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 […]

Back in the the late 1990s Bill McFadden introduced me to Earl Crangle and helped us publish Earl’s book Pointing Dogs: Their Training and Handling.  One of the chapters in the book is titled “The Mexico Method” in which Earl describes his program of running young dogs on the abundant wild quail in Central Mexico […]

The outside temperature a little after 6:00 am Friday morning in Red Barn. The cool August mornings made it really good for running dogs this past week and with high temps in the low 70s I’ve been able to run longer into the middle of the day.  We’ve developed about a four day rotation on […]

Between working a truckload of dogs everyday and a washout on Friday, we had to rescue Big Thud and his RV Saturday evening which meant we didn’t get to eat the lobsters he brought until after 10 pm.  All the dogs are making progress here at camp.  The one disappointment of the summer is the […]