tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post4972128130855541089..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: Let's Wink at Shooting Dogs and Wounding SheepPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-49452719721172647652018-02-01T00:16:00.351-05:002018-02-01T00:16:00.351-05:00wow--that's a lot of ignorance.
and a lot of d...wow--that's a lot of ignorance.<br />and a lot of dissociation from the reality of Nature.<br /><br />in my mind, along with the e-collar standards, training instruction for the owners should required as well.<br />e-collar training, like choke chain or pinch collar training, isn't as simple as giving a correction or pushing the button.tuffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16113985064101042445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-43514476462375539942018-01-30T02:46:08.939-05:002018-01-30T02:46:08.939-05:00I once sold a pup to someone whose Jack Russell to...I once sold a pup to someone whose Jack Russell took down an adult sheep! They assumed it was safe cause the dog was so small. It amazes me that herding dogs aren't more inclined to chase and maim. Sheep are such easy prey. Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14389321571689128858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-69557990910095818972018-01-27T18:06:31.731-05:002018-01-27T18:06:31.731-05:00So... later post says e-collars are great for many...So... later post says e-collars are great for many forms of correction and proofing. This post points out a few places they're banned (could add that they're banned in much of Australia as well). No wonder it's hard to find a trainer who uses punishment effectively. What a sorry mess.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14389321571689128858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-15329490927538234822018-01-27T14:44:36.410-05:002018-01-27T14:44:36.410-05:00As long as studies on e-collars are conducted in t...As long as studies on e-collars are conducted in the manner of the study below, we will not be getting anywhere. Say what you want, but to me it looks like a mission to prove the failure and not a scientific question. <br /><br />http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0102722Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-73881155471237793472018-01-27T08:19:52.403-05:002018-01-27T08:19:52.403-05:00I pasture 1-400 ewes during the grazing season and...I pasture 1-400 ewes during the grazing season and have adopted a year old coonhound.He is often loose. In the weeks before the ewes arrived I trained the hound on a handful of old retired sheep by penning them where he'd pass them at about forty feet - outside the immediate chase perimeter. He'd worn the ecollar previously for "come" and "leave it".<br /> I let the coondog out with the sheepdogs (who ignore sheep unless working) and when he showed the very first puzzled interest in the sheep I nicked him with the ecollar. I repeated this exercise for days before letting him loose where he might find sheep on his own. <br /><br />If the dog is fully committed to an attack, the ecollar may be too late.<br /><br />He is now sheep-safe but training for sheep aversion isn't simple nor is it -like the recall -perfect. A shepherd friend's lab took down a sheep suddenly and unexpectedly after a year of ignoring them. Prey/predator.<br /><br />Donald<br /><br /> Donald McCaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11890894628274998487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-88436837250268118362018-01-26T17:26:24.144-05:002018-01-26T17:26:24.144-05:00It's so much easier to get simple bad regulati...It's so much easier to get simple bad regulations passed than to write a sensible regulation that actually resolves a problem. "It's dangerous! Ban it immediately." doesn't require people to think or pay attention for very long. <br /><br />I still remember how persuasive the pure positive spiel felt to me when I was first trying to figure out being a responsible dog owner. Getting past that instinctive "sounds true" to actual science, evidence, or data is a hard sell to the general public, who are told to trust their gut and taught to hold their quick opinions up on the same level as those of any expert. <br />CJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13252735583719181618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-69951615691150345312018-01-26T09:33:40.525-05:002018-01-26T09:33:40.525-05:00Actually, the banning of cheap pot-metal guns beca...Actually, the banning of cheap pot-metal guns because they explode has actually happened in Britain. Our legislators really are that stupid.<br /><br />Two companies, first Saxby-Palmer then Brocock Engineering (who still exist, having branched out) had a line of manufacturering whereby normal firearms were specially weakened and adapted to fire self-contained air cartridge ammunition. This ammo was a brass cartridge-like container which was charged with highly compressed air; the nose end unscrewed to take an airgun pellet. The entire assembly had an internal valve system that dumped the air to fire the pellet.<br /><br />This all worked very well, but there was a problem in that the guns sold were usually modified firearms, modified by drilling out the revolver cylinder and barrel and replacing both partly with pot-metal. What you had was a device which could be converted back into a Saturday Night Special.<br /><br />Whilst it was possible to do a competent job on this conversion and produce a gun as good as the original, most conversions were really, really badly done. The man recounting this tale, a retired chief inspector of a firearms department, told me that on the first shot such a gun had about a 25% chance of exploding. Second shot was 50/50, third shot about 80% chance of destroying the gun.<br /><br />One evening shooting he had attended (teenage disagreement over love, basically) was solved by means of fingerprint evidence. The accused had fired three or four shots, the final one of which had caused the pistol to detonate, severing some fingers. It was from these the suspect was traced, picked up from where he was hiding out and taken to hospital for treatment before arrest.<br /><br />This class of air gun was banned over a decade ago, in a catch-all Antisocial Behaviour Act.<br /><br />Which was a pity, because they made a very nice replica of a Martini-Henry rifle that I quite fancied owning, if only for the coolness factor (although it would have done passably well in Sporting Rifle competitions with a replica period 'scope on).Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618328278732100203noreply@blogger.com