by Dr. David M. Svinarich | Nov 25, 2020
Purchasing a hunting puppy is typically a joyous occasion for a family…but it should automatically come with a few additional items as a standard package. Not long after my wife Kat and I became the proud new owners of an 8-week-old Labrador retriever puppy...
by Tom Dokken, SportDOG Brand Sr. ProStaff | Nov 11, 2020
None of our dogs are perfect. Here are a few of the most common issues that retriever owners frequently need to address during the season. SPONSORED CONTENT Hunting season! Time for all your summer training and hard work to pay off. Thankfully, your waterfowl dog is...
by Robert Parvin Williams | Oct 23, 2020
Eyes night-blind from the dashboard light you plunge Into the swamp to please the dog, walk By feel between trees and tangled vines, feet Seeking the hardness of the path, following. She trots ahead and stops, tail Slapping briars as she turns, impatient. Blindness...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 12, 2020
Paying extra careful attention to hydrating your dog in warm temperatures is important. Use these tips to help him keep his cool this season. SPONSORED CONTENT For some of the year, bird season openers along with field trials and hunt tests are accompanied by warm...
by Jim Casada | Sep 22, 2020
A piece of artwork speaks to the soul in a fashion even the most exquisite photographs cannot accomplish. Sulkowski’s paintings do that for me. The visual aspects of life astream and afield have long captured the fancy of discerning sportsmen. Witness, for example,...
by Tom Davis | Aug 25, 2020
Gundog handler and trainer, Jordan Horak, is known as the “dog whisperer” of cocker spaniels, beginning as a young up-and-comer to becoming a national pro. A few years ago— late-October 2015, to be precise—I had the pleasure of hunting woodcock in central...
by H. William Rice | May 18, 2020
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...
by Tom Davis | Apr 27, 2020
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...
by Mike Gaddis | Mar 17, 2020
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...
by Tom Keer | Aug 19, 2019
The year was 1969, and headlines were ablaze with Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk, Woodstock and, alas, bell-bottomed trousers. Meanwhile, Paul Iams founded a premium dog food company that he named Eukanuba. Competitors wondered, “Who in their right mind would double...
