Pointing Lab: The Do-It-All Dog?
As a card-carrying traditionalist, I’ve always been more than a little skeptical about the pointing Lab. Why fix something that ain’t broke, you know? Then I met hunting and fishing guide John Klus of Lake Waubesa, Wisconsin. Klus is the owner of Oscar, a...
“Dogs” From the Sporting Classics E-Book, “Passages”
These great quotes about dogs are excerpted from the Sporting Classics e-book, Passages. You can download the book FREE and enjoy content like this every day by signing up for the Sporting Classics Daily e-newsletter. “At this spot are deposited the remains of those...
The Latest SportDOG Brand Rechargeable In-Ground Fence
SportDOG Brand, an industry-leading manufacturer of electronic dog-training products and accessories, has Introduced its newest solution for dog owners who want to give their dogs freedom to run ...just only so far: The Rechargeable In-Ground Fence System (Model...
Dogtra Expands Pathfinder, Introducing the Dogtra Pathfinder Mini
(Torrance, Calif.) Dogtra, the producer of the world’s finest e-collars and dog training products, is proud to announce the expansion of the PATHFINDER product line, introducing the newest product, the PATHFINDER MINI. Like all PATHFINDER products, the PATHFINDER MINI...
State Youth Coon Hunting Championship Celebrates 25th Anniversary
When all the points were tallied and the last dog rounded up at the end of the night following the annual South Carolina Youth Coon Hunting Championship at the S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ James W. Webb Wildlife Center in Hampton County, Jace Shuler of...
How Living With a Labrador Retriever in Brooklyn, New York Inspired Me to Start Girls With Gundogs
Two years ago, I was living in an apartment in the basement of a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I was working in private practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and spending most of my weekends driving two hours both ways to upstate New York to do something...
Editor’s note: Where you can find PennHip screening for CHD
On January 10th, 2019, a story by Shawn Wayment DVM concerning canine hip dysplasia (CHD) appeared in Sporting Classics Daily. The article describes a new screening protocol called PennHip. One of our readers asked how she could locate a vet who offers this. Good...
Canine Hip Dysplasia and PennHip
Robert G. Wehle wrote something in his excellent book Snakefoot: The Making of a Champion that has really struck me. His idea is that if you breed a dog for athletic function and not for structure (conformation), you are less likely to see orthopedic developmental...
Introducing SportDOG Brand X-Series E-Collars
Improving upon our most trusted line of training collars, the X-Series has 21 levels of static correction, giving you even more flexibility and precision when training your sporting dog. In addition to increased levels, all X-Series systems feature tone, vibration,...
It Was the Dog’s Fault
December 17th, 2018 Mrs. William Crawford Grant 102 Gold Street, Cloud City, Heaven Dear Grandmother, I apologize. Yes, I know you said never hunt or fish on Sundays. Yes, ma’am you raised me better than that. But I was thinking that you might make an exception just...