Border to Border Bird Dogs
Manners and obedience training. Puppy development. Handling and steadiness for adult dogs.
Bird dogs with manners in the kennel, home, and field are a pleasure to interact with!
Sunday Feb 25 2024. Heavy fog, started at daylight. Challenging dog work, running birds, relocating, flew em all without a fumble. Not warm but hot by 9am. Quit at 11 to end our season. Extremely proud of what this crew accomplished.
Puppy instincts. Love it. Yesterday on the Jones Alta Vista Ranch. Pointer getting called “Alta”, setter “Vista”.
Litter pick from our two Males, Kofi and Wibaux.
Sharing positive thoughts for 2024. Patience, long video. This is the stuff that makes one want to get up in the morning.
12/29/2023
Once again found my water bowl right where I left it
12/14/2023
Questionable bird numbers keeping me apprehensive for the first Quail hunt of the season. All about covey finds and the experienced dogs shine. Half, full, and half day results in the book. Thank you Jones Ranch for the opportunity!
Slow covey rise, with timing an expert shooter could have dropped a pair in one!
New kid making his pitch for A squad
11/11/2023
The Traveling Wingshooter
magazine, September 2006.
Familiar to anyone?
Cleaning out our closet and getting sidetracked……
Learning….Gandy
09/14/2023
The trees are talking
09/09/2023
If wheels could talk
Good morning,
Aired and settled. Relaxed, ready to learn. I’ll be forever grateful to Ronnie Smith, Rick Smith, Sonny Piekarz, Greg Fryar…………
July and August in N Texas, 106 actual temp yesterday, predicting 109 today. Installed a couple 38$ misting lines from Amazon. Video is from yesterday at 106.
06/01/2023
Good morning America!
Thanking the dog world for the opportunities gifted.
(and Greg for knocking down the pesky mosquito population)
05/15/2023
Turning green in North Dakota
04/30/2023
Looks nice but nothing there except for lingering pigeon scent from previous stop to flush work. He was ignored, left to make his own decision to move on.
04/30/2023
Traffic backed up at the Spot
04/17/2023
Just what I needed, a break from my routine, shake out the cobwebs. Spent the weekend at a dog trial watching the pros handle their dogs.
Was a time I wanted absolutely no part of those “outlaw trial dogs”. Times have changed. Watching and listening to the conversations, the encouragement, given to us folk who don’t play the game is special. The hunting Birddog men and women who are doubting or writing off trial dogs as junk are missing out on a wonderful opportunity to observe and learn.
I had many reasons to stay away, lack of time was a big one. But even bigger was a lack of confidence in my abilities to compete. Fear? Intimidation? Foolish on my part. What I’m trying to say to the wild bird dog hunters is you’ll never find “the hunt” that you’re looking for at a dog trial. However you’ll see and meet a few dogs that will take your breath away. The intensity! The focus! The run that looks chaotic but isn’t! And you’ll meet some wonderful folk. Also you’ll leave knowing your own dog will still out hunt the trial dog on your turf?
Monday morning putting the puppies back to work! After two days siting in their desks, watching the horses, the people, Cline’s magic bus, they are exhausted. I had to wake em up this morning.
Favorite quote from my dad “life is worth the effort”. I agree.
Trey Garza Jenny Wetterstrom
Your pup has some style, and she’s fond of the mechanical dog.
SLO-MO
Long weekend we flew 32 coveys for the high bidder, elderly couple, Texas Parks and Wildlife fundraiser.
Crisp dog work, without a fumble. Put the same 4 dogs to work late Monday morning for the couple who arranged the hunt. Rolled a zero……go figure…..
Thank you…..
Decade ago while attending a Ronnie Smith Kennel seminar, gentleman named Delmar Smith asked if I had thanked my dog as I loaded him into Ronnie’s truck after a decent run. How do you thank a dog? Verbal praise? Hands massaging physically? Slight touch to the shoulders? Delmar’s answer was a smile, eye contact, and “you’ll know what they need. Just a light touch, not to much”.
This video from last week’s exercise run reminded me. Seven year old Llewellin Wibaux with the find. Took a few minutes to walk to him, flush the birds, and we connect. This dog likes eye contact, his eyes melt as I walk to him. My body language is in the zone, relaxed, confident, grateful, humble, he senses the job well done as I thank him and my teacher emotionally. No words or touch necessary.
Eventually I’ll get to do the flushing………
Love it
12/24/2022
We have the best pet sitter on the planet. Rebecca Randal thank you for the beautiful photo. Happy holidays to all from South Texas and Minnesota!
Yearling Jack showing some style……
Kofi and Bella getting it done……
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