Minnesota Moxi

Up here in Minnesota Moxi is still hunting hard. Now 5 years old Moxi is very proficient with pheasant and grouse. Moxi has still been doing work at a local preserve hunting for father son team and small businesses

out for a day with clients. Moxi impresses those that get to shoot over her. Some folks nervous at first because Moxi doesn't always hunt close, being a trial dog she's not afraid to punch out there to find the bird. When folks begin to understand that she can hold a bird until they are able to get there to take a shot, they begin to relax and see the beauty in what's taking place. That's why I began guiding groups so that I could share the beauty of working with a pointing dog and to disprove any thoughts that anyone may have about red dogs being able to hunt. Don't get me wrong Moxi isn't perfect things don't always play out as in the pages of Field & Stream, if I had better writing skills I sure could write a couple good stories now. Moxi and I have many more success stories than we do

failed. It's not just Red Dogs but any dog being used for it's intent and worked with, honing and fine tuning to the level of your own satisfaction. For me to drive an hour to a hunting spot, shoot my limit of two roosters in 30 to 45 minutes... well lets just say, I'm okay with that! To have them pointed for me, priceless.

ISCA National Field Trial...

The Irish Setter Club of America held their national field trial and supporting stakes this past week at Booneville Arkansas. Here are a few pics of the action. Thanks to Jeannie Wagner for the pics!

Dog pills...

Before you let your dog have the keys tonight for his big date...


... be sure to remind him of the dangers of mixing alcohol and meds! Yes, this is an actual label for an actual veterinarian-dispensed drug.

Thanks to Terrierman blog for this pic!

Holly's Memory grows up...

Holly's Memory is a pretty little red setter owned and currently being worked by Jan Zarebicki. Holly started out little slow, but once she figured out there were wild birds out there, she came along! Jan is hoping to use her as a trial dog or perhaps to do some woodcock hunting up north, or maybe both! Holly is out of King Cormac x Flushing Whip Flash Edition. I'm sure that our dear friend Holly Bruns is smiling, along with her dad Dale.

Our friend Holly Bruns

Our friend Dale Bruns


Holly's Memory...

Thanks Jan for being a part of the Purest Challenge!

About That Wet Dog...

Scientists Reveal How Fast Dogs Must Shake To Dry Their Fur

(from NPR.org)
If you've ever seen a dog trying to shake itself dry after taking a plunge into water — or perhaps while standing next to the person who just gave it a bath — you've probably noticed that the technique can throw off a shocking amount of water.

That's all part of nature's design, says Andrew Dickerson, a graduate student at Georgia Tech. Talking with NPR's Robert Siegel, Dickerson described his recent study of how fast different animals "oscillate their bodies to shed water droplets," as an abstract of his work states.

If that's too esoteric for you, check out this video:



For his study called "The Wet-Dog Shake," which appeared in the journal Fluid Dynamics, Dickerson and his colleagues slowed down images of animals — dogs, a bear, even a mouse — shaking themselves dry. The footage was shot with a high-speed video camera.

The researchers found that both bears and dogs shake at a similar speed — around 4 Hz and 4-5 Hz, respectively. In this case, hertz refers to the frequency of skin oscillations per second. And it turns out that the smaller the animal, the faster it has to shake to dry. Thus, a cat can get by with shaking around 6 Hz. But its nemesis, the mouse, requires 27 Hz to dry off.

Dickerson says that his work focuses on discovering mechanisms found in nature. The research on how animals shake off water, he says, may have real-world applications in improving the design of washing machines.

But he does not recommend that any human try to duplicate what is, by many rights, a dog's trick.

"If you were to get down on all fours and try to shake off water after a shower," Dickerson says, "your efforts would be most unfruitful."

National Red Setter Shooting Dog Championship

The National Red Setter Shooting Dog Championships will be held November 3-7 2010 in Grovespring MO. Drawing is November 2. For more info, check the NRSFTC website at

http://www.nrsftc.com/schedule_fall.htm

I need a dog like this...