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| 08/11/2007 12:05 PM |
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We have started to go through the checklist for the
hunting season that starts soon. That is; Maud has, I will have the operation
august 22 and will be out of business for a week or two. I will probably stay in
Uppsala (Sweden) for one week and then they will fly me with a medical
helicopter to my "own" hospital on the Aland islands for a few days further
recovery. I do not intend to stay there for long, a couple of days perhaps, and
then I am a free man again. I feel that I am very fit, despite of the disease,
and cant see why they should hold me for longer than to see that the operation
was successful.
For my part the only check I have to do right now
is to see if the .243W shoots straight, the roe-deer season starts august 16 and
with some luck I could kill a buck before the operation.
Maud started by exciting the ignition system
of the dogs, that has hibernated in the sleep-mode during the summer, with
a couple of hours training on large grain fields some 90 minutes drive from us.
Even the 13 years old Foxy ignited well and made a fantastic search, selecting
the ground to search through with the experience of an old gundog. Of course she
did not gallop with the grace and style of a younger dog but with the same
determination and with a lot more wisdom.
Briz also worked well but more straight from the
school-book, like a pointer. Next step is to go and show them to a shooting
estate owner that want to see them handling birds. If they are good enough Maud
will work as a dog handler on the commercial shoots later this autumn. Lets hope
the guns know the difference between a dog and a
partridge/pheasant.....
A little bit closer in time, august 20, Maud will
go north as a dog handler/gun on some willow grouse research shoot. They will
search some specified areas together with some scientists and some birds will be
shot but Maud and her friend Margaret with IS:ers are not allowed to eat them
but they will be sent to some laboratory and will be picked to pieces
there.
The grouse season officially opens august 25 and I
guess Maud will stay in the mountains for some while. Maybe we can meet again in
Sweden around sept. 1:st or something.
We have also filled our two pens with good, young
partridge and will put out them later in the autumn. That way we will have
something to play with around our village also.
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel
"Ask not what your dog
can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your dog."
www.rospigan.net
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robclayau
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| 08/12/2007 6:35 AM |
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Hi Torsti,
All the best with the operation. Your plans for the upcoming season
sound great and I wish you every success. The hunting season here is
closed, but I'm still out training on wild birds and will continue to
do so until the warm weather brings the snakes out. Had a great time
last weekend, worked hard running Stubble Quail on the Saturday (all
singles or pairs), man these birds were running, really testing the
dogs roading abilities. Then tight sitting Brown Quail on Sunday. The
Browns were all in coveys of 8-10 birds, buried under thick cover and
sat so tight they practically "flushed up my jumper". Very interesting
to work the dogs in such different types of cover (stubble = native
grasslands and browns = a semi-dry swamp, lots of thick reedy cover)
and different birds.
Conditions have generally been hard in Oz this year, 10 years of
drought and the livestock have eaten away much of the cover quail
depend upon. However I've been working hard to find birds and have had
a very good year, we've found over 1,000 wild birds and the two dogs
have each had +100 productive points. At the beginning of the season
they had worked only a few birds and were behind where I wanted them to
be, I am very pleased with the progress they've made this season. They
are now experienced bird-dogs, finding, pointing, backing etc. There is
a bit of polish to be added to their retrieving over the summer, then
they will be really fine dogs. We also had a small win at a trial, it
was an Open trial (ie not restricted to novice etc) and we won best
novice dog (over half the field were novice dogs) so that was pleasing,
we were quite lucky to win but I guess you need some luck every now and
then.
Cheers,
Rob
Maud & Torsti wrote:
We have started to go through the
checklist for the hunting season that starts soon. That is; Maud has, I
will have the operation august 22 and will be out of business for a
week or two. I will probably stay in Uppsala (Sweden) for one week and
then they will fly me with a medical helicopter to my "own" hospital on
the Aland islands for a few days further recovery. I do not intend to
stay there for long, a couple of days perhaps, and then I am a free man
again. I feel that I am very fit, despite of the disease, and cant see
why they should hold me for longer than to see that the operation was
successful.
