Doggie stoke

[doughboyshredder]

[AKA]

Betty catching the bee

[TyWebb]

Pic of our 4 year old Golden, Gabbi....taking a walk down the driveway at the cabin last fall.

[L7]

Welcome to the family: Glacier Kennel's Run to the Hills, or just Steve around the house. Breed is a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon. He's 8 weeks old and we just picked him up yesterday.

SWWWEEEEETTT Always nice to see another Griff join the party. I'd have to check but I think my girl has some Glacier kennel in her lines too.

She's taken to tangling with coyotes of late. Got bit by one about a month ago before driving it off 3 times so she could come back to me. Went nose to nose with a big one again last night. No wounds or vet bills last night though. It's a habit she could break any time as far as I'm concerned.

[The Reverend Floater]

Nice L7! Do you hunt her? Any training tips/suggestions?

[lionelhutz]

Figured this is as good a place as any:

Could Be Buggy and I are rescuing a Lab (female in the 1-3 range). She's raised two from puppies. I've never had a dog save for taking care of her last older lab. Any good good books on training a rescue/dealing with a rescue dog?

[milton]

Figured this is as good a place as any:

Could Be Buggy and I are rescuing a Lab (female in the 1-3 range). She's raised two from puppies. I've never had a dog save for taking care of her last older lab. Any good good books on training a rescue/dealing with a rescue dog?

Good for you! How old is the pup, 1-3 months? We just adopted a rescue pup a couple days ago. It's my 2nd rescue puppy. No joking, Puppies for Dummies was a huge help the first time around. It covers just about about every topic and it's a good place to start.

Our dog was fixed and had a vet check-up the day before we picked her up. Do not expect a rescue dog to be in perfect health, ours is taking 2 meds for Giardia and Coccidia. Because of this, we need to be careful around other dogs and small children. Mostly just some extra TLC needed and lots of going outside.

With that here's Gussy...she's an 11 week old lab/shepherd mix.

[L7]

Nice L7! Do you hunt her? Any training tips/suggestions?

I don't hunt her but I am sure she would be very able maybe with some retrieval problems. (I grew up with hunting dogs and hunting). Early on I did some tracking with her and just got her on bird scent then one day out of the blue she locked up on point and held steady (partridge). She'll hold a solid point for several minutes and is always nose down hunting anything she can find. At a full run she'll turn hard and sudden with a scent and often track something to a point.

One griff owner/hunter I spoke with told me the dog taught him more about hunting then vice versa. I think there's a lot of truth in that, they are very natural hunters and you may be better to let them find their own groove then try to force to much out of them.

They are also often referred to as a bit 'soft' when it comes to training techniques and you'd want to go easy on some things like forced fetch. Versatiledogs.com has a lot of griff owners and lots of discussion of training. I haven't been there much lately since the petty arguments were getting out of hand kind of like here but lots of great advice.

I'm guessing you know lemonboy has done lots of training. I'm sure you know he'll need LOTS of exercise and one thing is mine (lots) don't do great in heat. If there is water around no problem. There are guys in texas that swear by them though so it can't be that bad. I shaved mine recently even though most say that's a no no.... I just had to help her stay cooler and cool faster. I call it a mullet cut, horse people call it a hunters cut.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

A few from the weekend:







I don't think I want to go in there...

[Big Snowballs]

I love this picture. It looks like Underdog.

[iamTRuTH]

River:

Hell yeah, My Vizsla Timber just turned 3 and our ARMY buddy's pup (watching her while he is deployed), these dogs are too much fun.

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Max.
Chocolate Lab. 8 weeks. Took him home 2 days ago.

[JimmyCarter]

I love this picture. It looks like Underdog.

That's awesome

Max.
Chocolate Lab. 8 weeks. Took him home 2 days ago.

Cute pup, congrats

[JimmyCarter]

This is anti-stoke from his perspective, but our guy rocking the cone of shame after his de-manning.

[Captain Anal]

that is a good looking dog

[Chainsaw_Willie]

[uglymoney]

[Woodlandclown]

Full moon billers

[Cross]

Here is Molly. She is a 8 year old Alaskan Malamute.

[liv2ski]

Here is a few of Shadow. The gentlest soul I have ever met. He is about 10 now, with a heart murmur that has really slowed him down.
Every day I have with him is a blessing.

[Tippster]

[Crock]

Dozer, our 3 year old english mastiff

[skideeppow]

SUP'ing with Mr Becks, my golden in our backyard on the Roaring Fork.

[JimmyCarter]

Dog + cone of shame + orange duck = 37 frames of this

[lionelhutz]

That's a nice wood cabinet you have there.