I’m thinking of booking one of the weekends for Remi and initially thought I’d like to do one of the Yorkshire weekends. On reflection Newmarket is a lot nearer and I wondered if, given where I live, training him on a grouse moor would be a little like giving sea angling lessons to a young boy who lives near a canal in Birmingham. Does that make sense? _________________ If a job's worth doing, it's worth paying somebody else to do it properly
Your choice obviously but another question you may want to ask yourself is how many times will I get a chance to work Remi on a species like this and on ground like this. But then again you may want to aks why should I freeze my bits of on a windswept moor complete with horizontal rain (or snow, hail, etc) for two days when I could go out for one day and be home again that night.
It may be the masochist in me but watching various HPRs, pointers and setters working as they were meant to work is a joy I'm glad I didn't miss _________________ My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.
Your choice obviously but another question you may want to ask yourself is how many times will I get a chance to work Remi on a species like this and on ground like this.
That was what I meant by using the sea fishing analogy.
johnhod wrote:
It may be the masochist in me but watching various HPRs, pointers and setters working as they were meant to work is a joy I'm glad I didn't miss
I’m sad to say that I’ve only ever seen one pointer and setter meet of some description, which was a bit of a flop. There was nothing but stubble in the field and ,as far as I remember, no birds were found while I was there. There was a grass verge which was separated from the field by a hedge. As I left I saw 10 or 15 pheasant on this verge, some of which appeared to be looking through the hedge as if to see if the dogs were still there . I also remember being surprised by the difference between the dogs there and those I’d seen kept as pets or shown. Especially the predominantly white setter with black and tan face markings _________________ If a job's worth doing, it's worth paying somebody else to do it properly
That was what I meant by using the sea fishing analogy
I was trying (badly) to say that while pheasant and partridge is usually reasonably easy to access the chance to work on grouse is more difficult to access and you may want to take the opportunity to do so, that was why I did it anyway _________________ My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.
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. I also remember being surprised by the difference between the dogs there and those I’d seen kept as pets or shown. Especially the predominantly white setter with black and tan face markings 