Tremor Dogs! Let’s See Um!

Hunterman · Jan 15, 2025

Not my pup but I was inside my Tremor when I saw him

WakeZilla · Jan 15, 2025

This is Finn and Loki. Finn left us last year and is now playing fetch with Grandpa, just like old times. There was enough overlap for him to teach Loki all of his bad habits, which is just fine with us. Finn loved to go for rides but somehow I have no pictures of him riding. Loki is not as keen yet but it will grow on him.

Sludgemonkey44 · Jan 16, 2025

Now that the snow has fallen we’ve learned that our Kimber turns into a snow ninja

Sturmgewehr · Jan 16, 2025

Wrathchild · Jan 19, 2025

Got out camping/hunting for a few days, and Kyuss got his first Chukar! Idaho is a lot different from AK and his whoa needs more work in the off season. But man it feels good to get it done after weeks of grinding.

Troutpost · Jan 23, 2025

BFill85_KRTremor · Jan 23, 2025

WakeZilla said:
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This is Finn and Loki. Finn left us last year and is now playing fetch with Grandpa, just like old times. There was enough overlap for him to teach Loki all of his bad habits, which is just fine with us. Finn loved to go for rides but somehow I have no pictures of him riding. Loki is not as keen yet but it will grow on him.

Golden-doodle?

I had a golden (biscuit - my niece saw and named him after the kids book series) and goldendoodle (gunner). Both have passed in the last 2.5yrs.

My kids are pressing me to get another dog soon so starting to look at goldendoodles again. Looking at mini/medium size so it can ride on floor in back or between kids in back seat on trips.

Explorerinil · Jan 23, 2025

Wrathchild said:
View attachment 188053 View attachment 188054 View attachment 188055 View attachment 188056Got out camping/hunting for a few days, and Kyuss got his first Chukar! Idaho is a lot different from AK and his whoa needs more work in the off season. But man it feels good to get it done after weeks of grinding.

My Brittany is sitting on my lap jealous of those pics!

Wrathchild · Jan 23, 2025

Explorerinil said:
My Brittany is sitting on my lap jealous of those pics!

Kyuss has a lot of years left in him but a Brittany is on the short list for my next one. If you find yourself in Idaho give me a shout, be fun to get the dogs together!

Whaler27 · Jan 23, 2025

My dog pops wheelies when he’s excited. Any kind of game, or chasing down birds, or a chance to ride in the truck produces the same excitement.

He’ll be 4 in June, but the puppy fur and puppy enthusiasm are still intact.

Dogs are the best people.

Vermonster · Jan 26, 2025

Been looking for a whitetail shed my whole life. They are like needles in haystacks around Vermont. We just do not have a ton of big rack bucks - but don’t get me wrong - we do have a good share.

Today was the day. This one looks like it was from last year. I had seen the spike last year on my property too. So it’s probably him. I think he was harvested this year as a 4pt.

Anyway, I’ve wanted to train my pup to find them with me, and now I have a trainer shred!!!!!!

I’m super excited! “Winslow” aka Winnie/Windsor was too! She’s about 1.5 years old - Black Labrador.

piranhapattie · Jan 26, 2025

Vermonster said:
Been looking for a whitetail shed my whole life. They are like needles in haystacks around Vermont. We just do not have a ton of big rack bucks - but don’t get me wrong - we do have a good share.

Today was the day. This one looks like it was from last year. I had seen the spike last year on my property too. So it’s probably him. I think he was harvested this year as a 4pt.

Anyway, I’ve wanted to train my pup to find them with me, and now I have a trainer shred!!!!!!

I’m super excited! “Winslow” aka Winnie/Windsor was too! She’s about 1.5 years old - Black Labrador. View attachment 195884

She’s adorable

Vermonster · Jan 26, 2025

A proper photo of her!

Canyon Trekker · Jan 26, 2025

Vermonster said:
Been looking for a whitetail shed my whole life. They are like needles in haystacks around Vermont. We just do not have a ton of big rack bucks - but don’t get me wrong - we do have a good share.

Today was the day. This one looks like it was from last year. I had seen the spike last year on my property too. So it’s probably him. I think he was harvested this year as a 4pt.

Anyway, I’ve wanted to train my pup to find them with me, and now I have a trainer shred!!!!!!

I’m super excited! “Winslow” aka Winnie/Windsor was too! She’s about 1.5 years old - Black Labrador. View attachment 195884

When I was young many years ago, my dad raised labs for sale. This was back in the early 60s. My dad would train our labs with bird wings. After showing the wing to one of the dogs, he would hide them in all kinds of places, each time consecutively more difficult and hidden under the bed, behind some piece of furniture, and eventually outside. The labs would find them every time by scanning the area. Very smart dogs with a great nose!

Great looking lab you got there.

Vermonster · Jan 26, 2025

Canyon Trekker said:
When I was young many years ago, my dad raised labs for sale. This was back in the early 60s. My dad would train our labs with bird wings. After showing the wing to one of the dogs, he would hide them in all kinds of places, each time consecutively more difficult and hidden under the bed, behind some piece of furniture, and eventually outside. The labs would find them every time by scanning the area. Very smart dogs with a great nose!

Great looking lab you got there.

That’s exactly my plan with this shed!!! I hope she grasps the concept. So cool you grew up with them too!

DirtMcGurt · Jan 26, 2025

Our new addition, Odin.

Whaler27 · Jan 26, 2025

Canyon Trekker said:
When I was young many years ago, my dad raised labs for sale. This was back in the early 60s. My dad would train our labs with bird wings. After showing the wing to one of the dogs, he would hide them in all kinds of places, each time consecutively more difficult and hidden under the bed, behind some piece of furniture, and eventually outside. The labs would find them every time by scanning the area. Very smart dogs with a great nose!

Great looking lab you got there.

That’s how we train ours. Eventually we transition to a launcher that fires a dummy with a .22 cal blank. I tape wings to the dummy being launched. The game gets the dog used to gunfire, teaches them to mark, and associates the bird scent with the game/job.

We’ve also used labs at work for many years. Their noses are amazing, and they can’t be fooled.

Dogs noses are more than just better. They don’t experience scents the way we do. Where we smell “pizza”, they smell all the individual ingredients that make up a pizza, so there’s no masking a scent by burying it in other scents that would easily hide it from us.

One drug dealer put well sealed pounds of cocaine into ziplock bags containing cheap cologne. Those bags were then put into bags of coffee grounds, and those bags were then wrapped in sheets of Bounce dryer sheets, bound with duct tape, and twisted into a string of big, fat, overstuffed, sausage-like links that were stuffed up into voids inside a truck’s body panels. We stopped the truck the next day. It had traveled almost 1000 miles when “Mac” was applied to walk around the truck. He made it about a quarter of the way around the truck before finding the dope. No hesitation at all. Not fooled for an instant.

People are used to seeing labs working as drug dogs and service companions. More recently they have started working with game wardens, as the dogs will find brass, fired shotgun shells, people, and poached animals. They are amazing partners and friends — and better than most people.