Species: View Product Filters Showing 337-348 of 390 results Puppy Steps (Part 2) Last month, in Part 1 of Puppy Steps, we covered genetics, gestation and the first two weeks of a puppy’s life; this included the opening of the puppy’s eyes. In Part 2, we’ll cover from the third week until the puppy leaves for its new home. Weeks two through six Read More Tick Prevention When enjoying outdoor activities, don’t forget to take steps to prevent bites from ticks that share the outdoors. Read More Puppy Steps (Part 1) You’ve made a deposit and you want your puppy. At what age should the breeder allow the litter to be separated and go to their new home? Your author is a member of several hunting dog Facebook forums and sees this topic frequently debated. Everyone has an opinion. Five weeks, Read More Care Tips For Pet Rabbits Some bunny out there wants to be a part of your family—but he has special requirements to stay happy and healthy. Here’s what to do. Read More Starting Flowers and Vegetables Seedlings Inside Start now to have your seedlings ready for spring! Read More Using Place Boards Get five pro trainers in a room and you’ll get five different answers to a training question; and they all could be right. The use or non-use of place boards in training bird dogs is one of those questions that could produce five different answers. In this article, we’re going Read More How Old is My Dog? How old is my dog? Your author recently received an email from a young man saying he couldn’t afford to buy a hunting dog so he adopted a German shorthair pointer from a shelter. The shelter told him they thought it was about one year old but not sure. His Read More Generalize Your Dog Last fall, your writer met a young man in Maine who was on his first season of grouse hunting and the first for his young Brittany. Hearing from young hunters and their experiences is always fun. The young man said his dog was locating and pointing birds fine but wasn’t Read More Soybean Meal and Protein in the Horse Diet Learn about the importance of protein in you horses’ diet and gain a better understanding of what factors determine the quality of the protein, such as amino acids, digestibility, and processing. Read More Developing The Point Recently, I was asked if I would take a look at the bird work of a one-year-old Vizsla. The owner had very good luck force breaking the dog to fetch but was having serious problems with pointing. I’m not a professional trainer, however; I’ve watched many accomplished trainers at work Read More Neuter Your Dog? Whether to neuter our young dogs is a difficult question for many dog owners. I’ve mentioned in this column before that my father was a veterinarian. We had a separate kennel just for our sporting dogs, and it was always full of setters and beagles. Dad never neutered any of Read More First Year Pup The glory time has arrived…hunting season. How sweet it is. And the good news is that the grouse and woodcock numbers are very promising from Minnesota to Maine. Several professional trainers who began training dogs on wild birds in late July have reported two or three times the flushes compared to the same Read More < FIRST1....10....20....2728293031....33LAST >
