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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:13 pm    Post subject:  Hup? Reply with quote Scroll Down to Next postGo to last Post of PageTweet This Post
Ok Ok this may sound stupid, so bear with me Laughing

History lesson coming up...

I have been taught to train dog's with the word "Hup", to sit.
Now, my Grandad has taught me this and he says it has carried on through the generation's - His Grandad done the same with him belive it or not.

But does anyone know why this word has came about? or why it is used?

Anything would help Embarassed


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:19 pm    Post subject:   Reply with quote Go to Top of PageScroll Up to Previous postScroll Down to Next postGo to last Post of PageTweet This Post
Not very helpful - but it's hup in Suffolk too (could it be a shortening of sit up???) - will go & have a google

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:19 pm    Post subject:   Reply with quote Go to Top of PageScroll Up to Previous postScroll Down to Next postGo to last Post of PageTweet This Post
My understanding is that Hup, is a corruption of the hunting term "Hold Up".

I, and every one else I know uses "Hup" with Spaniels, I still use "Sit" with the Labs, just force of habit with me.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:20 pm    Post subject:   Reply with quote Go to Top of PageScroll Up to Previous postScroll Down to Next postGo to last Post of PageTweet This Post
Don't know the answer but if you keep saying "Sit up" fast enough it sounds like Hup. So Hup is a short sharp word to say rather than Sit Up.
Am I close?


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Not even in the same parish Fred, sorry!!! Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

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This is the best I can find:
"It is said that the use of the word "hup" instead of "sit" to command spaniels dates back to the early days of shooting with muzzle-loaders over spaniel/setter-type dogs. When game had been shot, guns would be lifted hup to be reloaded, and everything would pause, dogs included.

If only. Looking through The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, the sole usage of the "hup" I can find is John Jorrocks MFH to his horse: "Come Hup! I say, you hugly beast"... oh, the times I have longed to address a fellow gun along similar lines. "
source: http://www.thefield.co.uk/gundogs/152339/Gun_dog_class_roughshooting.html

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OK - someone has been speaking to Andrew!!!!

'Hup' is a spaniel only command - a lab doesn't understand that kind of odd language Laughing Laughing 'Hup'= 'sit' for 'normal' dogs Laughing Laughing

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:12 am    Post subject:   Reply with quote Go to Top of PageScroll Up to Previous postScroll Down to Next postGo to last Post of PageTweet This Post
Laughing Cheer's,

aww well ... i must go into school and sit a english prelim now Embarassed
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Just to be different - I use "hup" to get my boys jumping into the back of the vehicle! (There's always an odd one!!)

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:59 am    Post subject:   Reply with quote Go to Top of PageScroll Up to Previous postScroll Down to Next postGo to last Post of PageTweet This Post
Some people in the show world use "hup" for sit so as not to confuse their dogs with both "stand" and "sit" beginning with "s" - probably not the answer you were looking for LOL
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