A lovely English setter, spledid dog work, traditional SxS game gun, and one of the best beards I've seen in many a year. A wonderful thing too (to my Scots Gaelic ears) is to hear Irish spoken in your videos. All of my English setters have been easy to train and were steady to point naturally. I am not a professional dog trainer and easily taught them 'come here', 'sit' (drop flat to the ground), 'hie-on' (get-on and hunt) in Gaelic, and hand/arm directional signals, easily and all before they were a year old. I dearly love this breed of bird dog. Mòran taing agus slaintè mhor!
Really enjoyed the video! As Im sure you're well aware of the difference in a American English Setter and European English setters. It's was fun watching what I'll just call a traditional Setter point verses what Im used to seeing on this side of the pond. I have respect for and can appreciate both. I own American Brittanys but have hunted behind some French Brittanys also. I think Americans just hunt bigger and more open fields so we have developed bigger running dogs that stand tall so we can see them from 500 yards away. LOL. Have you ever hunted the US I bet ya would like it. You should bring a dog and a Fly Rod and hit Montana. Have fun and happy hunting!
When he's gone he's gone 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I truly enjoyed the end of this video from 22 minutes onwards . It's a true true saying trust your dog if they wrong they wrong but putting your judgement over there's gives u a kick in the arse when they are right hahahaha great dog work she's after coming on a awhful lot I watched her from the very first video keep up the good work great vid put a smile on my face today 😂😂👍
Really enjoyed that. Great dog work; you've A good one the. And great to see someone else missing for a change! Like most places I'd say that country had better days from a habitat perspective.
Yes Turlough,I have a good one indeed in Lady,the loss of habitat is truly shocking around here,intensive agriculture has seen the removal of vast amounts of our hedgerows and the removal of cover and indeed the filling in of ponds,it seems that no consideration is given to wildlife habitat,very sad indeed.
The most important thing an English Setter does is scent and point. Humans cant. Once the bird is shot, they find it, another thing humans cant do easily. As long as the setter is seen with the bird in its mouth, youre in business. If the viewers want a finished dog, well, lots of work. My experience w ES is, excellent in trailing and thes pointing. Beyond that, let them learn by going. As someone said, a gentle hand. Let them do what theyre expert in, point. Ive had 8 and working on # 9.
My experience has been that setters don’t really like to retrieve, partic with bigger birds (eg pheasants). Those that don’t can be trained to/forced to, but not willingly. They will all find and hold downed game. My personal preference with setters is to let them decide if they want to retrieve or not. Setters take a gentle hand to reach their best, and a smart hunter lets the dog train them a bit.
Great to see lady working was wondering how see was getting on .Very unusal to see an English setter lying down when setting only ever seen this with droppers .She will only get better .
Hi there, We have adopted a working english setter from spain who has been worked in the past. he is 3 but his recall is aweful. any tips on how to retrain recall?
Difficult to teach an old dog new tricks,however if he was trained to recall when younger you may be able to retrain him.Take him to a confined area and recall,if he doesn't respond run to him and drag him back to where you called him from,repeat until he recalls.Hope this helps.
James, I know this is after the fact, but if recall is still an issue, try this: using a vibrating collar, start in close proximity and activate the collar until the dog is at your side (use your voice command). It will be confusing at first for the dog, but it is very effective. Maintain the vibration until the dog is firmly by your side and in your control. I usually see results within a week. Hope this helps. I switch to tone for recall and use this when hunting spooky birds (think pressured pheasant) to avoid talking.
Will she walk to heel? My Llewellyn was trained to walk to heel. One day I was walking on the road and looked around to see where was my dog. There he was, locked on a point and 40 yards behind. Up on the ditch with me and bagged a nice cock pheasant that broke down the field when I shushed in the dog. I would not push retrieving a bird from out in the open either. Pick those yourself. Give her the harder ones if you can.Also in my humble opinion snipe, and pigeon in particular are loose feathered birds,.. Woodcock to a lesser degree. I would be careful to always remove loose feathers from her mouth on the odd occasion that you let retrieve these. But as you know the dog has way more brains they we give them credit for and all these things will come to her naturally. Wig just a minimum direction.
A lovely English setter, spledid dog work, traditional SxS game gun, and one of the best beards I've seen in many a year. A wonderful thing too (to my Scots Gaelic ears) is to hear Irish spoken in your videos. All of my English setters have been easy to train and were steady to point naturally. I am not a professional dog trainer and easily taught them 'come here', 'sit' (drop flat to the ground), 'hie-on' (get-on and hunt) in Gaelic, and hand/arm directional signals, easily and all before they were a year old. I dearly love this breed of bird dog. Mòran taing agus slaintè mhor!
