No I’m not talking about the dog’s performances this morning, although they were pretty darn good considering the conditions. Last week we had two mornings in the high 30s and it was great for working dogs. This morning as I loaded up before 6:00 the temperature was already pushing 60 and the humidity was reported […]
The first of the puppies left yesterday. Peanut (aka Birdy / Wild Apple Blackbird) headed out to Montana with Alex Rickert who was here last fall and hunted with us and decided one of the Wild Apple dogs would be just the ticket to hunt the six species of gamebirds in Montana. She’s still a […]
Big Thudd was here for the weekend and we got a lot of dogs run Saturday and Sunday with everybody getting into birds. Alex Rickert and his family arrived yesterday to pick-up Peanut at the end of their East Coast vacation and are flying her back to Montana so they’ll have her for the hun, […]
It’s been a somewhat disappointing summer for grouse. We’ve had plenty of grouse contacts but they’ve been a lot of single birds and relatively small broods with 3 to 4 chicks on the average with an occasional brood of five and one of seven. Today Peanut pointed and then took a couple steps and three […]