I was duck hunting with a friend of mine this past December. He brought along a young lab that he trained on his own because he wanted to give it some experience on the water. His lab, cypher, was pretty good at retrieving, however, he wanted to retrieve more than just the ducks. He had a bad habit of also wanting to bring in the decoys. This actually a common problem with dogs that are trained by someone that is not a professional, but is a problem that can be easily avoided and even corrected. …Read_More;»»»»

Last year I was out visiting a friend of mine who was developing his own bird hunting preserve. While I was looking at his kennels the discussion came up about hunting dogs versus family pets. It is his firm belief that a hunting dog is a working dog and that a family pet will never make a good hunting dog.


Most of you have seen my posts and articles around where I have talked about my hunting dogs. …Read_More;»»»»

Everything you have read; Everything you have heard; Everything inside you knows that you can not find a good hunting dog at the local dog shelter. Well, at least that is what I thought until I met ginger. …Read_More;»»»»