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Request for Spring Hunt Test Applications - Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The APLA hunt test committee is calling for spring hunt test applications The application's due date is January 20th. The application form is found under the EVENTS tab, then click on the HUNT TEST tab, and then down load the application form. Complete the form as fully as possible. Don't be concerned with your judges until applications are approved and date is set. Send applications to either Larry Kimble, 620-331-4066, 620-331-9952 fax, 1112 Birdie Drive, Independence, KS 67301, lkimble@cableone.net; or to Mike Bachkosky, 845-887-5719, PO Box 92, Callicoon, NY 12723, mike@rainbowsendflies.com.
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New Directors for 2009-2010 - Friday, November 14, 2008
Election ballots for the 3 open directors for 2009 through 2010 have been counted. Congratulations to Bruce Smiley, Troy Callanan, and Vic Rompa as our new directors. Everyone give then a warm welcome for volunteering their time.
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dmax
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| 03/24/2008 12:12 PM |
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I drove out to Mineola, TX this weekend to meet up with Paul K. to drop off my pup. He is going back to see Julie for some training. Not sure how long he is going to be there, but I am defenitly going to miss the little guy. He has a ton of energy, so hopefully Julie can reel it a bit.
While I was in Mineola I got a chance to see Trips sire (Dusty) run, that was something to see. He is FAST! Seemed like he handled his run without any problems. He is quite a dog.
Can't wait to here back from Julie after she has a couple days to work with him, just hope it's a good report.
He is 6 months now, I'll post an pic soon.
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| 03/24/2008 2:24 PM |
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| Our Sammie is with Julie now and by all reports doing fine. I know I sent her a "strong minded" pup, but Julie has seemed to have tackled that issue. I am sure she will do the same with your dog. I can't wait to go out and see the "little yellow bomber" in April and hopefully have her home in May, she is missed by all. |
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2Blackdogs!
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| 03/24/2008 2:30 PM |
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| Mine has been out there since new years eve. Been getting good reports. Will be sending in the application for CPR test in Co shortly. The 1st week or so is tough as far as missing them goes. Now it has been so long ya wonder if they will even remember ya. |
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| 03/24/2008 5:02 PM |
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| Our little guy has been out there for six months. When we finally do get around to getting him, he may not want to come back with us. For sure the first week is the hardest. I told Julie, it was one of the toughest things I have had to do in a long time putting him on that plane. He almost got kidnapped and brought back home, though I bet he is having alot more fun out there than these two at home are watching March madness with me. |
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dmax
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| 03/24/2008 5:06 PM |
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Blade - 2db - Coach,
What age did your pups go? How long are they going to be there? |
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Coach
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| 03/24/2008 5:28 PM |
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| He had just turned nine months old. As far as how long will he be there? |
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2Blackdogs!
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| 03/24/2008 6:47 PM |
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| Like I said- Dropped him off -literally on new years eve. He was 7.5 mo old at the time. So now been there a week shy of 3 months. |
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| 03/24/2008 8:04 PM |
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| One thing you all know, or I hope you do.....You picked one of the BEST trainers out there for pointing labs. Sit back and relax what you sent to Julie...and what you get back will be 2 different dogs...but what you get back will be beyond what you could ever have hoped for.. |
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| 03/25/2008 9:16 AM |
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Sammie was 8 months when she went out in the middle of January, and by all reports she should be home in May. This may change as her training goes because all dogs are different. We were looking for a hunting/family dog and I believe that is what we will get. We have all the right breeding and the right trainer, so the odds are with us. I, or should I say Julie, will run her in the test at the end of April. I may be our there at the same time for my training, but we haven't confirmed that yet.
As for missing the dog at home, Coach is right, putting her on the plane was tough, but leaving her there was tougher. I went along for the ride when Sammie first went out there and met Julie. It is always hard to make a deal with someone you have never met except by internet, email and phone. I got burned on another situation before, so it won't happen again. I was also prepared to take her right home if I didn't like what I saw, needless to say Sammie stayed there with Julie. Julie is a wonderful person and took the time to answer all of my questions and the ones my family had for her, probably the same ones we asked before but she was very patient with me. Don't tell her I said all these nice things it may ruin the image of a tough Jersey guy. All in all the, Sammie is missed daily and I am constantly being asked when is the dog coming home, and the answer I can give is when she is ready, not the answer my kids and wife want to hear, but it is what is best for the dog. |
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Doc_E
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| 03/25/2008 9:32 AM |
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So who is this "Julie" person? Does she know anything about training dogs?
