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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
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