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gcreekrch
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katrina
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Northern Rancher
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| The best canadian cow dogs will, go get the puck if you shoot it over the boards.
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MsSage
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badroute
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I don't want to start a fight or anything but I just wanna say that anyone that has no use for a good cowdog has maybe never truly been short of help. I run my place by myself and if it weren't for my two dogs there are certain things that would take forever to do. It is not uncommon to move 100 or 150 head of cows with just me and the dogs(providing the cows know somewhat where they are going).
I prefer to run a Mcnabb cross dog as that is what I have always had the best luck with. They are truly a dog that can go all day long, their stamina is very hard to beat. They are hardworking and loyal but are sort of one-person type dogs. They are never gonna win any congeniality awards.
Just my 2 cents.
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Northern Rancher
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| Where do you get your McNabb's from.
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badroute
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NR,
I got my last Mcnab from Eggens out of Plentywood. The dog is 1/2 red heeler and 1/2 Mcnab. The bitch was the the heeler and the male Mcnab was a really unique buckskin color that I have never seen before. My dog was a year old in Sept. and is really coming along quite well. He is quite a stunning dog to look at, too bad I had him fixed. I got him fixed in July and 63 days later my blue heeler female had pups so I guess he tagged her the day he got fixed. I kept one pup and she is showing some real promise.
The last one I had was 1/2 blue heeler and1/2 Black Mcnab, a cross between two of my neighbors dogs. She worked cattle til she was 13 years old almost the same as she did when she was 2. She fell out of the back of the pickup and got ran over by the trailer so she went out still being able to work which she loved.
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leanin' H
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Soapweed
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Location: northern Nebraska Sandhills
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The key word is GOOD cowdog. A bad one makes a guy wish he was packin' a pistol!  |
GOOD is the key word, and by this not necessarily from the owner's "pride of ownership" point of view. In other words, would someone looking on consider the dog GOOD also.
Here is a little book report I made back in December of 2007, after getting a new book for Christmas:
A retired veterinarian, who practiced in this area, recently wrote a second book of his memories. It is entitled, "Worth Remembering" by David L. Browder, DVM, and I enjoyed it very much.
Here is a little portion of his book:
| "Worth Remembering," by David L. Browder, DVM wrote: |
One time the local highway patrolman told me this story about stopping the rendering truck. It was in the middle of the summer and was very hot. The rendering truck was full of bloated stinking carcasses and was weaving all over the road. The patrolman pulled the truck over and had this conversation with the driver, "Joe, what's the problem, you're going all over the road. Are you drunk?" "Hell yes, I'm drunk. You think I could drive this stinking outfit if I was sober?" "I see your point; I'll just give you a verbal warning but try to drive a little straighter."
The little blue heeler dog biting the cow in the picture (on the cover of his book) conjures up some memories, some of which are not all that pleasant. Virgil and Alice were clients and friends of ours, and along with their two kids, Wayne and Beth, ran a large ranch in the Sandhills. Virgil and Wayne had a typical father/son relationship in which Wayne was blamed for most of the problems that occurred on the ranch. Consequently, Wayne would take a lot of good-natured abuse about everything, sometimes deserved and sometimes not. You can't make any mistakes if you don't do anything, and you couldn't accuse Wayne of not doing anything; he always had something going. Wayne had just bought a new blue heeler dog and was demonstrating just how good a cow dog he was. We were going to vaccinate calves and were trying to push the calves up the alley-way to the pen by the chute. We were having a hard time moving them, and Wayne was going to sic his new dog on them. He hollered, "Sic 'em, Blue." Unfortunately, the first thing the dog saw to "sic" was Virgil, and he promptly latched on to Virgil's heel. Virgil let out a holler, kicked the dog off, and told Wayne to lock that mutt up in the well house.
The same dog turned out to be a pretty good cow dog but was really aggressive and could really cause me problems when I was pregnancy checking cows. I had to open a little gate in the alley-way and step behing the cow in order to pregnancy check her. The dog was always biting the cow that I was checking, causing her to kick, or even worse biting the cow behind me causing her to try to jump on top of me. I finally discovered a real good solution to this problem. I had some chewable tranquilizer pills that dogs just loved, and just before we started working the cows, I would toss four or five to the dog when no one was looking. In a little while he would stagger off and go to sleep for three or four hours and not cause any more problems. Virgil would notice the dog and accuse Wayne of buying a no good lazy mutt. Wayne would declare that his dog was sick and want me to treat him when we got through working cows. I told Wayne that I had seen dogs with this same affliction before, and had a special pill that would cure him. I would give him a vitamin pill, and sure enough he would be back to normal in another hour or so.
Wayne thought I was a wonderful dog vet. I finally had to tell Wayne what I was doing though, because every time I went out to their place, his dog would pass out, and he was getting a little bit suspicious. Wayne said he would really like to have a bottle of those tranquilizer pills. I told him it probably wasn't a good thing to keep giving them to the dog. He said, "Oh no, I don't want them for the dog, I want them to give to my teacher; it would really be neat if she would take a four hour nap every day." Bad idea, Wayne. First of all, it was illegal; second of all, people might not react to the pills like dogs; and last of all, they didn't taste as good to people as they did to dogs. I knew this for a fact because when I tried to give them to my kids, they just spit them out. |
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Faster horses
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That was terrific, Soapweed. I'd like to read the whole book.
BUT...that was not a GOOD DOG.
Not trying to convince you (I gave that up years ago because I
respect your position) but please go to
this link and watch Skidboot. I've talked with David Hartwig and
he said he didn't teach that dog anything, he just talked to him and
showed him what he wanted the dog to do. It's really amazing.
And for you people who have kids, I really recommend the book
and the video. And they don't cost much. www.skidboot.com
Ok, Soap, here the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4VMntSUskg
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Faster horses
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