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Grouse Trial Primer Part Six
The Rope One way to control a young dog around birds is with the bellyband. By putting an e-collar on the dogs flank during heel and whoa drills in the yard you can transition from the lead to the collar rather quickly. Then, when the dog is in the woods it’s easy to push the […]
Where Angels Fear to Tread
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. […]
Grouse Trial Primer Part Five
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 […]
Grouse Trial Primer Part Four
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 […]