Author: birddogdoc
Have bird dogs...will travel. I enjoy chasing my setters and FB English Cocker in wide open spaces. (Fly fishing is something to get me between the bird dog seasons!)When not chasing my bird dogs, I'm thinking, reading or writing about bird dogs! The perfect day to me is hunting upland birds with my brother Andy in the bird rich Uplands of Idaho! There's nothing better than dogs on point and puppy breath! I love the tradition associated with upland gunning and birddogs. I'm also a classic America double gun enthusiast...nothing like carrying a 100+ y/o smooth bore on the short-grass prairie.
>Chukar Memories and a New MacBook
>This post is actually a testing post today from my new Apple Computer… MacBook. This will be the very first time I’ve ever used an Apple Computer! I was supposed to go shoot sporting clays this morning, but ended up finding myself at the local Best Buy getting a new home computer so that I…
>In the Company Of a Gentleman…or Pavlov’s Dogs
>Robert Ruark once wrote that a person can learn a lot about life while watching dogs and that it never hurts to be in the presence of a true gentleman…it might just rub off! With all the woes and throes about stimulating the US economy, I decided to take Ruark’s advice and headed east along…
>Equine Dentistry…one of my other passions
>One of my passions as a veterinarian is equine dentistry. I get tons of satisfaction and reward from floating teeth! It’s pretty neat to see a horse improve in performance and weight gain after I’ve worked on their teeth. Below are some photos of a horse that I recently worked on. You’ll notice by my…
Quilomene Co. & Desert Dogs
A good friend and client of mine told me a great story last year… He was hunting in Southern Arizona’s Mearn’s Country…they’d been hunting hard all day in those steep, slippery, gaud-awful rocky draws and were exhausted as they emerged from the nasty thickets. A stranger was standing next to their vehicle waiting to discuss…
>Filson’s Shooting Bag
>This is my favorite piece of equipment while pursuing quail on the heartland prairies. Below are the details per Filson’s website. I’ve had several of them…they’re virtually indestructible too! I have carried water for the dogs, shells and 3 roosters and 8 quail in my bag for several hours on a glorious day in NC…
>Paraphimosis and C&H Pure Cane Sugar
>Last week a 16 week old Pointer pup presented to my clinic with a condition termed paraphimosis…which is a condition where a male dog has the inability to retract his penis into the preputial sheath or prepuce. I’ve only seen a handful of these dogs over the last 12 years. This was the worst one…minus…
>Twenty-Four Coveys and the Final Hoorah!!
>Gary Ruppel and I headed to Kansas at 0’dark-thirty Thursday morning to chase birds in great quail country for the final weekend. It was great to say the least. We loaded his dog trailer with a mixture of 10 bird dogs from Labs to Pointers to setters to what he called a “novelty”…my FB English…
>ONCE MORE INTO THE THROWS…
>Author John Taylor and my son Dylan in Southern Kansas chasing Scaled Quail…John is doing field research for his up and coming new book “Autumn Prairie”When in Rome…I laugh every time I look at this photo…Casey had a great quail dog he’d run down the burrow ditch looking for coveys on a very busy 55…
>Chasing Birds with Sterling Part the Second
>Sterling and I made a whirl-wind trip to Kansas Wednesday night to chase quail for the day…what a day we had. We moved 9 coveys in 8 hours of hunting…we kept joking that the stars we aligned right for us! Here are a few photos from our day! Gretchen backing Gep!!! Sterling and BJ the…
>Nothing Gold Can Stay by robert frost
>This is a photograph of the most precious gift I’ve ever been given by a client as a veterinarian. This photograph does not do the beauty of it justice! This gift came to me by the way of a loss of a gelding that was most dear to her…he was gently laid to rest last…
>BIRDDOGGIN’ DAYS
>The girls and I have made many great memories this year chasing birds! I wanted to share something I experienced this weekend…the poorest form of sportsmanship I’ve ever witnessed! Mark Volk wrote a story about some guys from another hunting party walking in on someones dog on point and shooting the grouse when it flushed….
Upland Ways 