A witness to what had to come and the thin line between right and wrong, Dee girl had it all. Her paradise will be full of flight with endless birds and a steady “Alright” Stay bird ready Dee Dee BIRDS!!!BIRDS!!!BIRDS!!!
A Product of Experiences
The more trust and confidence you build the more birds you will find. You can sense a bird dog that has spent time on the ground hunting wild birds in different upland conditions. New experiences and past will round out
Cutting the mustard
Quartering ‘Get your bird dog back into the hunt’ We are not training our pointing dogs to cut back and forth the entire time we are hunting, that would be silly. Cutting or turning your dog on command is a
Total Recall
Consistency, Patience and Praise The most asked question “how do I get my dog to come back to me”. Since we are talking and training pointing dogs, my first response, ‘why do you want them to come back to you?
Parlor Tricks
Teaching Parlor Tricks – Not Here! I would not introduce parlor tricks to my pointing dog and here’s why. Parlor tricks are commands you train your dog to perform i.e Sit, Lay, Roll Over, Handshake, Play Dead, etc, and treats
It’s all about the Dog. Dawg!
Loading up the dogs it’s the same straight-up talk/order directed right at you! ‘Keep watch on my pups and don’t come home without one!’ Love you…….. There you go! the BAR is set very HIGH and seems simple enough. Remember;
What’s in your box?
Don’t mess with Little Miss! Carving up grounds with precision and delight our Pocket Pointer was an amazing site. Having that special dog in the dogbox was an honor. She was a razor edge, lighting in the bottle, pants on
One Angry Squirrel and Leave It!
We talk a lot about keeping our hunting dogs safe and away from danger, in this case it happened way too fast. While running a young pointing dog on wild birds, I noticed the pup working a large prickly pear
Have some Faith!
You and your dog put the time into training, and you are ready to hunt wild birds. You need to be in-control & in-charge as your dog works, but also you need to have faith in your dog’s ability in
Got a jingle, then start singing it!
A technique we use to help our dogs recall. Our pointing dogs are trained to recall to a whistle, beep tone, pressure and yodeling or singing. We incorporated this recall technique years ago after seeing it used vs recalling with