Things Trainers Hate
When you hire a professional hunting dog trainer, you’re investing trust in someone you expect to help make your dog the best it can...
Hunting Dogs
Cold Hard Facts
If you like snow, ice and extremely cold weather, go to Alaska. If you want expert Alaskan advice on cold-weather care and optimizing performance...
Preventing Soft-Tissue Injuries
Is that just a little limp or hitch in the gait, or is your hard-charging bird dog about to succumb to a season-ending soft-tissue...
Field First Aid
If you have a bird dog, it’s not a matter of if, but when. Even a first-time dog owner knows that there is no...
Midseason Corrections
Sunrise had been two hours earlier, but dang if it wasn’t still dark. Rain wrung out of the gray, low-hanging clouds in such a...
Ask A Vet: How Do You Deal with Heat Stress in a Hunting Dog?
Sponsored by: Purina Pro Plan Dr. Seth Bynum is an accomplished veterinarian, writer and photographer as well as an avid outdoorsman. His veterinary practice...
5 Health Tips to Help Make Your Gundog’s Season Great
Sponsored by: Eukanuba Upland and waterfowl hunting takes us to some of the most stunningly gorgeous places around. But they’re often wild and unknown—and...
Prepare to Peak: Getting Your Gundog Ready for the Season
In mid-April 1996, the night before Patriot’s Day, Jeff Doyle told me he wouldn’t be at the dock at 3 am to go fishing....
One Man’s Flushers
A welcome breeze cooled me as I sat on the long-deceased carcass of an evergreen high in the mountains of Nevada. Tucker playfully rolled...
Tracking-and-Training Devices
The distance display on the Garmin Alpha 300 resembled one of those rapidly spinning cartoon odometers: 300 yards, 350 yards, 400 yards . ....
Can You Hear Me Now? The Three Ts of Canine Communication
Mike Stewart, the founder of Wildrose Kennels, which specializes in breeding and training Labrador retrievers, says that one of the secrets of dog training...
On Choosing a Pointing Dog
As bird hunters, we all appreciate the beauty of a classy pointing dog that hunts in control, sticks every point and effortlessly retrieves downed...