Once you own your first bird dog, bird hunting is never the same. It becomes deeper, richer, and more fully engaging. If you had to decide between bringing your dog and bringing your gun on a hunt, ...

He bought his first hunting dog, a Brittany spaniel, at the age of 17 and was hooked. Totten eventually became more interested in waterfowl hunting, got a Labrador retriever and started competing in ...

I love gun dogs, which means I wouldn’t walk a pheasant or quail field or sit in a blind without one. Dogs make every hunt. On some days they cast perfectly and handle every bird with ease. On others ...

ROBERTS, Idaho — Prior to the turn of the last century, a group of hunting dogs developed in Europe came to be known as versatile dogs. These dogs were created to point to both fur and feathered game, ...

Boy Howdy quivers all over with anticipation, waiting for owner and handler George Vuillemont to unleash him. Once free, the dog explodes into the tall grass, stopping for a fraction of a second here ...

The No.1 Brittany gun dog in the United States for 2012 was born and trained in Bozeman. Six years ago, breeder Tana Kradolfer’s dog gave birth to what would become Beaver’s Straight Arrow. She and ...

FOREST CITY — Cindy Findley of Clear Lake has owned dogs (“or rather, dogs have owned me,” she says) since 1975. She has been to dozens of American Kennel Club (AKC) field trials as a dog handler and ...

SHEPHERD - In 1970, a Pennsylvania professor moved his life to Montana. His intentions were to hunt and fish. He was, after all, an outdoors kind of guy. He bought a Labrador retriever, then another ...

Every year, thousands of hunting dogs go to professional trainers across the country. Many are puppies – youngsters full of promise and potential. Some are veteran sporting dogs that need a tune-up, ...

Oct. 16—KNOX — Camie Barrow was just an urban dog owner strolling through Boston Common when she saw her new puppy tormenting and chasing pigeons. Clancy, an English springer spaniel from a ...