Transitioning from bird in the yard to thicker cover will help prepare the pup for those first forays in the woods. And one more gun. While I waited for Beverly to return home, I was thinking of [...]
By Bob and Jody Iler Back in our September 2021 column, we wrote “The Silent Whoa – Steadying Your Dog” – showing how the whoa command is crucial to the advanced training involved in steadying [...]
By Bob and Jody Iler No one sets out to train his pointing dog and create problems in the process! As trainers, we’ve had the advantage of working with many dogs and dealing with a lot of issues. [...]
“Thank you for posting this information,” Martha commented on Facebook. “Our pointer ‘Liz’ was diagnosed with blastomycosis in the femur through a bone biopsy in 2019. She has been on medication [...]
By Bob and Jody Iler Pointing dog owners love their pups and want to develop them into top notch bird dogs. They are eager to learn and try different methods of training. Sometimes, though, this [...]
Something Old, Something New Fans of the traditional side-by-side are an interesting group. Some are traditionalists to the point that they have both feet planted firmly in pre-World War II [...]
by Steve Smith We go hunting, many of us, partly to get away from it all. Just us and our dogs and acres and acres of uninhabited prairie or creek bottom or clearcut. Unless we’re, I don’t know, [...]
by Tom Davis, Editor-at-Large In A Hunter’s Road, Jim Fergus’s acclaimed chronicle of the 17,000-mile wingshooting odyssey he undertook in 1990-’91, there’s a passage in which he relates a [...]
Of all the important “firsts” that your pointing dog pup will experience, his first season will be the one most profound, the one most instrumental in his development as a bird dog. Here are some [...]
Q: My dog started off well during the season in terms of conditioning, but now, he seems not to be able to go as long during the day when we pheasant hunt. With cooler temperatures, [...]
