Sentences with phrase «flushing spaniels»

Flushing Spaniels are the descendants of Setters with the added ability of flushing out the game.

Obviously Labrador Retrievers, Flushing Spaniels and the Pointing breeds of dogs are best suited to be called a genuine gun dog.

Some experts believe that the ancestors of the Irish Setter were the early flushing spaniels of the fourteenth century, when bird hunting was accomplished by the dogs pointing to the trees in which the birds hid.

The judge must be thoroughly familiar with the work of flushing spaniels in the field.

Entries of all flushing spaniels would count toward the three dog requirement.

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Training Flushing Spaniels the American Way» by Jim Spencer, Howell Book House «Gun - Dog Training Spaniels and Retrievers» by Kenneth Roebuck, Stackpole Books «How to Raise a Puppy You Can Live With» by Clarence Rutherford and David H. Neil, Alpine Publications «How to be Your Dog's Best Friend» by the Monks of New Skete, Little, Brown

Hunting dog clubs (i.e. gundog, bird dog clubs) are eligible to hold any of the three types of hunting tests: Pointing Breeds, Retrievers and Flushing Spaniels.

Gundogs are divided into three primary classes: Retrievers, flushing spaniels, and pointing breeds.

Stanley, the third generation of MacQueens to take up gun - dog training, has spent the major part of his 29 years working with flushing spaniels.

The American Kennel Club writes: «Known for its level - headedness and perseverance, the Field Spaniel is a medium - sized flushing spaniel, built for activity and endurance in heavy cover and water.

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Everyone who trains or shows a dog; everyone who works with a herding dog, a search and rescue dog, a therapy dog, a retriever, a pointer, a flushing spaniel, or a livestock guard dog; everyone who competes in sled dog races or weight pulls or draft dog tests; and everyone who breeds dogs must learn to speak with a single voice that says «Stop.

Working Certificate Tests may be offered by an English Springer Spaniel club, or a club for other flushing spaniel breed (s).

Not exact matches

Spaniel trials are similar to those for retrievers in that the dogs retrieve game, but they also have to find and flush it for the gun.

For example, a dreaming pointer may immediately start searching for game, a sleeping springer spaniel may flush an imaginary bird, and a dreaming Doberman pinscher may pick a fight with a dream burglar.

Slightly larger dogs became known as cockers (for the woodcocks they flushed in the field) and field spaniels, and the largest of the group became the water spaniels and springers, named for the skills they possessed.

Within weeks, our 2 spaniels were patterning figure 8's down the field, finding birds, and were steady to flush and gun shot.

Pointing dogs have a very different style of hunting than spaniels or retrievers, which are «flushing» dogs.

The truth is, nobody knows for sure where this small spaniel with the waterproof coat and keen nose came from, but by 1870, the American Brown Water Spaniel, as he was often called, was established in the Midwest as a versatile hunter that could find, flush, and retrieve birds with uncanny aspaniel with the waterproof coat and keen nose came from, but by 1870, the American Brown Water Spaniel, as he was often called, was established in the Midwest as a versatile hunter that could find, flush, and retrieve birds with uncanny aSpaniel, as he was often called, was established in the Midwest as a versatile hunter that could find, flush, and retrieve birds with uncanny ability.

Again, some breeds of dog like Irish Setters were developed for their flushing ability, or Cocker Spaniels for their skill making birds spring into the air and startling the bird or critter to run.

The Spaniel is a moderately active breed that is happy flushing birds from thick cover or lounging around the house.

Energetic yet mild - tempered, and generally smaller than most Labradors or golden retrievers, the liver - and - white or black - and - white - patched springer spaniel is adept at flushing ruffed grouse from wooded cover, or pheasants from grassy uplands or tough cattail slough cover.

Cocker Spaniels would use their keen sense of smell to find birds, flush them out and then retrieve the birds with an ever wagging tail.

Both Welsh springer and English springer spaniels hunt game by flushing out their quarry, that is, «springing» on it from its hiding place.

Intended for flushing birds from thick underbrush, Clumber Spaniels are white with orange or lemon markings, most often around the head.

The invention of the wheel lock firearm in the 17th century made «flying shooting» possible, and the Spaniel was highly successful at flushing game for this style of hunting.

The Sporting Group includes breeds that assist in hunting, either by locating game (pointers and setters), moving / flushing game (spaniels), or retrieving downed game (retrievers).

Historically let's remember their origins as a lap dog, never intended to game, hunt or flush their purpose only to serve as a comforter spaniel, an aristocracy's playmate; a true toy — the proverbial pillow dog.

Does anyone know whether Clumbers and Sussex spaniels are still used for flushing birds?

Spaniel field trials and hunt tests are all foot handled, spaniels hunt in a «windshield wiper» pattern and «hup» or sit when they find the bird, then flush on command and retrieve to hand after the bird is shot.

Spaniels, in this group, are used to help the hunter flush out birds.

A very popular breed, the cocker spaniel was developed as a gundog for flushing woodcock in particular.

English Springer Spaniels are still used as flushing dogs, and today breeders that breed these dogs for hunting train the dogs to retrieve to hand, quarter, scented, follow hand signals, blind retrieve, and steady.

The English springer spaniel and the cocker spaniel were once the same dog, used for hunting and flushing, or springing, game.

The English Springer Spaniel, also known as the Springer Spaniel, the Springer, the Wood Spaniel, the Norfolk Spaniel, the Springing Spaniel or the «gamekeeper's dog,» was originally used to flush game for hunters and falcons centuries ago.

Spaniels were especially bred to flush game out of dense brush.

Unlike other spaniels, this breed was not developed to flush birds but rather to jump into the frigid waters of Ireland to retrieve dead or wounded wildfowl.

Pointers and Setters point and mark the game, Spaniels flush the bird, Retrievers recover the game from land or water.

One of the group of spaniels that works before the gun, springing or flushing birds for the hunter.

The English Cocker Spaniel, or Cocker Spaniel as it is known in the rest of the world, is a bird dog designed to work before the gun, springing or flushing game out of cover.

Collies were herding flocks of sheep, spaniels were flushing quarry out of bushes and retrievers were retrieving downed birds in lakes and ponds.

Cocker spaniels are sporting dogs that are sent ahead of the hunter to flush out the game.

From a simple instinctual hunter to an advanced finished dog steady to flush and shot with the ability to deliver to hand those long blind retrieves or multiple falls, the English Springer Spaniel will with no doubt add intense pleasure to your days afield.

Bred as a hunting dog that could flush game from the field, the springer spaniel is lively and athletic.

The English Springer spaniel was bred around the turn of the 19th century as a hunting dog with an expertise at «springing» to flush out game bird — hence his practical moniker.

The Welsh Springer Spaniel is a spectacular athlete that can be happy flushing birds in the fields or playing Frisbee in the yard.

The cocker spaniel was originally bred as a hunting and gun dog capable of flushing out game as well as retrieving it.

The larger types were the «springing spaniel» and the «field spaniel,» and the smaller, which specialized on flushing woodcock, was known as a «cocking spaniel.»

Land Spaniels specialize in flushing birds by springing towards them.