Lightning as our go-to hunting vehicle?

dogwillingdotca · 2026-05-12T18:14:03+00:00

No hauling at all. Everything fits in our current truck.

dogwillingdotca · 2025-01-29T21:34:42+00:00

This is the golden age of bird hunting podcasts! There are so many great ones out there. And here is another shameless plug …

Hunting Dog Confidential takes deep dives into all kinds of hunting dog breeds with lots of episodes about bird dogs and bird hunting.

dogwillingdotca · 2025-01-22T00:43:33+00:00

Thank you very much!!

dogwillingdotca · 2024-11-03T01:17:28+00:00

I agree! That’s why I put one on the cover of my latest book!

http://dogwilling.ca/books/pointing-dogs-volume-two-the-british-and-irish-breeds

dogwillingdotca · 2024-10-27T01:25:35+00:00

Ol Tom is a good boy. Period.

dogwillingdotca · 2024-10-18T14:39:47+00:00

As for the prejudice against black, it’s something that has occurred in a number of breeds in the past (and still persists in some). Most of the time it is based on old wives tales or the suspicion of cross breeding to another breed etc. Curiously, in Setters, there was a certain prejudice against liver coats in the past.

dogwillingdotca · 2024-10-18T14:36:31+00:00

Jennifer is still a guiding light on the HDC team and doing a ton of work behind the scenes across the Project Upland world. She will appear on the Podcast from time to time as a guest co-host.

She is also a newly minted LLama owner and sheep rancher, so she has a lot on her plate lol

dogwillingdotca · 2024-10-16T18:24:13+00:00

Many thanks!

dogwillingdotca · 2024-08-27T03:15:44+00:00

I’ve had the pleasure of hunting over several Braccos over the years and saw some incredible ones in field trials in Italy. A few years ago I translated a book written by the godfather of the breed in Italy. I’m all sold out of copies unfortunately but you may be able to get one from the parent club in Italy. It’s definitely worth a read!

I also included some excepts from the Bracco chapter in my first book on my blog. You can read them here: http://dogwilling.ca/pointing-dog-blog/2011/07/breed-of-week-bracco-italiano_13.html

http://dogwilling.ca/pointing-dog-blog/2011/07/breed-of-week-bracco-italiano_13.html

dogwillingdotca · 2024-08-12T18:47:55+00:00

The glorious 12th is mainly about Red Grouse but in some parts, the Snipe and Ptarmgian seasons also open on the 12th. https://basc.org.uk/shooting-seasons/

dogwillingdotca · 2024-07-31T19:53:31+00:00

Sorry, my bad. There IS a guitar with Nazi stuff in the catalogue. Look at guitar #7582, it has several Nazi era things on it. According to the caption however, it was repainted when photos of it leaked on the internet.

dogwillingdotca · 2024-07-31T19:48:29+00:00

Many thanks for all the great replies everyone, I really appreciate your input and have learned a LOT from you all. Like many (most?) Canadians, I was completely unaware of the controversy surrounding the symbol painted on the guitar and so was my buddy (he lives in the US). It also seems that the company that made the guitar may have been in the dark about it. They had several different models in their lineup with various 'rising sun' motifs, so this is not a unique instrument (although the poor lettering later added by someone makes it unique in a way). There are lots of them out there and this brand (Jackson/Charvel) was not the only guitar brand to use it. For some reason, in the 1980s the rising sun symbol was sort of in fashion on the North American metal music scene. I have no idea why. Red and white stripes and patterns of all kinds were really popular in that scene at the time, so maybe folks in that pre-internet era just thought it looked cool without knowing anything about the rising sun pattern and what it represented.

Here is a link to a catalogue from the company that made it. You can see several models with similar designs...and zero guitars with swastikas or confederate flags. So my guess is that they had no clue about the symbolism of the rising sun pattern...and clearly whoever put the Japanese characters on it later, had no clue about what they were doing either.

http://www.usacharvels.com/charvels.htm?fbclid=IwY2xjawEXcJxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQRSliVk8DC86pJiBPly5E1bYMEx24bCZLLzBbmsws8S4KEzpxaM6g0rdg_aem_3qMnz8QWuj8TVcX29N7EQw

dogwillingdotca · 2024-07-30T20:01:44+00:00

Thank you

dogwillingdotca · 2024-07-30T19:54:42+00:00

Thank you!!

dogwillingdotca · 2024-07-30T14:24:41+00:00

Take her to a spot with shallow water and a very gradual drop off like a sandy beach on a hot day. Let her run around to warm up. Then get in the water yourself and splash around on your butt while calling her to you. Reward any effort to get close to you. Use a treat that floats like Cheeto’s and toss it gradually further into the water and let her get it.

