Teaching your dog to use its nose to the best effect can be relatively simple, especially if you teach it from a young age. The best time to teach a dog to use the wind effectively is when you are walking it in relatively open ground, and working the dog upwind. Let the dog off [...]

What makes a great hunting dog? Dogs, as with many things in life, can all too often be subject to fashion; and over a lifetime fashion can change a breed beyond recognition. But this is not a new thing. I have just been reading my copy of ‘Dog Breaking’ by Hutchinson. In it he talks [...]

This sounds a simple question, but to my mind it actually requires three different answers. The first answer I would give is one hour. That amount of time will be sufficient for someone who knows what they are doing to get to assess the dog; see him or her with their owner and identify a [...]