May, 1920 
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HOME TRAINING OF THE PUPPY 
H AVING made up our minds that we 
have secured the individual we are 
looking for we must lay our plans 
for his education and make a decision 
as to whether our pupil is to be schooled 
for the big open country on chicken or 
quail, with a chance perhaps of making 
a name for himself in some of the big 
stakes on the Field Trial circuit as a 
Derby performer, or whether he is to 
match his skill against the wily grouse, 
be a first cla'ss woodcock dog or just a 
common meat dog taking in everything 
that comes his way in the shape of 
feathered game and doing his hunting 
in his own meat dog way. 
Presumably, if we have aspirations 
for our newly acquired puppy becoming 
a second Mary Montrose, we wisely de 
cide to place his education in the hands 
of a reliable trainer who has the ground, 
the birds, and the knowledge of how to 
make Derby winners from Derby pros- 
pects. If we have such a puppy and the 
individual and the breeding warrant the 
test, it is well to place the puppy in such 
a trainer’s hands for trial, for should he 
fail to pass, we yet may have the timber 
for a high class shooting dog, should our 
pleasure carry us into the quail country. 
If, however, we have made up our 
minds that what we want is really a high 
class shooting companion, one who travels 
afield with us performing to our satisfac- 
tion as a brush dog or a field dog should, 
who rides in an automobile or a railroad 
car without requiring shackles, one who 
stays put, in other words, wherever we 
take him we must begin his education at 
an early age and at home. 
Such dogs as we have in our mind’s 
eye are rare. Every man owns one or 
thinks he does until he sees a good one. 
Grouse and woodcock dogs are scarce 
and the best of them are home bred. Did 
you ever see a good one? Did he range 
beyond whistle of the mouth? Did he 
knock down trees and tear up the brush? 
Did his owner yell, run him down, and 
thrash him every hour? Did he walk 
in the road when his master did? Did he 
hunt back of you half of the time? Did 
he crawl all over every one in the car, 
eat up the game and the lunch and hunt 
about one day in every three. 
Our proposal is to show you, step by 
step, how a good puppy can be home 
trained so that he can shine in any 
company afield and be a welcome visitor 
in any home and a joy to his master until 
he is called to the happy hunting grounds, 
having earned a niche in the memory of 
all who love a good dog. If it is possible 
to secure two promising puppies of dif- 
ferent blood lines, either both males or a 
male and a female, so much the better, 
for, as our work progresses we are sure 
to find one pup much more to our liking 
than the other, both as to brain and tem- 
perament and this pup we can carry on 
to perfection, disposing of the other at 
some early stage in its training or when 
fully broken. We do not believe that 
working two puppies in company or 
working a puppy in company with an 
older broken dog is of any benefit or 
makes the training of our pupil any 
OREST AND STREA 
Steady 
easier of accomplishment. We believe 
in giving one dog at a time our undi- 
vided attention and requiring the same 
of him. 
We should want our puppy to come to 
us and become a part of our household at 
an early age — eight or ten weeks being 
an age at which we should begin to claim 
his attention. 
In the illustration we show two 
young pointers, brother and sister, 
bred from the best of pointer blood lines 
that at 6 months of age, when this pho- 
tograph was taken, were perfectly broken 
and had been heavily shot over. The pic- 
ture shows them down on quail in the 
stubble fields of Georgia. 
Thti successive stages through which 
we shall carry our puppy to perfection 
we will designate as follows : House and 
yard training, field training on game, re- 
trieving. In following issues of Forest 
and Stream we will advance our ideas 
as to the home training of the puppy. 
Now is the season when we should look 
about us for a youngster that will repay 
us for the labor expended and one that 
by a summer’s work may be ready for 
the gun and the field when the brown 
leaves rustle again. — E. R. W. 
JOSEPHINE WATTS 
A BOVE we illustrate a very fine exam- 
ple of the American foxhound — one 
with a remarkable record, Josephine 
Watts (Hope x Erdine), owned and bred 
by Mr. Jack Mansfield, Taunton, Mass. 
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Winnings: best hound in show, Boston, 
1920; best bitch in show and third in en- 
durance in Field Trials, Brunswick Club 
trials, Barre, Mass., October, 1919. 
THE STUD DOG 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
A PROPOS of the most excellent article 
in the March number of the Forest 
and Stream, “The Stud Dog,” too much 
cannot be said in commendation ; it seems 
to me, however, that there is a step be- 
yond to be considered. The addition to 
the article I would express briefly as 
follows : 
Breed that good setter, or pointer ma- 
tron, of yours to the stud dog of cor- 
rect breeding that possesses himself the 
qualifications you wish to perpetuate ; the 
qualifications that will, if properly de- 
veloped in your puppies, make them most 
useful in the country which you expect 
to hunt in; the qualifications that will 
give you, or your friends to whom you 
give a youngster, the greatest enjoy- 
ment and satisfaction afield. 
To illustrate what I mean: I own a 
young Llewellin bitch, sired by Master 
Redfield, bred in direct line of Gladstone 
— Sue Llewellin, bred to satisfy the most 
fastidious Llewellin “purist.” 
I also own a son of the great dog 
Boaz, he by Jessie Redfield Count Glad- 
stone. This son of Boaz is out of a bitch 
by the great Momoney. 
This entire line of breeding is along 
Field Trial lines, developing fast, wide 
going dogs, dogs that are able for two or 
three hours to maintain great speed, and 
wide range. Now I would not mate these 
dogs to produce dogs for New England 
shooting; to do so would court disap- 
pointment. Contrawise, I would breed 
my good bitch, Haverford Counts Belle, 
equally as well bred, only along different 
lines, bred from a line of ancestors who 
have been trained for cover shooting with 
limited range and less speed, to a stud of 
excellent ancestry, trained for the kind of 
shooting that I personally want to in- 
dulge in. 
So if you want to break into the Field 
Trial game breed to Field Trail winners 
or winners’ sons. On the other hand, if 
you want to breed for New England 
pheasant, grouse and woodcock shooting, 
breed to a stud bred and trained along 
that line. H. B. Perry, Mass. 
__ A DOG’S SYMPATHY 
■“THEY may say what they please about 
A a dog being only a dog, but there 
are times when the company of an in- 
telligent and faithful dog meets the na- 
tural longing of the human soul for un- 
alloyed sympathy and disinterested 
friendliness. W. A. B., New York. 
THE IRISH SETTER 
T HIS beautiful member of the setter 
family seems to be coming into his 
own again. The breed is being 
rapidly pushed to the front by the Irish 
setter fancier and there is seemingly a 
great demand for young stock. We un- 
derstand that Irish setter fanciers in all 
parts of the country are becoming inter- 
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