Working a pointer and retriever together

A great combo. Getting Daisy out for her 2nd workout with birds. She is doing a great job and loves hunting with Kota.

Nice looking dogs. Makes me wish fall was here, and its hardly even spring yet!

Nice looking dogs Don! I took my Daisy (GSP) out for a walk in the CRP last weekend. Darned if she didn’t start pointing birds. Probably won’t happen again until September; but she didn’t appear to be rusty at all.

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COngrats on getting some work in Don! Looks like fun. DD, I have seen another pointer and lab work well together.

Only about 152 more days!

Daisy has good instinct and loves live birds. A little retrieving work, a little steadying and we are off to a great start. can’t wait to get these two back in the field.

On a side note, Kota did enjoy the cooler weather today .

I haven’t done it but that is because I have always ran pointers and while they were steady to wing/shot/kill the flushers could NOT be stopped from busting in on a dog on point. Not good training IMHO to have a dog you are trying to staunch up and it has another dog rip it’s birds. I feel the same way about having a pointing dog that won’t back hunting with dogs that would be set back in their training by having birds ripped in front of them.
Now I’ve competed against handlers from down south that work on plantations and they had spaniels & labs they used as retievers for after the shot.
Just my opinion as a retired field trialer that had 25 yrs of experiance & winning when I hung it up in ’98.
BTW.I hunted my trial dogs on foot. Collared & belled them & had great times.

not a problem to have the flushers honor the point and honor the retrieve. I am working the pointer seperate at first. When hunting together it is mostly quartering. If she does point the lab honors. There is no birds being ripped from in front of her.

Great.
Sounds like you are doing a good job. I’m impressed with the dedication and finess that takes.

Thanks for pointing that out though. that is one of the worst things to happen to a young dog.

Nothing worse than a pointing dog that thinks that it is okay to be a flusher. I am a big believer in only shooting birds that are pointed & I ‘ve seen a fair amount of dogs that the owners are able to staunch up doing that. It is a hard thing to do; lay off a wild flush or even worse a bird that the dog rips in front of you.