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rospigan

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12/15/2007 9:51 AM
As you may understand I have little ideas of the US field trials and what happens in them. In Scandinavia a "big running" dog in the bare mountain terrain, average mountain terrain that is, covers in average 300 - 500 meters on both sides of the handler. All the way up to 800 meters is OK provided the handler is fit enough to follow (mostly Norwegians). If the dog understands to stay within sight most of the time then it is considered to be cooperative. If it after start vanishes and comes back hours later it is non cooperative. I believe that most often the reason for the young British birddog to be "non-cooperative" is too much inherited sharpness. It is not non cooperative because it does not care about the handler or the hunting pack in general but because the joy of running together with some boldness will make it quite intoxicated and kind of high from all the adrenalin rushing through its veins. Such a dog will, if given enough of experience and patience, calm down sooner or later and become a superb birddog, most likely the one-in-a-lifetime-dog. The "hard" dog is always hard, no matter the situation. Such a dog is inherently non-cooperative. We do not have many of them over here. 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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