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09/25/2008 11:45 PM
> Jere Murray wrote: >>> I personally consider steadiness as the dog's behavior between the >>> pointing and the command to go on hunting or to retrieve the bird. >>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> And in the case the dog loses contact with the bird as a result of the bird's >> movement (on the ground) after you have moved past the dog - do you demand the >> dog >> remain behind you even then? >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > After I move past the dog it isn't pointing anymore So, point in your dogs is not a fixed action pattern or innate motor pattern? Rather - it is some trained behavior triggered by what? The act of certainly fixing the location of game would be the presumptive natural trigger. And then terminated by the fact of your passage by the dog? - certainly not an innate behavior. Jere

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