Go raibh míle maith agat..
Really enjoyed the video! As Im sure you're well aware of the difference in a American English Setter and European English setters. It's was fun watching what I'll just call a traditional Setter point verses what Im used to seeing on this side of the pond. I have respect for and can appreciate both. I own American Brittanys but have hunted behind some French Brittanys also. I think Americans just hunt bigger and more open fields so we have developed bigger running dogs that stand tall so we can see them from 500 yards away. LOL. Have you ever hunted the US I bet ya would like it. You should bring a dog and a Fly Rod and hit Montana. Have fun and happy hunting!
Montana sounds good..
When he's gone he's gone 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I truly enjoyed the end of this video from 22 minutes onwards . It's a true true saying trust your dog if they wrong they wrong but putting your judgement over there's gives u a kick in the arse when they are right hahahaha great dog work she's after coming on a awhful lot I watched her from the very first video keep up the good work great vid put a smile on my face today 😂😂👍
I enjoyed it immensely myself,she is a star.
George I'm just after seeing this it's 1.3o am I cant give up now .gohalainn
Go raibh maith agat a chara.
Really enjoyed that. Great dog work; you've A good one the. And great to see someone else missing for a change!
Like most places I'd say that country had better days from a habitat perspective.
Yes Turlough,I have a good one indeed in Lady,the loss of habitat is truly shocking around here,intensive agriculture has seen the removal of vast amounts of our hedgerows and the removal of cover and indeed the filling in of ponds,it seems that no consideration is given to wildlife habitat,very sad indeed.
The most important thing an English Setter does is scent and point. Humans cant. Once the bird is shot, they find it, another thing humans cant do easily. As long as the setter is seen with the bird in its mouth, youre in business. If the viewers want a finished dog, well, lots of work. My experience w ES is, excellent in trailing and thes pointing. Beyond that, let them learn by going. As someone said, a gentle hand. Let them do what theyre expert in, point. Ive had 8 and working on # 9.
I agree with that.
Nothing covers ground like a good English setter
True for you Vinny.
My experience has been that setters don’t really like to retrieve, partic with bigger birds (eg pheasants). Those that don’t can be trained to/forced to, but not willingly. They will all find and hold downed game. My personal preference with setters is to let them decide if they want to retrieve or not. Setters take a gentle hand to reach their best, and a smart hunter lets the dog train them a bit.
Agree in total..
Lovely dog iv a Irish lluwellen setter in my picture
Thanks for the positivity..
Great to see lady working was wondering how see was getting on .Very unusal to see an English setter lying down when setting only ever seen this with droppers .She will only get better .
Yes,that's one of her charms,she's a class act in every way.
Hi there,
We have adopted a working english setter from spain who has been worked in the past. he is 3 but his recall is aweful. any tips on how to retrain recall?
Difficult to teach an old dog new tricks,however if he was trained to recall when younger you may be able to retrain him.Take him to a confined area and recall,if he doesn't respond run to him and drag him back to where you called him from,repeat until he recalls.Hope this helps.
James, I know this is after the fact, but if recall is still an issue, try this: using a vibrating collar, start in close proximity and activate the collar until the dog is at your side (use your voice command). It will be confusing at first for the dog, but it is very effective. Maintain the vibration until the dog is firmly by your side and in your control. I usually see results within a week. Hope this helps. I switch to tone for recall and use this when hunting spooky birds (think pressured pheasant) to avoid talking.
I think the phrase you were looking for was “that beat banagher”
Something like that alright...
Will she walk to heel?
My Llewellyn was trained to walk to heel. One day I was walking on the road and looked around to see where was my dog.
There he was, locked on a point and 40 yards behind.
Up on the ditch with me and bagged a nice cock pheasant that broke down the field when I shushed in the dog.
I would not push retrieving a bird from out in the open either.
Pick those yourself. Give her the harder ones if you can.Also in my humble opinion snipe, and pigeon in particular are loose feathered birds,.. Woodcock to a lesser degree.
I would be careful to always remove loose feathers from her mouth on the odd occasion that you let retrieve these.
But as you know the dog has way more brains they we give them credit for and all these things will come to her naturally. Wig just a minimum direction.