Comments for Glencuan Pointers http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com One man's passion for Pointers Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Saturday 5th December 2009 by glencuanpointers http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/saturday-5th-december-2009/#comment-1271 glencuanpointers Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:43:02 +0000 http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/?p=4629#comment-1271 Nearly ten months. Nearly ten months.

]]> Comment on Thursday 3rd December 2009 by glencuanpointers http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/thursday-3rd-december-2009/#comment-1270 glencuanpointers Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:42:31 +0000 http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/?p=4624#comment-1270 You are absolutely correct but that's somebody else's problem now. You are absolutely correct but that’s somebody else’s problem now.

]]> Comment on Saturday 5th December 2009 by Iain Grant http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/saturday-5th-december-2009/#comment-1269 Iain Grant Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:03:52 +0000 http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/?p=4629#comment-1269 How old is Lucky now, Des? How old is Lucky now, Des?

]]> Comment on Thursday 3rd December 2009 by Iain Grant http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/thursday-3rd-december-2009/#comment-1268 Iain Grant Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:58:13 +0000 http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/?p=4624#comment-1268 Our HPR brethern appear on occasions to walk the guns in a line behind the quartering dog be good for Jalad ! stop him backcasting :) Our HPR brethern appear on occasions to walk the guns in a line behind the quartering dog

be good for Jalad ! stop him backcasting :)

]]> Comment on Monday 30th November 2009 by glencuanpointers http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/monday-30th-november-2009/#comment-1265 glencuanpointers Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:32:09 +0000 http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/?p=4619#comment-1265 In the past I never had qualms about removing a sub standard dog from the kennel but there were a number of times that I kept a dog with promise that didn't fulfill it. It isn't a change of attitude towards the dogs more a realisation that with ever reducing training resourses the chances of completing the training of a dog are less and less and each extra dog you have in your kennel means less time per head when in fact they now need more time each. In the past I never had qualms about removing a sub standard dog from the kennel but there were a number of times that I kept a dog with promise that didn’t fulfill it. It isn’t a change of attitude towards the dogs more a realisation that with ever reducing training resourses the chances of completing the training of a dog are less and less and each extra dog you have in your kennel means less time per head when in fact they now need more time each.

]]> Comment on Monday 30th November 2009 by Iain Grant http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/monday-30th-november-2009/#comment-1264 Iain Grant Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:17:52 +0000 http://glencuanpointers.wordpress.com/?p=4619#comment-1264 "I am now quite capable of selling a good prospect if there’s more than my limit of six and I won’t blink at the thought of moving on a sub standard dog" Is this a change in your relationship with the dogs? do you still have personal favourites, or can you make purely performance based choices? - from previous writing i guess you're looking forward to seeing Basso again? cheers, Iain “I am now quite capable of selling a good prospect if there’s more than my limit of six and I won’t blink at the thought of moving on a sub standard dog”

Is this a change in your relationship with the dogs? do you still have personal favourites, or can you make purely performance based choices? – from previous writing i guess you’re looking forward to seeing Basso again?

cheers, Iain

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