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Part Two! On the way home....Did I end up picking a dog and what one? · Bird Dogs and Big Game

• 0:20
  Tyce: Hey everyone.
• 0:20
  Tyce: Welcome back to the Bird Dog Podcast.
• 0:24
  Tyce: my name is Tys Erickson.
• 0:26
  Tyce: I'm here, as your host, and this is part two of picking up.
• 0:33
  Tyce: My new little dog that I just got.
• 0:35
  Tyce: So listen to part one, this is part two.
• 0:39
  Tyce: I am on my way back home to Utah and I have a red little dog sitting here on the seat next to me in part one.
• 0:50
  Tyce: I, talked about how I was going out to meet a breeder to pick up a red setter, for a little upland dog for myself.
• 0:58
  Tyce: And, I have one.
• 0:59
  Tyce: I talked about how I was gonna evaluate the dogs.
• 1:02
  Tyce: There were three dogs I was choosing from two males and a female.
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  Tyce: I didn't really care on, uh, sex at this point.
• 1:10
  Tyce: I didn't care if it was a male or a female.
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  Tyce: I just wanted a good dog.
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  Tyce: And so I, was open to what everyone showed me the best, things that I was looking for.
• 1:19
  Tyce: So there was two males.
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  Tyce: The owner had named one Steven and one Michael.
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  Tyce: and then there was a female, her name was Isla.
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  Tyce: And ILO is a little bit older, in age than them.
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  Tyce: I think she's only about a month older from a different breeding.
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  Tyce: And then there's Steven and Michael.
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  Tyce: So these dogs were nine months old, roughly And so talking to the breeder from the situation.
• 1:43
  Tyce: I didn't feel like they had gotten out a whole lot.
• 1:47
  Tyce: he probably did his best, like most everyone, but I think he's a single guy.
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  Tyce: And, had the dogs more together.
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  Tyce: He did have some land so they could get out.
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  Tyce: He said he had 10 acres, that were fenced, where he could run the males and the females, two separate 10 acre parcels.
• 2:02
  Tyce: I think they got outdoors, plenty.
• 2:04
  Tyce: Um, where we met in Wyoming, it was pretty cold and windy.
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  Tyce: The dogs had just traveled for three hours, I'm sure it was their longest road trip and dogs, and they go their first road trip.
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  Tyce: That long.
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  Tyce: It just, it throws'em off.
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  Tyce: It's kind of like us sometimes we just get out of the car and we're kind of stiff and tired just from that traveling and they can sense things too.
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  Tyce: I think they can sense when the owners are gonna be, dropping'em off or.
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  Tyce: Getting rid of one.
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  Tyce: they can kind of sense that type of stuff.
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  Tyce: And so they were a little nervous.
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  Tyce: I could tell that, I could tell they were, pretty attached to the breeder'cause they're, nine month old dogs.
• 2:43
  Tyce: and that's common I see when people bring dogs into us for training and for my training business, you know, very commonly they're drooling.
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  Tyce: they're dogs and they get nervous, especially in travel.
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  Tyce: They'll get a kind of a tacky.
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  Tyce: Drool, this drool that'll kinda like hang from their lips and get all tacky.
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  Tyce: it's kind of weird.
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  Tyce: it is something the dogs get nervous, their drool gets kind of sticky and tacky and it kind of hangs from their mouth anyways.
• 3:09
  Tyce: So there's a little bit of that I saw with, one or two of'em, mostly the little female, kind of evaluating her.
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  Tyce: But I'll kind of go through each Once.
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  Tyce: The first dog we pulled out was the little female named Isla.
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  Tyce: she, seemed to have a good little personality.
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  Tyce: I could tell she was, a little nervous, didn't know what the heck was going on, and cold weather, and all of a sudden we drove and all of a sudden there's some stranger there.
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  Tyce: And, um, but I could tell she had a good little personality to her.
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  Tyce: Um, first thing I did is pulled the, the chucker out.
