Growing up in Wisconsin that did a lot of hunting. Some of the most enjoyable thing we did was hunting bird hunting. When I look back on my childhood I remember my dad and my uncles always have some type of hunting dog around.

For us, where the man two types of bird dogs. We had the retriever, and pointer. The laboratory retrievers and retriever breeds. As it was there pointers setters, spaniels and.

We were never very big on whether a dog had a pedigree or papers. We were more interested in how the dog is made in the field. With this in mind we spent much time with the dogs in the field for training purposes.

We like going to my uncles empty silo at night and catch pigeons for training purposes. We would get dizzy bird then allow working dogs to track, point, then rinse the order. The good thing was that the birds fly and return to the silo again that night. Of course, this was for the training of our pointers.

When he reached the training of retrievers water or as I called them before. We would like a training dummy, a pair of rubber bands and old duck wing we had in the freezer. Use rubber bands to attach the wing to the dummy and leave the boat to a lake that we knew and throw the leg in a cat’s tail and send the dog after it.

We also want to shoot clay pigeons on the grass back from my uncles. By doing this, where we would take the dogs out there with us a way away from where the guns were going off. He played with the dogs. After the first couple of shots at the dogs did not even notice the explosions of the guns.

As the dogs grew knew that when the guns came out it was there time to go to work. You could feel the excitement radiating to the dogs, and contemplating the training or hunting trip.

Although bird dogs are working dogs where they where also part of the family.