Recent content by Haydn

My apologies you have taken what I said as criticism of you or your dogs. At no point did I suggest you stay at home with them. I was not trying to excuse or condone the actions of the collie or its owner. All I was trying to say was not all owners have or even train to your level of control and...

I have thought long and hard before replying to this thread, I hope you don't think I'm being over critical or harsh, I'm just (hopefully) being realistic. You took your dogs for a walk in a public place where ordinary owners with their pet dogs walk, I assume your dogs were off their leads...

Yes Vizsla's are a hunt, point, retrieve (HPR) breed of hunting dog. They were bred to quarter the field seeking game, when they find it they point it allowing the hunters to get into position for a shot, the game is flushed and if shot, the dog would be sent to retrieve it. Some dogs will...

Fynn is progressing in the gundog training. Yesterday and today there was a pheasant in some setaside land behind a fence, Fynn held a solid point- OK I know the fence probably stopped him chasing it:D but it was a good well held point (I had time to take my phone out of my pocket a snap the...

What a super story and well done your dogs.

Fynn's and my 'homework' from the trainer is to increase the distance Fynn will run in a straight line for a blind retrieve. We were over the fields and Fynn had done a couple of 100ish yard blind retrieves with a dummy with pheasant wings attached (to give it a stronger smell). There was a...

Is 'e bovvered:D

Last year Fynn our Vizsla was a little nervous at first and would hide behind our legs. So when a bang went off we made nothing of it, we just carried on what we were doing and I think Fynn picked up on that, after a few days he ignored the bangs. This year with the gundog training hopefully he...

To balance this thread- Fynn (my Vizsla) and I were training with the local HPR club on Sunday and Fynn was a nightmare! When we met and were walking to the training area he was pulling, trying to greet the other dogs, just wouldn't walk properly on the lead. While waiting for his turn he...

I know dogs can catch it but how contagious is it. We have a fox with very bad mange visiting the garden and wondered if I need to take any extra precautions.

What a stunning dog- What's the food bill like.

I very rarely get annoyed but reading that article made me want to commit murder. I realise she is doing nothing illegal but the RSPCA should be paying her a visit and the kennel club should be circulating her name to all their registered breeders, I know it won't stop her but it may slow her...

Isn't it illegal to release non-native species without a licence (I realise in theory you are hoping they will return home) I seem to have read recently about a quail farmer who is breeding (I think) Japanese quail and has to keep them secure to stop accidental introduction into the UK.

Alec this the problem with bulletin boards, you have to be clear (the written word is so clumsy:)) and you need to be fairly brief (no-one reads 'War and Peace') so inevitably my question is going to leave out loads of relevant stuff, which the poster (me) assumes the replier (you) should be...

Dry rot- thanks for the full reply, I am learning that Fynn is cleverer than me, his nose tells him whether it's worth bothering running about chasing shadows:D The trouble is for our grade 3 gundog award he has to go out and hunt an (empty) field and he just can't see the point of it, hence...