Saturday’s Trial

I’ve been working with bird dogs for about 30 years now and have had the good fortune to have four really exceptional dogs to go along with many good ones.   The first was a setter that Lloyd Murray of Long Gone Kennels gave me named Stokely’s Diablo Buddy he came from a litter that […]

Mid-Winter Update

It seems hard to believe that half the winter has gone by.  January was great for working dogs and was capped by a great hunting trip with Tim to Kansas.  Now were getting ready for field trials here in Kentucky and have been able to work around a couple of snow storms.  Although there was […]

We’re Not In Kansas Anymore

  Tim K. and I went out to Kansas to hunt the last three days of the season with Cal Robinson of http://kansasquailhunts.com. We had 11 dogs with us including the new puppy Wild Apple Guinevere.  The weather was perfect except for Saturday afternoon when it was really a little too hot to run the setters […]

Back in Kentucky

I arrived in Kentucky last Friday with six dogs for our winter training.  Ten minutes into the first run on Saturday Spot and Sam were into a wild covey that was out feeding in one of the many vegetable plots on the farm I train on.  The farm is 450 acres that is used primarily […]