FCSpringer
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I need to go on a diet. I am getting way too fat. I might have to sell my Springers and get a flab or a pointy thing so I eat less.
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FCSpringer
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SetterNut
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If gaining weight is a problem maybe you should make the dog stay and let you retrieve. Chasing a cripple would burn some off
The season can't get here fast enough. I'm running short of smart a$$ remarks
FCSpringer
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Oh I am just getting warmed up LOL. Between Flabs and pointy things there is just too much to needle about.
I came accross this new food. Must be made to directly address an issue.:thumbsup:
I came accross this new food. Must be made to directly address an issue.:thumbsup:
carptom1
Well-known member
If gaining weight is a problem maybe you should make the dog stay and let you retrieve. Chasing a cripple would burn some off
The season can't get here fast enough. I'm running short of smart a$$ remarks
Chasing cripples. Sounds like a true pointer guy
SetterNut
New member
Well with pointing dogs if we choose we can head shoot the bird and have it fall directly into our vest pocket.
carptom1
Well-known member
Well with pointing dogs if we choose we can head shoot the bird and have it fall directly into our vest pocket.
Funny story. I witnessed a blocker shoot a rooster flying at him years ago in a milo field in Philipsburg Kansas. He caught the falling bird before it hit the ground. It was the farmer who's land we were hunting. He was wearing a new windbreaker his wife had bought him and the rooster shot blood all over the front of it as his last dying act.
Labs don't get fat on their own, but because their owners have no dicipline. My two labs (yellow male 12, black female 4) weigh around 75-78 lbs, but would be heavier if I let them eat all day and never exercise (just like people).
Although the yellow male is "retired", I exercise them both daily. When hunting season arrives, both the dog and I are in shape and ready to go.
Although the yellow male is "retired", I exercise them both daily. When hunting season arrives, both the dog and I are in shape and ready to go.
Gatzby
Well-known member
You know I sorta miss Shadow he sure added some spice. We remain way to civil lately. He probably is a decent guy face to face. But wow that guy really hated me after I called his dogs IFC's (Internet Field Champions).
Steve
PS My young dog failed a hunt test last sunday The little guy needs a better handler. I totally screwed up and told him to sit after calling for the bird. That equals diqualification.
. He probably is a decent guy face to face. But wow that guy really hated me after I called his dogs IFC's (Internet Field Champions). Steve
PS My young dog failed a hunt test last sunday
The little guy needs a better handler. I totally screwed up and told him to sit after calling for the bird. That equals diqualification.
FCSpringer
Moderator
Cant beat a Lab!!
I could own this one, but thats it. And this is all he would have to do. LOL
I married into a family that was at the time racing sled dogs. Try and bring a fat lab to that family event. I have learned/heard/been schooled on more canine nutrition than most sane people should ever have to be exposed to.
That said, when I first started visiting the in-laws their bird-dog, a black lab named stormy, used to have a trick where she would tip over the compost barrel and roll it around with her front paws trying to get at the yuck inside. Funnier than heck. It is like labs are hard-wired to be the best bird dogs in the world, so God or nature decided to handicap them with this freakish appetite.
Keskam: My wife can hand Daisy a screwdriver (not the cocktail, that would spill ) and tell her to go find me and she will bring it to me. I have not tried beer but now... Heck Yeah!
I have learned/heard/been schooled on more canine nutrition than most sane people should ever have to be exposed to. That said, when I first started visiting the in-laws their bird-dog, a black lab named stormy, used to have a trick where she would tip over the compost barrel and roll it around with her front paws trying to get at the yuck inside. Funnier than heck. It is like labs are hard-wired to be the best bird dogs in the world, so God or nature decided to handicap them with this freakish appetite.
Keskam: My wife can hand Daisy a screwdriver (not the cocktail, that would spill
) and tell her to go find me and she will bring it to me. I have not tried beer but now... Heck Yeah!
FCSpringer
Moderator
My folks Lab does not have to eat much at all and looks like a Keg on dowels. Good thing she is a house mutt. Cause she would blow a knee trying any upland hunting. But she could float just fine, LOL. Spaying her I think made her fat. But it is just in the blood of so many poorly bred Labs these days. She came from a breeder in Iowa via my stupid Brother who gave up on her. Then became the local squirl dog at the folks. My last lab was plump but not as bad. She was fed as little as possible. Great water dog. But when I went duck hunting on a dry cattail river bottom last time. 11 ducks down before we sent the dogs out, and the Little springer brought all 11 in and Lab 0. I gave her away and that was that. I was a duck hunting nut. Around here all my Goose hunting was field or Pass by a field. So Little use for a dog there. Duck boats, are just fine for an ESS so they just stuck after that.
Try driving around Woodbury, Minn., where my folks live. Every family there has a cookie-cutter yellow lab that looks like a barrel and lives behind the most unnecessary invisible fence ever installed.
My uncle, on the other hand, had a springer (best breeding, top schools, no expense spared) that could not stand a day in the field hunting grouse or pheasants. She would be fragile, psychotic and hunted for herself. My uncle actually borrowed my lab, Daisy, when he would go pheasant hunting.
Daisy (aka the Bush Pig), being the consummate professional that she is, obliged and they filled their limit. I think the second time that happened my uncle was contemplating trying to paint Ginny black and return her instead of my beloved Pig.
FC, we all have horror stories (with dogs other than the ones we own )
PS: My uncle has a black lab girl on order as I write this.
My uncle, on the other hand, had a springer (best breeding, top schools, no expense spared) that could not stand a day in the field hunting grouse or pheasants. She would be fragile, psychotic and hunted for herself. My uncle actually borrowed my lab, Daisy, when he would go pheasant hunting.
Daisy (aka the Bush Pig), being the consummate professional that she is, obliged and they filled their limit. I think the second time that happened my uncle was contemplating trying to paint Ginny black and return her instead of my beloved Pig.
FC, we all have horror stories (with dogs other than the ones we own
)PS: My uncle has a black lab girl on order as I write this.
My goodness, Driggs, that is a handsome beast.
I had the pups out to a farm with some my relatives from out of town last fall and could not help thinking of those pen-raised birds and what they were in for against two labs who cut their teeth on scratching out wild birds in the over-hunted Minnesota public grounds. I actually considered saying the phrase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb2zIR2rvRQ
Coincidentally, the results were sort of similar to the film. Much mayhem ensued. Felt a little un-sportsmanlike, as I recall....
I had the pups out to a farm with some my relatives from out of town last fall and could not help thinking of those pen-raised birds and what they were in for against two labs who cut their teeth on scratching out wild birds in the over-hunted Minnesota public grounds. I actually considered saying the phrase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb2zIR2rvRQ
Coincidentally, the results were sort of similar to the film. Much mayhem ensued. Felt a little un-sportsmanlike, as I recall....
mnmthunting
Banned
I refuse to spoil a good hunting dog.
Cooper just back from the vet. Stitches from brab wire. He was a bit groggy.
Cooper just back from the vet. Stitches from brab wire. He was a bit groggy.
MNMT you've got a heart and a head for all sorts of stuff. Here I was thinking you were all ``Suck it up and fight through it'' kinda guy. I ever cross paths with you, I will buy all the beers -- or root beers or whatever. That goes for a bunch of the guys on this forum. (Even the ones with pointy-type dogs. Flushers owners too, if they can behave themselves...)
I will not buy dinner for labs, however. They can run up a tab...
I will not buy dinner for labs, however. They can run up a tab...