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  Tyce: Took the wing and dangled that kind of around and played with it.
• 3:41
  Tyce: And I have a few little techniques, get'em chasing it and just see if I can get her kind of warmed up and drive and, she was showing some interest.
• 3:48
  Tyce: Um, I.
• 3:49
  Tyce: Kinda getting a little creepy.
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  Tyce: I don't know if I ever saw her throw a point, but if I'd talked to her vocalized, she'd kind of get a little nervous and she'd run back over, kind of by the owner.
• 4:00
  Tyce: I was hoping I'd maybe get like a Lock up on a wing type thing.
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  Tyce: But I think just there was so much going on in their surroundings, they wouldn't allow'em to like get real comfortable and focus in on things.
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  Tyce: So I tried a dead bird.
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  Tyce: She didn't seem interested in that.
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  Tyce: Again, I think she was more, um, aware of.
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  Tyce: Just me and what's going on.
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  Tyce: She couldn't really relax a hundred percent in the situation.
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  Tyce: Then I pulled out a live pigeon that was clipped.
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  Tyce: The wings were clipped, and so threw that around.
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  Tyce: She actually did show some excitement towards that.
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  Tyce: She, ran after it.
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  Tyce: I couldn't get her to pick it up.
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  Tyce: She never did retrieve it or pick it up.
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  Tyce: Um, she kind of put her mouth on it, like she was going to pick it up.
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  Tyce: Then she'd leave it and just kind of almost get nervous and then come back to the owner and, and so we tried that with that pigeon for a while.
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  Tyce: So she showed interest in it.
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  Tyce: And I think she'll actually probably be a pretty good little dog.
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  Tyce: She just needs to get out, get socialized, get more exposure.
• 5:03
  Tyce: I think she'll, come around if she ends up going to a home.
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  Tyce: Um, so that was her.
• 5:08
  Tyce: I evaluated her on barking.
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  Tyce: She whined a little bit.
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  Tyce: We had her in the crate, made a little bit of a noise, but not bad.
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  Tyce: and that was pretty much the one little one named Isla.
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  Tyce: Then there was, Michael pulled him out and he, had a pretty good little personality.
• 5:27
  Tyce: he came up and I pet him and kind of got to know him there for a second.
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  Tyce: He did chase the bird on the wing.
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  Tyce: He showed some interest on it a little bit, but he was pretty distracted.
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  Tyce: I think he was just kinda like more.
• 5:42
  Tyce: Where are we at?
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  Tyce: What are we doing?
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  Tyce: Kind of distracted by his surroundings.
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  Tyce: Tried throwing the dead bird, uh, no interest.
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  Tyce: Tried the live bird and really no interest.
• 5:51
  Tyce: He showed the least amount of interest out of the three, And, uh, you know, still pretty fairly reserved.
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  Tyce: Now these are setters, so I knew they were gonna be a little more reserved.
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  Tyce: Um, a little more uncomfortable just with travel, new people, stuff like that.
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  Tyce: so that was Michael.
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  Tyce: And then Steven was the last one we pulled out.
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  Tyce: The other male, he's a little taller, has a little longer coat on him, but still More of that field bread coat.
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  Tyce: I threw the wing on the string right off the bat.
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  Tyce: He was, showed the most interest, continued focus, didn't worry about it.
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  Tyce: The guy said he.
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  Tyce: The most independent, strong-willed one.
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  Tyce: And when I have an upland dog, I want a little bit of that.
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  Tyce: I want a little self-confidence.
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  Tyce: And especially with the setter where they tend to be a softer breed.
• 6:41
  Tyce: And so it totally made sense that he was that way where he was showing interest in the bird or the wing.
• 6:47
  Tyce: I did get him to point some.
• 6:50
  Tyce: Then I.
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  Tyce: Grabbed the clip wing pigeon, threw that out, He was excited, about it right off the bat.