For my part the only check I have to
do right now is to see if the .243W shoots straight, the roe-deer
season starts august 16 and with some luck I could kill a buck before
the operation.
Maud started by exciting the
ignition system of the dogs, that has hibernated in the sleep-mode
during the summer, with a couple of hours training on large grain
fields some 90 minutes drive from us. Even the 13 years old Foxy
ignited well and made a fantastic search, selecting the ground to
search through with the experience of an old gundog. Of course she did
not gallop with the grace and style of a younger dog but with the same
determination and with a lot more wisdom.
Briz also worked well but more
straight from the school-book, like a pointer. Next step is to go and
show them to a shooting estate owner that want to see them handling
birds. If they are good enough Maud will work as a dog handler on the
commercial shoots later this autumn. Lets hope the guns know the
difference between a dog and a partridge/pheasant.....
A little bit closer in time, august
20, Maud will go north as a dog handler/gun on some willow grouse
research shoot. They will search some specified areas together with
some scientists and some birds will be shot but Maud and her friend
Margaret with IS:ers are not allowed to eat them but they will be sent
to some laboratory and will be picked to pieces there.
The grouse season officially opens
august 25 and I guess Maud will stay in the mountains for some while.
Maybe we can meet again in Sweden around sept. 1:st or something.
We have also filled our two pens
with good, young partridge and will put out them later in the autumn.
That way we will have something to play with around our village also.
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel
"Ask not what your dog can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your dog."
www.rospigan.net
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lameduck
SH
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| 08/12/2007 8:08 AM |
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:56
AM
Subject: Re: [working-gundog]
Ignition!
Where is Oz?
Ron
Conditions have generally been
hard in Oz this year, 10 years of drought and the livestock have eaten away
much of the cover quail depend upon. However I've been working hard to find
birds and have had a very good year, we've found over 1,000 wild birds and the
two dogs have each had +100 productive points. At the beginning of the season
they had worked only a few birds and were behind where I wanted them to be, I
am very pleased with the progress they've made this season. They are now
experienced bird-dogs, finding, pointing, backing etc. There is a bit of
polish to be added to their retrieving over the summer, then they will be
really fine dogs. We also had a small win at a trial, it was an Open trial (ie
not restricted to novice etc) and we won best novice dog (over half the field
were novice dogs) so that was pleasing, we were quite lucky to win but I guess
you need some luck every now and then.
Cheers,
Rob
Maud &
Torsti wrote:
We have started to go through the checklist for
the hunting season that starts soon. That is; Maud has, I will have the
operation august 22 and will be out of business for a week or two. I will
probably stay in Uppsala (Sweden) for one week and then they will fly me
with a medical helicopter to my "own" hospital on the Aland islands for a
few days further recovery. I do not intend to stay there for long, a couple
of days perhaps, and then I am a free man again. I feel that I am very fit,
despite of the disease, and cant see why they should hold me for longer than
to see that the operation was successful.
For my part the only check I have to do right
now is to see if the .243W shoots straight, the roe-deer season starts
august 16 and with some luck I could kill a buck before the
operation.
Maud started by exciting the ignition
system of the dogs, that has hibernated in the sleep-mode during the summer,
with a couple of hours training on large grain fields some 90 minutes
drive from us. Even the 13 years old Foxy ignited well and made a fantastic
search, selecting the ground to search through with the experience of an old
gundog. Of course she did not gallop with the grace and style of a younger
dog but with the same determination and with a lot more wisdom.
Briz also worked well but more straight from
the school-book, like a pointer. Next step is to go and show them to a
shooting estate owner that want to see them handling birds. If they are good
enough Maud will work as a dog handler on the commercial shoots later this
autumn. Lets hope the guns know the difference between a dog and a
partridge/pheasant.....
A little bit closer in time, august 20, Maud
will go north as a dog handler/gun on some willow grouse research shoot.
They will search some specified areas together with some scientists and some
birds will be shot but Maud and her friend Margaret with IS:ers are not
allowed to eat them but they will be sent to some laboratory and will be
picked to pieces there.
The grouse season officially opens august 25
and I guess Maud will stay in the mountains for some while. Maybe we can
meet again in Sweden around sept. 1:st or something.
