Fun BSU Broncos news article thought I would post.
Posted on 10/26/2010 10:35:08 PM PDT by Domandred
New dog, old trick.
Boise State University has brought back a fan favorite from the early 1990s: the football tee-retrieving dog.
This year, Zamzows approached the university about sponsoring a new dog to retrieve the tees. BSU officials were all for it, as they were hoping to reinstitute the practice.
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Fun BSU Broncos news article thought I would post.
Air Bud?
Darling story! Thanks for Posting. Appropriate for the Doggie Ping List?
In a game (26 sec.) YouTube - Boise State Kickoff Dog
Interview with trainer during practice (c. 3:00 minutes) KTVB.com - Meet Cecil, the football tee retrieving dog
We need a tee retrieving dog for the DENVER Broncos...as a PLAYER!
He’s cute!
One would think there might be some TV coverage of this fun little activity...but nooooo, we have to be bombarded with the latest stoopid commercial.
I’ve watched a lot of BSU games and did not know about this.
Very
Any good retriever will get this excited over a big retrieve. My 11 year old Lab got to be the Test Dog (dry run of setup) for a Hunt Test last weekend, although she's been retired from testing. She knows perfectly well how to go to the line off leash, but she got SO excited when she saw that they were going to shoot a live flyer that I put a length of parachute cord through her collar (as permitted in Junior) just in case. She was whining and bouncing (although she did not break). They never lose that desire.
And my young dog got her first Junior pass too, so it was a Good Day.
Yea I have the same feeling about "hybrid" breeds. Whats worse is when they sell them for more than the original breeds are worth. Just a way for people to make money on mutts imo.
Anybody who's done any breeding (I haven't bred dogs but I bred and showed Siamese cats for years) knows that when you cross two very dissimilar types, even within a breed, the offspring have a lot of variation and don't breed true.
Example: my oldest Lab is the offspring of an extreme show type sire and an extreme field type dam. Her full brother and she look nothing alike at all from the point of view of type, though we think we can see it around their eyes.
Your established breeds have been selected for years to breed true to type. Rather than this sort of "designer dog" nonsense, I would rather see people take an established breed and trend it to the type they want.
Example: some friends of mine have bred Standard Poodles that actually do hunting retriever work pretty darned well. They just had the first litter EVER that is the offspring of two HRCHS (Hunting Retriever Champions). Louter Creek Hunting Poodles
Standard Poodles (Pudels) were originally developed in Germany as hunting/retrieving dogs and are still used for that purpose. I had a friend who always used one for hunting here in Wisconsin. That dog has since died, and he is training a new one for hunting. The whole “show clip” was developed to protect the poodle from injury during water retrieves.
The poodle was shaved in the rear to “lighten” his weight and to keep him from sinking when his coat became waterlogged. He was left with his “jacket” over his heart and lungs for warmth — same with the little knots of fur on his hips over his kidneys. The pouf on his tail was to let the hunter know where he was when he dove under the water to bring up the game. The anklets were to protect his joints from the cold.
I don’t know whe a “pudelpointer” is any better, except it looks like you don’t have to pay for expensive grooming and don’t have to worry as much about burrs in the fur in upland game hunting.. Both the poodle and the pointer are excellent hunting breeds.
http://lakelandhuntingpoodles.com/
I will admit you might get some funny looks and snarky comments if you show up in the field with a poodle
Congrats on your winning pups......I have a 14 yo lab, aren't labs wonderful?
“I went to the story, and this is a Standard Poodle/Pointer cross. Boy is that weird! Why do people feel they have to mess up perfectly good gun dog/ retriever breeds?”
It looks like a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, to me. Or maybe more a German Wirehaired Pointer.
We don’t know for sure if this dog is really a mutt, or if so, if it was actually deliberately bred. Could be an accident, as many are.
Idiotic idea, crossing a water dog breed with an upland bird dog . . . . almost as stupid as breeding "Silver Labs" by crossing Weimaraners into Black Labs. Labs are silly enough without adding the supremely silly Weims to the mix. Friend of mine is a pro trainer and got one of them to train -- sent him back. Doggone dog would NOT retrieve. Wouldn't quarter or point, either.
Sorry, I didn’t want to bother reading...!
Anyway, Poodles were originally mainly retrieving type dogs.
Our friends have spent YEARS picking the best-retrieving poodles to get a couple of dogs that can pass a hunt test. It wasn't easy!
Indeed.
But the bottom line here - this dog is doing the job.
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