Hunting Dogs - Dogs Breeds

By following the directions that come with these training tools and by exercising common sense, most any dog owner can use an e-collar to reinforce all commands any dog learns through conventional teaching methods and with standard training tools such as a check cord. In fact, many dog owners and professional trainers see the e-collars as a mile long check cord that reaches out to remind any dog of what it already knows.

Dummies and Dummy Launchers
Training tools for dogs that hunt waterfowl have made some major changes particularly in new kinds of retriever dummies and dummy launchers. Though the standard tube-shaped retriever dummy, made from rubber or canvas is still popular, new types of retrieving devices are now available in a variety of shapes, colors, sizes, and functions. There are retrieving dummies in the form of game birds with the look, weight, feel, and even the odor of real waterfowl ranging from little teal to giant Canada honkers. Some dummies have fabric streamers on them to replicate the sight and sound of ducks or geese falling from the sky.

Dummy launchers include the type powered by a 22 caliber shell that can project a dummy over 100 yards with a “bang” sure to get attention and to develop the enthusiasm of any retriever. Spring-loaded, box-style, manually or remotely activated launchers are available to throw dummies, dead game birds, or live game birds for great distances as a way for a single dog owner to train without an assistant.

Modern Dog Food
Compared to dog food 25 years ago, today’s products are light years ahead of what they used to be mainly because the dog food makers know so much more about animal nutrition. Dog food or dry kibbles, the main form of food for a majority of waterfowl hunting dogs, is a balanced and complete source of nutrition that can keep any dog healthy and from puppy-hood through adulthood and into old age.

Look on the list of ingredients on any bag of dog food from the major manufacturers and you will see dozens of key nutrients, all designed to give needed energy and necessary additives for a good daily life and healthy long life. Protein from real meat (chicken, beef, lamb), fat in high quality and in balanced quantity, carbohydrates (from grain and other sources) along with a variety of vitamins, minerals, and other health products (glucosamine and chrondrotin, probiotics, omega-3 fatty acids, and antioxidants) – all come together to make an ideal food source calibrated by scientific research and development. Because of all this, our dogs may eat and might thrive better than their owner does.

Medicine And Veterinary Care
Canine medicine, likewise, has come a long way in the past 25 years with many major dog disorders and diseases now under control. Medications are now extremely effective for internal parasites including hook, tape, round, and heart worms and external parasites such as fleas and ticks that carry a variety of diseases. Likewise, distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, rabies, and other once commonly devastating health issues have been nearly irradicated by modern vaccines.

Pain control for canines has also been advanced so that the discomfort and suffering of joint, ligaments, and muscle disorders and diseases can be successfully treated with over the counter and prescribed medications. Even psychological problems such as canine anxiety attacks can be treated with modern drugs and veterinary care.

To be continued…

Source: WildFowlMag.com

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