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dmax
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| 03/25/2008 9:42 AM |
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| That's a good question... Someone told me she wrote a book, I have not verified that yet. |
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2Blackdogs!
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| 03/25/2008 4:36 PM |
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Not sure who actually wrote the book-but she did in fact model for the pics in it.  Of course we better be careful what we say cuz she does have possesion of all of our "turkey butt goober heads" at the moment.  |
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| 03/27/2008 12:31 PM |
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| Seems I need to check on here more often! I tried to get some pictures on here but it said they were too big, so obviously I don't know what I'm doing with this one. I was going to put one of Sammie pointing beautifully until she lunged in to a family of field mice. I can't tell owners things like that, so it's just as well. I have a blurry set of pictures taken with my cell phone, which doesn't work when I'm in the field anyway, of 2BD's dog (shouldn't it be 3BD's now?) pointing so many times I quit taking pictures and got mad because he was screwing it up for the other dogs. There I was kind of mad because this dog was finding birds I needed other dogs to find - that's not a good reason, though he has also pointed field mice, just not recently...
Then there's the picture I got of Champ pointing a bird he was staring in the eye, one of those curled I-really-want-to-launch shots I don't like owners to see either. Too much pressure here guys, now these dogs are supposed to come out doing something and if I showed ALL the stuff, we would be laughing so hard I'd have no credibility whatsoever, even if I didn't write the book but did throw all the birds in it. And, to top it off yesterday the farmer leasing the western field burned his ditches and in doing so, burned the whole field, the higher grass field, my trees, my Johnny house filled with birds, our upper dry ponds, the upper grass field and almost got to the southern kennel and yards.
Fortunately all buildings and dogs and people are okay. The farmer across the river died trying to race the fire he started rushing his tractor through the ditch and having it turn over and pin him beneath. Talk about the worst of days. I went out and visited, well mourned actually, the now desolate spot where my Johnny house had been, nothing but some wire and pans left. I had those little guys working so well, so perfect for young dogs, always returning save those the hawks got. Five 100 year old cottonwoods are going to fall over here when they finally quit burning and there won't be much for any birds to hid beneath.
So yellow dog owners, new and old, and 3BD and everybody else, no more field mice hunting nearby for us, we'll have to go closer to the river and other places. We are fortunate all of us are safe and sound, and Kassidy was helping the firefighters the whole time, may have a new career in mind now except she really stunk when she came in. Dogs never were in danger but they wondered what all the smoke was about. I just can't get over my quail and their sad ending... I hate stuff like that.
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Trout Bum
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| 03/27/2008 1:22 PM |
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| Wow that's awful Julie. I'm sorry to hear the news, I'm sure you're sick about all of it. |
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2Blackdogs!
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| 03/27/2008 1:26 PM |
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| OMG Julie- this is terrible. Sounds like it got stopped just in time! And the farmer died! Oh My. This is very sad. |
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dmax
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| 03/27/2008 1:36 PM |
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| Sorry to hear the news, hope everything is ok going forward. |
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| 03/27/2008 2:02 PM |
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Sorry to hear the news...that burning can be extremely dangerous. I burned my ditches a couple of weeks ago and I don't think I ever stopped stressing out! Sorry to hear someone died in the process of putting one out 
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| 03/27/2008 3:33 PM |
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| Wow that is tragic. Sorry to hear it. |
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| 03/27/2008 7:51 PM |
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| Our prayers go out to the farmer and his family. |
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hooligan
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| 03/27/2008 9:36 PM |
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| Wow. Life lost is always a tragedy. The barren wasteland that a fire leaves behind is hard to comprehend if you haven't seen it. Life will spring anew from the ashes, though-it's nature's way. |
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