of snow on the ground, which made the walking laborious, but we managed to find and put down a couple of birds. Macy...

How's the pheasant population looking in that area? I know further west is supposed to be the hotspot, but are there birds to be found in the NE? Also, are the walk in properties decent? I think I've got an opportunity at the end of the month to hunt in that area for a day or two. I'll be coming...

Anyone have any experience with these things? I just found out from my parents that my Christmas gift is coming from there. My first thought was to look at dog items, but since the vast majority of my spending money has gone toward my dogs for quite a while, I thought maybe I'd look at something...

I didn't actual hunt this morning, nor did I train my dogs, but it was a great morning anyway because...I found an opportunity to give my dogs some bird exposure! Since moving to Tx, I have been lamenting the fact that there are not opportunities to put my dogs on birds without spending money at...