Mr. Gary Hammonds book?

Want to know if it's a good read?

 

Re: Gary Hammonds book

I asked him sign mine, it's mainly about the early years for him and leads up to park son, I enjoyed it.

 

Re: Gary Hammonds book

yes its a good piece. he is working on part 2 !!!!!!!.. defenatly recomend that book...

 

Re: Gary Hammonds book

Its a very good book. Gary goes into a lot of areas The Plumbers and their dogs,proper care,nutrition, stories of dogs and dogmen. I liked it a lot.

 

Re: Gary Hammonds book

I dont doubt the book is a good read , but as far as good care and nutrition advice from gary goes, has anyone seen how he keeps his yard , its a disgrace i wouldnt be taking care advice from gary thats for sure .

 

nobody asked you DIK.

 

I read the book, I enjoyed it, and thought it was good...

 

sorry mr revo should i lie and say gary keeps a great yard and that his yard keeping is what we should all strive to achieve ? i think if a man puts out a book and has a part in that book regading good dog care, then he at least should live upto that same standard of care rather than the one he actually lives upto , which as i said is a disagrace , but if you think his yard isnt a mess then thats your call , but dont get pissy by calling me DIK especially when im right , or is treepitz also a DIK cos he agrees and belive me anyone who has seen garys yard would tell you the exact same thing .

 

Hi trepitz , nobody asks anyone for their opinion they just reply to posts that have been made without the need for an invitation to do so, and the only reason i mentioned it, was becasue redrumdog made a point about the care and nutrtion in his post about garys book , and as i said garys book im sure is a good and entertianing read , but if he has a chapter on dog care then he needs to read it himself cos as you agree with me his dogs care leaves a lot to be desired thats all .

 

The prob is your (CIK) opinion is usually negative and off topic.What is your opinion of the book not the tidiness if his yard.You find a way to sling shit in every thread.Having a clean yard or dirty yard does not affect the usefulness or lack there of of his book

 

I thought it was a good read . Gary talked about the Plumbers and other great dogs. How he obtained Rufus and his talks with Maurice Carver.Some of the stories about dogmen was very good. The health part about feeding/exercising I thought was good for at the time and breaksticks. I think you will enjoy the book. How Gary keeps his yard whether you like it or not or agree with what he or anybody else says you can learn from it. Either by coping what they do,or by not making the same mistakes they did.

 

its a good book

 

mr revo my opinions or posts may seem negative to you if you have a problem with the truth, i asume your refrering to the eli blind billy thread , where i laid out why i feel floyd was not being completly trtuthfull about the true ped of either dog, or maybe its another thread where becasue i try to get to the bottom of certian sometimes touchy subjects , folks like you decide that cos they cant deal with looking at it as it might actually bring to light some actull truth occasionaly then its better to just call me negative and suchlike, which is fine, but when i cross the road i look both ways before crossing it, if you and folks like you cross it with your eyes closed then good luck with that .

And as for garys yard not affecting his book, well like i said originally, if a man has a chapter in his book about good dog care, then dont you tihnk he should try to stick to those standards himself , i mean i think it was a fair point, and if i had wanted to be really negative as you say i could have said his book was a total garbage which i didnt ,had i wanted to sling c r a p at him like you say, no i just made the point about his dog care and that he should take a look at his own chapter on that subject in his book occasionally.

What gets me about folks like you mr revo, is that regardless of how much a man can be a liar or a terribvle yard keeper or ped faker, you would rather say nothing than actually have an opinion yourself and then have the balls to tell me that im negative cos i actually say what i feel is true , i dont know but it seems that maybe you need to realise that by just saying nothing doesnt make it go away , it makes it worse.

Now to make this clear and so mr revo and such likeminded folks cant call me negative ,i will say again that i am sure that garys book is a very good read , and i never said that his book was no less usefull just cos i said his yard was a disgrace , i just made the point thats all .

 

The book is good ,,well worth buying,,,,

 

CIK I see where you coming from but look at it like this.Unless in his book he's giving out improper advise on yard keep/upkeep then how he keeps his own yard won't change that.If I put out a book that gives info on how to successfully institute a raw diet the fact that I may feed my own dogs ol Roy has no baring on my raw feed info get me.

 

It's like saying a boxing trainer ain't worth listening to because he doesn't live the way he tells his fighter.And as for turning a blind eye and making problem go away as you put it.Well how anybody else does or treats they dogs is never a problem for me.And it shouldn't be one for you.If you don't like how his yard looks then don't visit it or get dogs from him.if you find his book useful/entertaining or whatever then say so.If you don't find it useful/entertaining then say so .But base it off the info in the book not your opinion of him or his yard.or start a thread about his yard so people don't have to sift through the bull .

 

hi revo , i think it does make a differance regardless of whether the dog care advice or general dog keeping advice in garys book is good , as if a man is talking the talk then he should also walk the walk as they say.
Now my point was just that , and anyonehaving seen his yard unless there blind will tell you its a disgrace , and if i had seen his yard then read his book, i wouldnt be taking the advice from his book based on what i had seen , so you see even if his dog care adivce is good and sound , but his own yard and dog care is anything but sound, then it detracts from the advice given in the book,
and the same would apply to yuor anolgy of a book on raw diets which may well be god advice for a raw diet, but if the person putting out the advie is feeding ol roy as you said, then i would ask why that person isnt taking thier own advice and that would mean they have never done it and so have rally no knowledge based on actually feeding raw .

Revo i understand that the anolgy you use is really one to try and make grays care advice still seem worhty , which it may well be and im sure it is , but if his yard is a disgrace then wouldnt it be better to just say it is and at least that way instead of covering garys back from critisism , maybe a realty check is what gary needs on his yard care , rather than folks covering up for him .

How many of us would take conditioning advice from a guy whos never done it, or at best done it less than a handful of times and with no success (cali jack lol) but bases their keeps from a good old mix of everything out there ? well yes im sure even a keep like that can work , but im guessing you better have a superior dog to start with , cos if im going for keep advice ,im going to the best man i know for the job ,who has every angle and every problem you can face covered ,not someone whos played the game for 5 minutes so to speak and thinks their the best conditoner out there (cali jack) , and that to me makes the world of differance to how much respect you give to thier opinion and advice ,be it dog care /keeps or even breeding dogs , if im going to listen to a man then he better walk the walk and not just talk the talk .

 

i own one good book and ill be buying part 2 when its out.

 

If your really concerned give the man a call and have a conversation with him about the conditions on "his" yard and your dislike for the look of it, etc. Talking about him/his yard while he is not here is not helping anyone or anything, it is merely bashing. Mr. H has had dogs a long time and is getting up there in age which may have something to do with the accumulation of stuff on his yard, or maybe not, he has downsized over the past few years do to age. Possibly his yard(like many) may go through ups and downs and this is just his "Sanford and Son" stage bwahahahaha