That is a natural instinct of pointers. You don't train them. They either have it or they don't. When I was a kid, the neighborhood German Shorthaired Pointer would point out pheasants, other birds long before you could see them. For rabbits, she would just run after them.
Yeah what Anom says is correct. I’ve been around GSPs my whole life and have three currently. They will point already as a puppy. I had a little 6-8 week old female lock up on something on the front walkway one time only to find a big night crawler wiggling his way across the flagstone. She was letting me know.
Yep, it's built in. We got a puppy and turned it loose in the back yard to get familiar with his new home. While trotting around, he suddenly stopped and came to point.
My shop installed cameras throughout the entire plant. Just like #10, there is video of me driving a lift truck into an aisle to pick up a tub of scrap metal, and behind me a white tail doe ran down the main aisle, turned right past my desk, and took off through the next doorway. The next camera caught her running past the air compressors, by the security guard making his rounds, turning left at an aisleway, and running past some saws, towards the open doors of the truck well, where she jumped and down onto the loading dock, disappearing into the woods. We kept our gates locked at night, so the guard went and opened the gates to let her out. Eventually, he saw her run out and she took off back into the woods behind the place. I never saw her, she ran within 10 feet of me. Our plant was about 1 mile from Lake Michigan. From the roof of our building, maintenance people saw 10 and 12 points, with very heavy bodies, due to no hunting. We often saw them during the day wandering around, but none of the very big ones, usually just does with fawns in the late spring/early summer and the odd bachelor. We also saw just about every other critter from red fox, to bobcats, coyotes, and of course, turkeys and the like. There was a sand mining company behind us, so there was a huge manmade lake, and it drew a lot of wildlife. The sand company has shutdown, and they are making high value condos there. When I hired into the foundry back in 1978, the foundry and sand company were sister companies. There was a grey iron company in our town that was at one time the largest in the world. One of the owners had two sons, who started these two companies, and they each took one company when they both started doing well. The foundry went through several owners in my time there. The owner before this present one was Warren Buffet. Now I heard that it has sold again. When I was there, we made 85% of the world's metal for artificial implants, from replacement hips to knee replacements, to the pins and screws and plates that they use to put busted up bones back together. Due to the piss poor way that they treat their employees, even their metallurgists, one of them left, went to a competitor and took some of their business with him. It is of course a very competitive business, like anything medical.
You were lucky. Last foundry I worked for there were nothing but ugly black hookers pulling tricks on the RR tracks and drug deals. We just sat begin the razor wire (no shit razor wire) and laughed. We also played “guess the caliber” when we had a chance and the natives were expressing themselves. WiscoDave
#2: Was that the result he wanted?
ReplyDelete#6, I wish I could train a dog that well
ReplyDeleteThat is a natural instinct of pointers. You don't train them. They either have it or they don't. When I was a kid, the neighborhood German Shorthaired Pointer would point out pheasants, other birds long before you could see them. For rabbits, she would just run after them.
DeleteMy dad used to hunt pheasant outside of Castle AFB with a guy who's dog would point on KC-135s taxiing down the runways.
DeleteYeah what Anom says is correct. I’ve been around GSPs my whole life and have three currently. They will point already as a puppy. I had a little 6-8 week old female lock up on something on the front walkway one time only to find a big night crawler wiggling his way across the flagstone. She was letting me know.
DeleteYep, it's built in. We got a puppy and turned it loose in the back yard to get familiar with his new home. While trotting around, he suddenly stopped and came to point.
Delete#3 Now, kick her while she's down.....
ReplyDelete#6 Good Boy!
ReplyDeleteMust have been a soccer player when she/it was in shape...
ReplyDelete#3, was that a former professional soccer player?
ReplyDelete#4: Stop sitting there w/yer thumb up yer ass.
ReplyDeleteWait. That's Uma Thurmond, ain't it?
DeleteNo, its Uma Thumbmond
Delete#8 Just buy a set of brick tongs for $20.
ReplyDelete#4 I bet she gives a great hand job
ReplyDelete#4 I think is a tranaplanted finger.
ReplyDeleteI don't have that many joints in my thumb.
Of course, I may be a throwback ;-/
John in Indy
My shop installed cameras throughout the entire plant. Just like #10, there is video of me driving a lift truck into an aisle to pick up a tub of scrap metal, and behind me a white tail doe ran down the main aisle, turned right past my desk, and took off through the next doorway. The next camera caught her running past the air compressors, by the security guard making his rounds, turning left at an aisleway, and running past some saws, towards the open doors of the truck well, where she jumped and down onto the loading dock, disappearing into the woods.
ReplyDeleteWe kept our gates locked at night, so the guard went and opened the gates to let her out. Eventually, he saw her run out and she took off back into the woods behind the place.
I never saw her, she ran within 10 feet of me. Our plant was about 1 mile from Lake Michigan. From the roof of our building, maintenance people saw 10 and 12 points, with very heavy bodies, due to no hunting. We often saw them during the day wandering around, but none of the very big ones, usually just does with fawns in the late spring/early summer and the odd bachelor.
We also saw just about every other critter from red fox, to bobcats, coyotes, and of course, turkeys and the like. There was a sand mining company behind us, so there was a huge manmade lake, and it drew a lot of wildlife.
The sand company has shutdown, and they are making high value condos there. When I hired into the foundry back in 1978, the foundry and sand company were sister companies. There was a grey iron company in our town that was at one time the largest in the world. One of the owners had two sons, who started these two companies, and they each took one company when they both started doing well.
The foundry went through several owners in my time there. The owner before this present one was Warren Buffet. Now I heard that it has sold again. When I was there, we made 85% of the world's metal for artificial implants, from replacement hips to knee replacements, to the pins and screws and plates that they use to put busted up bones back together. Due to the piss poor way that they treat their employees, even their metallurgists, one of them left, went to a competitor and took some of their business with him. It is of course a very competitive business, like anything medical.
You were lucky. Last foundry I worked for there were nothing but ugly black hookers pulling tricks on the RR tracks and drug deals. We just sat begin the razor wire (no shit razor wire) and laughed. We also played “guess the caliber” when we had a chance and the natives were expressing themselves.
DeleteWiscoDave
#6 Shoot god damn it!
ReplyDelete#7--nice Adolf haircut!
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
#2 What lowered the vehicle?
ReplyDeleteProbably has it bagged... Air suspension.
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