Game bird hunters depend on their dogs. Each dog is carefully trained to sniff out the birds, vigilantly sending them to flight and then watching intently as their masters take a shot. When birds are ...

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, ...

HELENA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced a bird-dog training license is required for people training bird dogs with wild birds or "birds not raised in captivity." Officials say if ...

Thistle, who was co-owned by Julie Harris of Hermon and Ann Short of Acton, demonstrates one of the exercises Julie used with her to teach retrieving from the water and retrieving to hand. The ball ...

Sassy, owned by Julie Harris of Hermon, is letting Harris know she is ready to run on Moosehead Lake. Credit: Julie Harris Most bird dog training equipment is really static and maybe even rigid in how ...

The whole scenario was just one set of tests part of the Helena Valley Gun Dog Club’s weekend of field training for bird dogs. Bramblett, who has been a member of the club for about five years, was ...

Do you realize that dogs are known to have a keen sense of smell 1,000 times more sensitive than man? This remarkable evolutionary development enables a dog to smell and locate a game bird like a ...

There are more designated bird dog training areas in South Carolina than residents may realize, and a state agency has just added three more to the list. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources lists ...

The Spokane Bird Dog Association is conducting a new bird hunter clinic at its Medical Lake training grounds on Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. “If you’re at all unsure, come out and see if upland ...