Training vs Testing
I often invite my clients or dog sport friends to join me for training days at the kennel. We are normally going full tilt boogie six days a week and can always use another set of hands. Some days there’s a pile of dogs
Carolina’s EB Gun Dog Club Field Trial (Oct 24-25)
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Why Clicker Train Your Gun Dog?
Let me just start by saying that there is power in reward based training systems. To deny that in the modern era is foolish. Many (maybe most) accomplished working dog trainers around the world employ some sort of lure/reward system as a foundation on
What Makes Our Pointing Dogs Do the Things They Do?
Prey drive is defined as: The instinctive inclination of a carnivore to find, stalk, pursue, capture, and kill prey. When we ask our pointing dogs to perform in the field we are leaning on their inherent desire to perform these individual functions of prey
Let’em Roll
“Can’t push a rope up hill.” “You can teach whoa, but you can’t teach go.” “Easier to peel it off than to put it on.” These are just a few of the cliches I’ve heard about starting pups over the years. This sort of