u/jsvd87

I work for a CA company and live in Alaska.

My contract is salary, paid weekly as well as a day rate for when I am working on a job (most jobs are in CA but some are in other states).

I am on a 2 week on/off schedule.

I would estimate that I am in California about 100-120 days a year (I could find an exact number at the end of the year)

my company is currently withholding CA taxes on 100% of that income, I am trying to verify if that is correct.

Am I taxed on all of my income? or am I taxed only when I am in state?

Thank you.

I have some bobwhite quail for training my bird dog (I know probably not the most popular use in this sub)

they are starting to lay in the coop/aviary. Is there any point of leaving the eggs in the coop? or will they not hatch there?

I have a young (13 week) WPG. First I know he is super young. My expectations are low and my training is more of just exposure/setting the guiderails. I’m just looking for more opinions as how to approach this to set him up for success down the road.

From day one this dog retrieved well. Ill toss something, he brings it back to me.

From day one he has also been a chow hound. he inhales his food, and will eat anything and everything (related later)

I introduced him to wings, then a scented bumper and things changed a bit. He wanted to shred the wing, and parade around with the bumper. I introduced treats and was able to get him to bring them back. I do 1-3 tosses/hides a day for him when we’re out in the yard.

I introduced him to live birds which went well. He picked up the scent and actually pointed.

From there I have started to put him on an occasional live bird as well as hide frozen dead birds for him to find a few times.

He does great finding both, and the live ones flush but the moment he has the dead ones in his mouth he turns and runs… finds a spot and chews. I honestly think he is trying to eat them. When he figured out they were frozen he brought one to a muddy spot out back and tried to bury it. I was able to get them from him by showing him another dead bird and lots of praise.

So obviously a good problem to have, he loves birds. How would you guys continue light training sessions to set him up to break this habit. I don’t think he will burn out on birds they are like crack to him. I was thinking a long lead? People say have something to trade with him for it but I just don’t think there is anything of equal or greater value he will accept.

I have a fresh 10 week old griff pup. and he is great. easy to train can tell he has a good nose etc… I’ve only had extremely high drive/stubborn French britts before. When getting a Griff many people told me they will be a more sensitive dog and they’re right.

at this stage it makes the basic obedience stuff easier because he just wants to be around me wherever I go and wants to please but I am concerned that he is noise shy.

with my britts I’m sure I could have just brought them out and shot over them no problems but I did the proper training and intro. when I made noise as they ate they were unfazed.

with the griff he tucks his tail when I make noise. He also gets startled by other random loud noises for example my neighbor drove past (gravel road) with a loaded dump trailer banging around. The dog and I were in the driveway and he ran off to the backyard.

long story short I want to make sure I do this correct. A few questions. If he is tucking his tail when I bang a pan or smack a book while eating should I stop that for now? Obviously I’m not doing it super close to him. Any softer approaches to introducing noise? Or is this standard puppy behavior and i just had meat heads before? Should I get the cd of gunshots/classical music? I forget the name. Any advice is appreciated!

tldr - my young griff pup is noise sensitive and I’ve never had a dog who is before. Just want to make sure I don’t mess this up.

obviously most have all done it, and everyone says “don’t do that it’ll teach them to sight point” so we put it away.

I understand the concept but I have some doubts that doing wing on a string repeatedly with a young pup who has a strong nose/track instinct will ruin that.

there are plenty of unnatural situation we use to train as building blocks towards refining that natural instinct they have. Woah barrel/post, wing locked birds, bird launchers etc.

Probably not worth messing with it much in the long run because obviously we are training the nose and it’s more just a novelty… but I’m wondering if there is anyone out there that uses it as a training tool to introduce an early “natural” woah.

is there any data to this or is it more just something that gets passed around?