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cwalt

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12/15/2007 7:12 PM
> In my personal experience I can answer this. My youngest GSP would not > leave my side until she was about 10 months, I thought she had hip > dysplasia > or a bad heart and had her tested, she was fine. > > I can't remember when she exactly took off, but it was around that age, > she > now has a high level of sharpness, is always hunting. As we are amateurs > and rely on wild birds on the hills, maybe there weren't any birds for her > to scent, however, my other 4 GSP's had hunted from pups. > > Sonia Was your late bloomer a bit of a soft dog? The ones I don't think develop properly are the ones that have repeated encounters with birds in their first year and yet show no interest in them. The problem with trying to understand this late development is that there are few examples. In most gun dog circles a dog that shows little interest in game during the first six months is given away as a pet and there's no development thereafter. What we usually see is dogs that develop sharpness before 6 months, if they don't we don't see them again. This is a situation in which experimental techniques are useful when observational data show us nothing beyond a certain point. Cj

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