We have also filled our two pens with good,
young partridge and will put out them later in the autumn. That way we will
have something to play with around our village also.
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel
"Ask not what your
dog can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your dog."
www.rospigan.net
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rospigan
MH
Posts:372
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| 08/12/2007 11:53 AM |
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>> Where is Oz?
Ron>>
Good question Ron! I know it means Australia and New Zeeland but what does
it actually mean? O(z)ceania? that should be the geografical name of the
Australian continent with surrounding Pacific islands????
There also was this opera, "The wizard from OZ"........and
a comic-strip with the same name.
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel
"Ask not what your dog
can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your dog."
www.rospigan.net
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rospigan
MH
Posts:372
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| 08/12/2007 11:55 AM |
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>>Conditions have generally been hard in Oz this year, 10 years of
drought and the livestock have eaten away much of the cover quail depend upon.
However I've been working hard to find birds and have had a very good year,
we've found over 1,000 wild birds and the two dogs have each had +100 productive
points. At the beginning of the season they had worked only a few birds and were
behind where I wanted them to be, I am very pleased with the progress they've
made this season. They are now experienced bird-dogs, finding, pointing, backing
etc. There is a bit of polish to be added to their retrieving over the summer,
then they will be really fine dogs. We also had a small win at a trial, it was
an Open trial (ie not restricted to novice etc) and we won best novice dog (over
half the field were novice dogs) so that was pleasing, we were quite lucky to
win but I guess you need some luck every now and
then.
Cheers,
Rob>>
Congratulationes to the trial win!
From our point of view 200 productive findings is
not bad at all. What I do not understand is that you and the wild game survive
despite of the long drought. We get more or less desperate if we have drought
for a month or two but then again I use to say that we live in a protected
workshop compared to many other parts of the world.
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel "Ask not what your dog can do for you. Ask
what you can do for your dog." www.rospigan.net |
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robclayau
JH
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| 08/13/2007 7:42 AM |
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To me Oz means Australia only (not New Zealand). Oceania or South
Pacific or DownUnder would be the terms I would use to refer to
Australia, New Zealand and surrounding islands.
Australians love rhyming slang and the love truncating words to their
shortest possible length. Hence Aussie sounds like Ozzie and where do
Ozzies live, Oz.
Rob
Maud & Torsti wrote:
>> Where is Oz?
Ron>>
Good question Ron! I know it means Australia and New Zeeland but
what does it actually mean? O(z)ceania? that should be the geografical
name of the Australian continent with surrounding Pacific islands????
There also was this opera, "The wizard from OZ"........and
a comic-strip with the same name.
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel
"Ask not what your dog can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your dog."
www.rospigan.net
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robclayau
JH
Posts:36
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| 08/13/2007 7:42 AM |
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The native animals have amazing adaptations to survive the dry
conditions, many are able to regulate reproductive cycles and will only
give birth in good years. Many of the birds, including ducks and quail
are very nomadic. They have the ability to sense when there have been
good rains hundreds of kilometres away, and they will fly there to take
advantage of the good conditions. Our stubble quail are known to travel
huge distances, they migrate mostly by night, they are small birds
almost impossible to find without a dog and too small to attach a
satellite tracking collar to. Hence a great deal of their life is still
a mystery to us.
Rob
Maud & Torsti wrote:
Congratulationes to the trial win!
From our point of view 200
productive findings is not bad at all. What I do not understand is that
you and the wild game survive despite of the long drought. We get more
or less desperate if we have drought for a month or two but then again
I use to say that we live in a protected workshop compared to many
other parts of the world.
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel
"Ask not what your dog can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your dog."
www.rospigan.net
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rospigan
MH
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| 08/14/2007 9:00 AM |
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>>Australians love rhyming slang and the love truncating words to
their shortest possible length. Hence Aussie sounds like Ozzie and where do
Ozzies live, Oz.
Rob>>
No way I could have derived that by my own
intellectual power...or any other power for that matter!
Anyway, now we all know, thanks!
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel "Ask not what your dog can do for you. Ask
what you can do for your dog." www.rospigan.net |
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