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Tucked quietly into the Northeastern corner of South Dakota is Aberdeen, an unsuspecting city of some 26,000 that you may…»

Flushing-on-command

Problem: I have a 1-year-old female yellow Lab. She retrieves well, has good distance control and knows commands. When hunting…»

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The game of “hide and seek” often comes to mind when I’m duck hunting. It seems that in the field,…»

Flat-coated-retriever_001

Once upon a time, when English gamekeepers reigned supreme on the estates of the nobility, they needed a dog that…»

Dog-in-truck_001

Most of us who own bird dogs also own a truck to haul them around in. But dogs left to…»

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Lately, it’s become fashionable in more obscure quarters to adopt a laissez-faire approach to dog training, as if any pointing…»

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If your little dog can find that goose, you can keep the bird,” the waterfowl hunter told Doug Lodermeier, who,…»

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Using your spaniel for jump shooting ducks is a good way to supplement your upland game bag. My favorite spot…»

Dog-training_001

August is a tough month for training gun dogs. Sure, most of us are fired up by the coming of…»

Great-dog_001

My friend Tony’s setter is nothing special to look at. She’s short, with a slightly pushed up nose, as if…»

Curly-coated-retriever_001

Three roosters and two hens had just flown from an unpicked cornfield across the road into a tract of seven-foot-tall…»

Water-spaniel_001

Finally—although unexpectedly—the decades-long classification controversy within the American Water Spaniel Club (AWSC) has ended with an almost beyond-belief win-win outcome.…»

Bart_001

Bart is a handsome vizsla, red and sinewy with a proud carriage and docile eyes. He is much like any…»

American-cocker_001

In the late 1980s, when I began running dogs in and judging AKC’s non-competitive hunting tests for spaniels, I experienced…»

Cleaning-eyes_feature

A bird dog can put in a long, tough day. By the end of a hunt, he may be squinting…»

Retriever_001

Hunting seasons come slowly and vanish quickly. After one vanishes, we can clean/oil our shotguns and put them away until…»

Point-training_001

If I have a guiding principle in the realm of training dogs; it’s that it’s far more a process of…»

wetdogs

The Banfield Pet Hospital in Portland, Ore., the world’s largest veterinary practice, just released its State of Pet Health report,…»

The author with her 2-year-old golden retriever

Ever had your eye wiped by someone else’s dog? You don’t want to, believe me. It’s humiliating! It almost happened…»

Weimaraner_001

The Weimaraner, from the beginning of its breed history more than 100 years ago, has been known as the “Gray…»

Dog-with-pheasant

Those of you who are old enough to remember training dogs without electronic devices also probably remember the bad old…»

Labs_001

A lot of great photos come across our desks here at Gun Dog, and our special Labradors edition was certainly…»

Llewellin-setter_001

There’s no sight more classic than a pair of gun dogs working a gamebird with one dog pointing and the…»

German pointing dog

Why bother testing puppies? You might say, “Those tests look so easy I don’t see the benefit; seems like a…»

Pheasant in field

You’ve got a good dog. He stays focused and understands what’s going on,” said Sal Roseland, owner of R&R Pheasant…»