In the mornings we’ve been working all the dogs and working on the kennel afternoons. Saturday our efforts finally showed progress as we got up the pre-framed walls. Some training pictures from this week follow. the banner at the top of the post shows Wild Apple Samantha (left) backing Wild Apple Polka Dot.
Sometime, 20 plus years ago, I wrote an article for Pointing Dog Journal, that described how to use an e-collar on a dogs flank to reinforce the “whoa” command. To the best of my knowledge that was the first time that topic had been addressed in the sporting dog media. Since that time the use of […]
In 2002, fall was fast approaching and our new house was just being completed. I needed to do something to move the dogs to the new place and cobbled together a four-run Scott kennel for the dogs I had at the time. i had every intention of building an actual kennel as soon as time […]
Even though the new kennel is behind schedule, all the dogs for the summer program will be here by this afternoon. They range in age from Zephyr who’s a 7 month old English setter puppy to Brandy and Sam who will be shooting dogs in the fall. Once the new kennel is built we’ll be […]