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This statement isn't correct. True MOST vibrating collars have a shock button as well but I know of a deaf English setter that was trained very successfully using a vibrating collar. It was an old...

The not responding to commands is something that goes with the age/territory, what would worry me is the barking. Barking is also a phase thing BUT if you let it take hold you will be in a world of...

They don't, fly all that fast. Over heather they are a relatively easy mark but they have a capacity to get behind any available protection and surprisingly a single ash plant can deflect a very high...

I can understand where this is comming from but I have found that with both grouse and pheasants the older cocks take up more good territory but are less fertile than the younger birds so old cocks...

My personal shooting wouldn't amount to more than fifty head of game each year. I eat, or strive to have eaten by somebody, every game bird that I shoot and I'm successful in this other than the odd...

Not really a dog training video, much more for the falconry enthusiast but one of the most inspirational dog videos I ever watched, that is if you can ignore the BBC English plummy narrator. Imagine...

I'm lucky in that in the forty odd years I've been keeping dogs I have had very few barkers and those I did have were soon gone. Barking in the kennel, as opposed to yelping as a pup, is a very bad...

Wish the UKKW operated like that. My ten year old son beat the shit out of me in the kumete when I was going for my green.

The impact, or otherwise, that a dog has on a breeding programme is to a large degree dependent on the state of the breed when that dog comes into the gene pool. English setters in Ireland, were in a...

The Irish kennel Club only work on a three genreation pedigree when registering.

I'm not sure where the foundation for the comment that Odin was less of a success comes from. Johnny decided that...

El B,
I don't know Failte's pedigree but I presume there's imported blood in there just one generation back so the retrieving should be in there to some degree already.

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El B,
Is one of those dogs your Gortinreagh dog. Gerald made up another, Excel, on Saturday. Best I could do was third but at least that's me qualified for opens now.

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My Irish Water Spaniel was put to sleep because a grass seed had got into her coat. When I shaved her side it was a mess. In theory only south east England has the sort of grass that does this damage...

The black pointer is Pookie (what an awful name for a dog) and is registered with the KC as "Mountain Ranger Girl". She was bred by Colin Taylor and the sire was Glencuan Party and the bitch Ling...

I have one of them, Rotherfalke Sena, he's now seven months old and coming on brilliantly. I have more or less completed his retrieving training and am about to start on serious hunting with him....

Twenty seven inches at the shoulder,
You'll see the sun shine off his back.
He has won a Slieveanorra thrice,
Kilakee and Scotstown's track.
His father came form far Brazil and his mother was...

At 18 months old the chances are that the dog has yet to prove itself and on that basis you are unlikely to have people asking you to use your dog. If you are that keen to breed from him you may well...

The problem with lighter tweeds is that they are no less abrasive than their heavier versions and literally "sand" themselves to threads. Particularly in the groin area.("ball bag area" in Norn Iron...

There's tweed and then there TWEED. My own preference is for No 624 from the now defunct Hunters of Brora though Haggarts of Aberfeldy do some nice stuff as well and if you want a top class dress...

Most people with sound knees can afford to up their workload without any comeback. Once you damage a joint it's ability to perform is compromised and you need to pay more attention to the details of...

Hugh's mum was in hospital recently and between that and being the secretary of a club that had an event in Connaught he hasn't been up to every event.

Ulster Gundog League – Open – Pointer and Setter – Saturday 12th October 2013.

Ned Butler, the Pointer & Setter Section Secretary of The Ulster Gundog League organised an Open Stake for Pointers...

The Ulster Gundog League – Open – Pointer and Setter – Sunday 29th September 2013

The Ulster Gundog League held an Open Stake for Pointers and Setters on The Point Beat of The Hill Farm at...

The Northern Ireland Pointer Club – Open – Pointer & Setter – 28th September 2013

The Northern Ireland Pointer Club held an Open Stake for Pointers and Setters on Craig’s Moss Glarryford with the...

Our group of competitors is shrinking, and quite quickly too. There has only been one new competitor over the last couple of years. I would say the average age is 45 +.
To run a puppy trial we must...