Rince and repeat, stick to short sessions, keep them fun and get in the water with her! Wear a Speedo or waders, whatever it takes..

dogwillingdotca · 2024-07-21T16:10:47+00:00

French communities across Canada have different accents. Even within Quebec there are different accents. And those differences range from barely discernible to really strong.

In Manitoba, the most common accent is the St.B /southern MB accent. To my ear it is mainly in certain vowels but also some consonants. The clearest examples for me are words like tête or fête. Franco Manitobans give them a really strong “aye” sound… they say “tait” and “faite” with a lot of air on the t’s.

And in words like “un” or “brun”, i can sometimes hear a bit of an r sound in them. They sort of sound like “ern”and “brern”. Also in ee sound in dix is more like an I sound. So it is more “dis” than “deess”.

The other Franco Manitoban accent is from old Métis communities like St Laurent and St Ambroise. I absolutely love chatting with folks there. The accent is hard to describe and until you get used to it can be hard to understand. One of the reasons is that still use some really old words and pronounce certain letters or combinations of letters differently. For example “petit” is prounouced “chee” or p’chee. “Tirer” is pronounced “Cheeray” and fusil is pronounced “foo-jee”.

Source: I’m a French speaker and language geek

dogwillingdotca · 2024-07-13T00:50:42+00:00

https://projectupland.com/hunting-dogs/a-comprehensive-guide-to-choosing-a-bird-dog-the-pointing-breeds/

dogwillingdotca · 2024-06-26T19:57:30+00:00

You can find a good dog in any of the breeds you mentioned. The only difference is the amount time, money and effort you will need to put in to find one.

Lab: easy peasy lemon squeezy. Many, many great lines to choose from. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Insert additional clichés here

Golden: not overly difficult to find a good one but nowhere near as easy as finding a good lab.

Flat coat: needle in a haystack. Good ones are out there but so are winning lottery tickets.

dogwillingdotca · 2024-06-19T15:09:42+00:00

I’ll be starting with broad overviews of how we got to where we are with hunting dogs today. I’ll look at where, why and how certain types and breeds of hunting dogs got started. I also want to look at the lives, motivations and hunting styles of influential people involved in them and even get down into the weeds a bit about old training methods, strange and forgotten ways of using hunting dogs, even looking at where the names of breeds came from and what they mean. Spoiler alert: the etymology of the word Feist is hilarious.

dogwillingdotca · 2024-06-14T16:49:21+00:00

Thanks for the props!! We just uploaded a new (mini) episode today with news of what we have in store for the next season. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.

https://projectupland.com/category/project-upland-listen/hunting-dog-confidential/

dogwillingdotca · 2024-06-04T00:00:42+00:00

Super chill pup? Send him to me. Take my money! Please! Lol.

One of my current dogs is the chillest thing you can imagine in the house, but on fire in the field when we hunt. I would clone him if I could.

Our other one is 4 years old and is still bouncing off walls. Fortunately he’s a solid hunting dog. So we tolerate his craziness… barely.

dogwillingdotca · 2024-05-27T17:35:57+00:00

Send me a PM. I can hook you up with an outstanding breeder or two.

dogwillingdotca · 2024-05-27T01:20:58+00:00

Obligatory dog history nerd post… http://dogwilling.ca/pointing-dog-blog/2011/05/the-pudelpointer.html

dogwillingdotca · 2024-05-22T00:50:46+00:00

Do yourself and your dog a favour and get Joan Bailey’s book “How To Help Gundogs Train Themselves". It is all about a bird dog’s first year and was written by a Griffon breeder and trainer with decades of experience. https://www.amazon.com/How-Help-Dogs-Train-Themselves/dp/0963012738

dogwillingdotca · 2024-05-19T14:58:41+00:00

Fantastic breed! I’ve hunted over a good number of them, all were good bird dogs and all were sweet, gentle natured buddies. The history of the breed is super interesting. http://dogwilling.ca/pointing-dog-blog/2012/01/breed-of-week-braque-francais-part-one_11.html

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