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  Tyce: I was able to get him to pick it up and not retrieve it to hand, and I didn't really care again about that, but I was able to get him to go out there, grab it.
• 7:06
  Tyce: And actually carry it around.
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  Tyce: Um, and, he was consistent on that and consistent on the bird.
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  Tyce: So I like that.
• 7:15
  Tyce: Um, he was still reserved, like the other ones.
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  Tyce: I think just again, new surroundings, new person.
• 7:22
  Tyce: Uh, he was a little standoffish, but, I checked on vocalization.
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  Tyce: I put him in a crate, let the owner and I stand where he could see, so he'd get a little, uh, when we were in front of him and all.
• 7:34
  Tyce: So knot in front of him and he did not make a peep.
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  Tyce: And so he is the one that's riding and holding the car with me.
• 7:42
  Tyce: his name was Steven.
• 7:44
  Tyce: Name will probably be changed.
• 7:45
  Tyce: Nothing against the name, but I'm probably gonna name him something else.
• 7:48
  Tyce: So we got a few more hours here to hopefully pick out a name for him.
• 7:54
  Tyce: And then I think he kind of knew his name a little bit, but not overly so we can still make that change.
• 7:59
  Tyce: That'll, be no problem.
• 8:01
  Tyce: So yeah, evaluations, I feel like it was good.
• 8:04
  Tyce: We did it.
• 8:05
  Tyce: Just if I had just jumped out there and picked one off, you know, personality or something like that, I, you know, I would've known so.
• 8:15
  Tyce: Um, hopefully those tips can help you guys.
• 8:17
  Tyce: If you're looking at maybe a little older dog, or, even evaluating a puppy, you can get'em on birds, do a few things.
• 8:25
  Tyce: But an older dog, I definitely want to evaluate and kind of see where they're at.
• 8:29
  Tyce: Um, I think too, just being in the industry of training that I'm in, it helps that most dogs come to us for training at six months of age or older.
• 8:40
  Tyce: So I'm used to dogs kind of being nervous off the bat.
• 8:44
  Tyce: I feel like I got a pretty good gauge, obviously doing this for 16 years of reading personalities and kind of, Hey man, This is what he's telling me and, looking at those traits that I have seen to produce a good bird dog.
• 8:57
  Tyce: So he's been riding here in the passenger seat with me, hasn't made a peep.
• 9:02
  Tyce: Seems calm.
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  Tyce: That's what I was hoping for, is a good, calm dog around the house.
• 9:07
  Tyce: But then hopefully he'll turn it on birds when we want him to, and we can develop his point and turn him into a beautiful upland dog.
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  Tyce: So I'm excited about him.
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  Tyce: It's gonna be a fun, fun little adventure to see what we can turn this guy into.
• 9:20
  Tyce: so something with setters, and I knew this going into it, they are a softer breed.
• 9:27
  Tyce: Um, they're actually not one of the funnest dogs to train in my book.
• 9:34
  Tyce: but they're fun and challenging at the same time, just because they're.
• 9:37
  Tyce: Softer.
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  Tyce: You gotta be more patient with them.
• 9:40
  Tyce: You gotta use lighter pressure.
• 9:42
  Tyce: Um, but when you put'em in the upland field, they really open up, they turn on.
• 9:47
  Tyce: And then I do like how around the house some of'em, not all of'em can tend to have a Pretty good little off switch.
• 9:54
  Tyce: So anyhow, we're gonna continue to bond with this guy.
• 9:59
  Tyce: Socialize him, get around the kids, let him open up and, uh, yeah, maybe we'll do another episode here in the future.
• 10:06
  Tyce: Fill you guys in on how he's doing once a.
• 10:08
  Tyce: We start into his training, kind of give you an update on him and, we'll give you, his name also.
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  Tyce: So anyhow, that's it for part two, coming and going and picking up, my new Red Setter.
• 10:20
  Tyce: And, hope you guys enjoyed it and we will talk to you later.
• 10:24
  Tyce: Have a great day.