Shooting Times Dog of the Week Competition
Enter the Shooting Times Dog of the Week competition and be in with a chance of having your dog featured in the magazine! How to enter Simply click the link below to submit a photograph of your dog....
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Safe gundog travel: why you must restrain your dog in the car
Travelling with an unrestrained dog is not only a breach of the Highway Code but also a serious risk. Both your dog and passengers could suffer injury or worse in an accident. Legal restraints such as...
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The vital role of gundogs in driven game shooting
The Irreplaceable Role of Gundogs Gundogs play a vital and irreplaceable role in driven game shooting, whether as peg dogs, in the beating line or on the picking-up team. They are part of the very...
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Voices in the forest: meet the Transylvanian hound
Long before we saw the boar, we heard the hound. The sound came from somewhere deep below us in the beechwoods, carried uphill through the damp November air. It was not the frantic barking often heard...
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Five of the best summer gundog kit buys for hot-weather training
Summer is the ideal time to lay the foundations of a reliable gundog, but as temperatures climb, keeping both handler and dog comfortable becomes as important as the training itself. Lightweight,...
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Work with the breed: a smarter approach to gundog training
If you want to keep training challenges to a minimum, look at what the breed type was originally designed to do, then look at the dog in front of you. You might expect a gundog to be impervious to the...
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Cocker, springer or Labrador: which makes the best family dog?
Be it at a game fair, a client visit, or simply the supermarket queue, one question we are often asked is this: “Which breed makes the best family dog?” It is one of those wonderfully impossible...
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Teaching very old tricks to new dogs: gundog trainer John Cook at 80
There is a Labrador in John Cook’s kennels at the moment that he describes, without hesitation, as one of the most difficult dogs he has ever taken in. It comes out each morning with its tail up,...
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Out-of-control dogs: it’s best to act before the worst happens
We’ve all been there. We’re walking our well-behaved dogs when an uncontrolled lump of a canine charges at us, displaying body language indicative of wanting to blast us off the planet. Every district...
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A girls’ gundog training day at West Wycombe
Photographs: Melissa Bastin At the start of the summer, Amelia Kite, head of gundogs for The Country Girls UK, brought a group of handlers to the West Wycombe Estate for a full training day with me,...
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