{"id":1762,"date":"2018-07-19T17:48:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T01:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?page_id=1762"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:00:56","slug":"deciding-point","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/?page_id=1762","title":{"rendered":"Deciding Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Deciding-Point.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1779 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Deciding-Point.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Deciding-Point.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Deciding-Point-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"attachment_1779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px;\">Deciding Point<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Deciding Point, 1675173, our female whelped January, 4, 2017 is sired by 5X Ch. Pennstar ex 9xCh\/RUCh Straight Forward.\u00a0 &#8220;Bek&#8221; is from a litter where the sire&#8217;s semen was frozen, then thawed and implanted into Straight Forward years after his passing.\u00a0 Her parents are the most famous and most award-winning dogs we have ever produced.\u00a0 We were thrilled to not just get pups, but to get a pup like &#8220;Bek&#8221; who personifies many of the traits that we and others have seen in her parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bek&#8221; started her life with a &#8220;whelper helper&#8221;.\u00a0 Bob, who usually handles the whelping, was out of the country and the reproductive specialists we worked with on the frozen semen process recommended a person who whelps litters for other on a regular basis.\u00a0 The litter was delivered by cesarean section and all the pups survived nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the early months of &#8220;Bek&#8217;s&#8221; development she was with Bob Watts.\u00a0 Her brother, winner Super Storm, was by her side in workouts where they both learned basic commands and how to hunt ahead, find and point birds staunchly.\u00a0 Both &#8220;Bek&#8221; and her brother, call name &#8220;Fed&#8221; (think tennis great), were outstanding in wanting to please as well as learning quickly and cooperatively.\u00a0 Once we had narrowed the litter down to our top two pups to go forward with, we passed the ownership of &#8220;Fed&#8221; to Thor Kain.<\/p>\n<p>Once the newly born woodcock population became established in northeastern Pennslvania both &#8220;Bek&#8221; and &#8220;Fed&#8221; moved to Thor&#8217;s kennel in Carbondale, PA.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t long until both pups were pointing wild birds and standing them staunchly.\u00a0 &#8220;Bek&#8221; clearly demonstrated the traits that Dick and I have long sought in our dogs&#8211;hard hunting, determination, athleticism, boldness and especially class in action and on point.\u00a0 It&#8217;s exciting every time we turn &#8220;Bek&#8221; loose.\u00a0 She&#8217;s exciting to watch running and on point.\u00a0 As &#8220;Bek&#8221; turned 1 year of age, Dick took her to Texas for a month and she cut her teeth on wild quail that are especially challenging.\u00a0 This experience further motivated &#8220;Bek&#8217;s&#8221; hunting desire and developed her maturity and intelligence on a new species of game.<\/p>\n<p>While we have dialed back a bit on running puppies in trials, we did enter &#8220;Bek&#8221; in some events that spring.\u00a0 Thor continued to work with her and the performance she rendered in winning the Nittany Valley Open Puppy stake was truly thrilling.\u00a0 Driving hard from objective to objective, &#8220;Bek&#8221; laid out and forward throughout.\u00a0 Her running style was arresting&#8211;hard to take your eyes off of her.\u00a0 She finished going away to the front.\u00a0 Following this win &#8220;Bek&#8221; was 2nd in a large field at the Venango Puppy Classic run over the Marienville, PA course.\u00a0 At this point, we knew we had a very special dog and that our plans for producing a dog like this, laid many years earlier with the freezing of Pennstar&#8217;s semen, had paid off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding Point Deciding Point, 1675173, our female whelped January, 4, 2017 is sired by 5X Ch. Pennstar ex 9xCh\/RUCh Straight Forward.\u00a0 &#8220;Bek&#8221; is from a litter where the sire&#8217;s semen was frozen, then thawed and implanted into Straight Forward years after his passing.\u00a0 Her parents are the most famous and most award-winning dogs we have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1762","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1762\/revisions\/2327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coverdogsetters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}