NBD started dogs for sale.
We have three extremely nice dogs for sale. Two of them are out of Blue Silk and one is out of Blue Blossom. Please visit our started dogs page for more information.
Good stuff about puppies
- A pointing dog’s first hunting season!
- Bird and gun introduction
- Early development of puppies
- How to correct a dog
- How to pet a dog
- How to pick a puppy
- Patience and puppies
- Picking puppies: the unimportance of picking order
- Puppies and fireworks
- Puppy buying mistakes
- Raising puppies at Northwoods Bird Dogs
- The pointing instinct
- Training puppies on a stakeout chain
Good stuff from previous posts
Finer points on…
- A brace of bird dogs
- Accuracy of location
- Bird finding
- How to flush grouse and woodcock
- Hunting pattern
- Range
- Running grouse
- Scenting ability
- Speed and scenting
- To point a bird, first a dog has to find it
- Trust your dog
- Using grouse dogs on pheasants
Training
- A bump or a knock
- Backing point
- Bird dog basics: hunt, handle, point birds
- Bumping grouse
- Electronic training collars…a little perspective
- How to correct a dog
- How to pet a dog
- Patience and puppies
- The pointing instinct
- Transition to wild birds
- Unproductive points
- WHOA and NO
Breeding
- Dogs, not averages, matter in breeding
- Evaluating litters
- Pointers of Northwoods Bird Dogs
- Proper conformation
- The tail of a bird dog