Exercise-Induced HRI: Does Your Dog Need Help?

Exercise-Induced HRI: Does Your Dog Need Help?

A gun dog’s drive may override his ability to know he’s overheating, so it’s up to every owner and handler to keep their dogs safe from HRI. SPONSORED CONTENT  If you want your dogs to be sharp on Opening Day you’ll have to run them in the summer. But hot temperatures...

Summer Swims are Super!

Unfortunately for some dogs, summer means a prolonged down time. Summer is the time to explore everything — and get out there. My summer plans make up a long list of to-do things. On my list are fishing, hiking, camping, running, digging out gophers, chasing...

Cusp of Summer On a Carolina Day

There is nothing more apt to illustrate life than a stilt house hovering over water set to the rhythm of a spring tide. A friend of my granddad’s used to sit on our porch in a wicker rocking chair and watch the creek go by. That creek is part of the Elizabeth...
Candid Cameron: Dog Days of Summer

Candid Cameron: Dog Days of Summer

This summer season has been a scorcher! Here’s how our friend Cameron the Weimaraner cools off during those Dog Days. In much of America the outside temperatures have been true scorchers the past few weeks. The Dog Days of Summer continue to bear down upon us —...
An Old Man’s Memories of August

An Old Man’s Memories of August

This fisherman’s fairytale is far from folklore… A true story of giants, fairies, heroism and romance stay alive in an old man’s memories. Once upon a time long ago and far, far away, there was a boy. “Wait,” someone will shout. “That sounds like an...
Candid Cameron’s Countdown to Hunting Season

Candid Cameron’s Countdown to Hunting Season

This Weim Wednesday, Cameron feels the heat of summer and starts his two-month countdown to bird hunting season – his favorite time of year. Look at the calendar and you will note it is July, so that means one thing — hunting season begins in about two months. Trust...
Beginning Again Come July

Beginning Again Come July

“In every journey the road will bend. Who can know how the story will wend? To every beginning, there must come an end.” Cliché? Maybe, but profoundly, as inescapable truths that bracket the birth-to-death limits of our being. In the between time, there is...