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Part III: Training a dog for the Dakotas
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsThis is the third installment in a series titled Dakota Dog. We will examine how to prepare your dog for this special area of our country … the Dakotas.
Story | Conversation | June 28, 2006Dakota dog: The prairie-pothole retriever
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsThis is the first article in a series titled Dakota Dog. We will examine how to prepare the retriever and flushing dog to meet the challenges of this special area of our country … the Dakotas.
Story | Conversation | January 03, 2006Q&A: Increasing marking ability
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsMike Stewart answers a users question about improving the marking ability of his Lab.
Story | Conversation | June 01, 2005Q&A: Chew toys, bird intros, delivery
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsMike Stewart answers questions about chew toys, bird introductions and delivery.
Story | Conversation | April 04, 2005Fur hunting the UK with retrievers, ferrets
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsTo pick fur, either rabbits or squirrels, with your retriever really only takes a bit of additional training. I can think of numerous times rabbit hunting over beagles that a nice retriever that could track wounded game and handle over water would have been welcomed.
Story | Conversation | August 10, 2004Training for the Irish Internationals
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsTime is short for the US Gundog Team to depart for the international gundog tests in the beautiful Irish isles. We depart Houston, Texas on May 17th flying directly to Gadwick International, England. When we land we will be the first gundog group from the United States to enter the UK to compete in history Let me briefly summarize a few of the training steps our team took in preparing to meet some of the best game-finding teams in the world on their own turf. Prestigious teams from Scotland, N. Ireland, England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland are preparing to give us the run of our lives at the International Game Fair in Des Moirnes, N. Ireland.
Story | Conversation | April 15, 2004Q&A with a professional dog trainer
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsMike Stewart answers question about shock collars, crate training, pigeons, puppies dropping retrieves
Story | Conversation | April 15, 2004Balance in training: Part 3, The counter skill
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsNow, we are ready to add an important part of a balanced daily training cycle, the counter skill. A counter skill is one that involves an exercise or task requiring the young retriever to use skills that differ from those utilized to complete the primary training session of the day.
Story | Conversation | March 31, 2004Q&A with a professional dog trainer
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsMike Stewart has nearly 30 years of experience breeding and training sporting dogs and is currently training Drake, the official Labrador retriever of Ducks Unlimited. To learn more about Wildrose Kennels and the training methodology used by Mike, visit www.uklabs.com. If you have a training question, email Mike and he may answer your question in an upcoming column.
Story | Conversation | March 26, 2004Q&A with a professional dog trainer
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsMike Stewart has nearly 30 years of experience breeding and training sporting dogs and is currently training Drake, the official Labrador retriever of Ducks Unlimited. To learn more about Wildrose Kennels and the training methodology used by Mike, visit www.uklabs.com. If you have a training question, email Mike and he may answer your question in an upcoming column.
Story | Conversation | February 16, 2004Q&A with a professional dog trainer
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsMike Stewart, owner of Wildrose Kennels near Oxford, Miss., offers dog training advice to the users of ESPNOutdoors.com
Story | Conversation | August 27, 2003Delivery to hand, part I
Mike Stewart, Owner/trainer Wildrose KennelsA desirable attribute of a good waterfowl retriever is the smooth delivery to hand of downed game which is neither mangled, crushed or partially plucked by our canine hunting pal. Both style and function dictate that retrievers not incessantly drop bumpers or birds on the return. A gundog with a sloppy mouth attempting to deal with a lightly pricked drake mallard or pheasant will interrupt the hunt with an unnecessary frolick possibly culminating in a lost bird. Developing a dog that consistently delivers to hand is largely a matter of conditioning
Story | Conversation | August 12, 2003
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