What’s the Rush? The Best Time to Neuter/Spay Your Dog

What’s the Rush? The Best Time to Neuter/Spay Your Dog

The practice of neutering at an early age may increase a dog’s risk for developing a laundry list of serious health problems. In terms of wisdom-per-page, a slim little paperback called Common Sense Grouse and Woodcock Dog Training by Roy W. Strickland as told...
The General

The General

Once he strikes a trail, a great rabbit dog like The General might just keep a’goin…on and on to the damn ends of God’s green earth. Everybody in the piedmont had heard of the General, but nobody had hunted with him. His owner, Reverend Eddie...
Half a Dog

Half a Dog

All his life he’d wanted such a bird dog, and finally he was getting one, though problem was, he could only have half of him and dang if he could decide which half he wanted. Two old friends, been longer together than shoe leather, out huntin’: The morning...
A Better Blind

A Better Blind

My pro trainer friend Bob Olson had been raving about the Switchback Dog Blind/Kennel Crate, and when I finally made it up to his place (River Road Kennels in Lena, Wisconsin) for a look, I immediately became a believer. While the Switchback has a lot to recommend...
New Training Collars

New Training Collars

SPONSORED CONTENT SportDOG Brand has just released a new line of dog training collars to its SportTrainer family. Three models in either black or orange are offered. The SportTrainer 1275 has a range of 3/4 mile and gives you long distance control of your dog and...
Hunting for Happiness

Hunting for Happiness

Man or woman, dog or gun, you never know when you might say goodbye. Fixing to write this down before I forget, the days and years slipping away the way they do, that blaze of autumn to water the eye, the flames of maple and oak and the dry-bone rattling aspen, that...
Great Dogs

Great Dogs

The most difficult part of nurturing a great dog is keeping yourself straight. I think of the dogs I have loved. Bird dogs. Yours and mine. I think of the ways I have loved them. This time, aside loyalty and devotion—almost a given within kind and understanding...
Eukanuba Puppy Formulas For Sporting Breeds

Eukanuba Puppy Formulas For Sporting Breeds

Puppies have unique nutritional needs to help them grow and explore their new world and Eukanuba has developed special puppy formulas that provide complete and balanced nutrition giving puppies a great head start. The formulas include a natural fiber and prebiotic...
Brittanys

Brittanys

An angel at home and a demon in the field, the French Brittany packs maximum ability in minimum volume. In the 30 years or so that I’ve been scribbling about gundogs, the biggest “breed story” has been the renaissance of the cocker spaniel. Finding a...
Jim Thorpe, Hunting Dogs, and the Half-time Show

Jim Thorpe, Hunting Dogs, and the Half-time Show

Green Bay, New York, Chicago, San Fran and LaRue, Ohio:  what do they have in common? NFL franchises. But it was the rural Ohio team that was perhaps the most unusual. Its legacy lives on in the halftime show—a show rooted in marketing hunting dogs. LaRue native...