5 Ways to Cool your Hot Dog A dog in hot weather will suffer from the heat if you don’t provide him with a way to get cool. Dogs don’t sweat like you, and the only way they can cool down naturally is by panting. Dogs who are cold weather dogs, like the Bernese Mountain […]
Weimaraner Hunting Dogs
Weimaraner hunting dogs are great companions, excellent hunters and they are swift and strong, and relentless in the chase.
Trained properly, your Weimaraner will be a reliable hunting partner who will be your best team player!
Dog Training Shock Collars
Dog training shock collars can help you train your dog for hunting or good manners, but you need to make sure that you know how to use this tool appropriately. Unfortunately the remote training dog collar got a bad rap in its early days (1960s) when it was used primarily to shock dogs as punishment. […]
Scent Training for Hunting Dogs
Scent training for hunting dogs depends on a number of factors like wind, humidity, ground condition and even the activity level of the birds being hunted. Training your young Weimaraner for hunting will include some training for tracking the game. Take your dog for training when there are different conditions, so he will be able […]
Dogs’ Sense of Smell
Your dogs sense of smell is 1000 times more sensitive than yours, and there are some very good reasons for this. While we know that dogs have an average of 220 million olfactory receptors, we only have 5 million. In fact, the Army Research and Development Center ran a study in 1985 that a dog’s […]
Blasto in Dogs
Blasto or North American Blastomycosis is a fungal infection that is most often found in young male dogs, especially hunting dogs, who spend lots of time outdoors. Sometimes seen in female dogs, blastomycosis most often affects younger male dogs that are between two and four years old. When female dogs are infected, they are more […]
Training Your Weimaraner Puppy to Hunt
Before you begin training your Weimaraner to hunt, he needs to learn a few basic commands. When he is ready, you can start systematically teaching your puppy how to hunt with you. But even before you start to teach your new puppy some basic obedience commands, you need to acclimate him to you, your family […]