(As Wednesday is a school day here and the dogs get a break I thought I’d post this article from the Summer 2006 Issue of FIELD TRIAL MAGAZINE. We will be utilizing the bird field a lot in the coming weeks and I’ll let you know how it progresses) As summer will soon be upon […]
Over the years I’ve spent many days with a wide variety of dog trainers — attending seminars, interviewing them for articles and just hanging out as they worked dogs. The list includes all three of the Tracy’s (George, Mike, and Jeanette), Buddy Smith, George Hickox, Scott Chaffee, Rick Smith, Bob Wehle and Earl Crangle, and […]
I know that many of Big Thudd’s pictures from the weekend have already been plastered around the internet. But there were a few I wanted to share with you. The Grouse below was walking in the road and let us drive right up to it. It Finally flushed when Tony yelled from his truck as he […]
Tony and Thudd rolled in about 8:30 this morning ready to work dogs. We put six dogs in my truck and headed for the woods. We were trying to avoid the covers we normally train in and really didn’t expect to find many birds today. The fact that we found as many as we did […]