If you look closely you can see that this grouse is looking back into the coveron the edge of the road where we saw seven chicks flush when we pulled up —there may have been more. It finally stopped raining today and we wanted to get out and check one of our regular training covers. […]
The Transition from Puppy to Derby The transition from puppy to derby is a little different in the cover dog trials than elsewhere in the field trial world. If you show up at a fall derby stake with a future horseback shooting dog than it better be broke. It doesn’t matter what the Guidelines say […]
Training a Cover Dog Trial Prospect Part B I guess the question I should answer is: “what should I do if I don’t live where there are lots of grouse and woodcock?” There are two things that many winning performances in the woods share and the obvious one is finding birds and the second is […]
Training a Cover Dog Trial Prospect Part A Let me start this part of the discussion by saying it is my opinion that you can definitely hunt your cover dog competitors, but it’s hard to win a cover dog trial with your hunting dog. Ch. Wild Apple Jack, Ch. Stokely’s Ginger B, Ch. Mr. Ted […]