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Navigating the Sonoran Heat The Sonoran Desert is a high-stakes arena. Read the dog or bury the dog. The bar is set very high: you have a responsibility to keep your pups safe and hydrated. Don’t come home without one.

A good trainer forces you to think. AZPointingDog LLC

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Badlands Safety Across the country, rising temperatures and rugged terrain create unforgiving field conditions. Many hunters and dogs head out unprepared, underestimating just how quickly situations can turn dangerous. Essential Safety Checklist Leave a Travel Plan: Always tell someone where

We all have a hand in it, like it or not, we are always training for a desired outcome of what we want that dog to do. Some do just fine and others not so much. Sharing and learning means

Roxx Anne Boom Boom Ballew Heaven will be calmer and safer for our Roxxy girl. A true war dog on this earth that had a ‘wild hair’ for AZ gamble quail hunts. She’s now hunting the endless fields above in

Top 10 List  If I had only known Confusion kills & Consistency matters Establish the proper contact points Condition response – why does my dog do that? Timely praise goes a long ways Dog’s don’t talk human If you have

You or something stated it Understanding Conditioned Responses in Bird Dogs “It doesn’t just happen out of the blue.” Nearly every behavior your bird dog exhibits in the field is a conditioned response—either a result of structured training or natural

Here in the desert, we can honestly count the number of drops during a rain storm.  Winter and Spring moisture for the Gamble quail and summer monsoons for the Scale and Mearns quail.   Keep a rain calendar and track the

There are many ways to train your bird dog. One important note is to limit the amount of hands you are putting on your dog and if you are going to do it yourself then stick to a program. My