Retrievers are dogs trained to retrieve game, mostly birds. Because of this, they are trained to be obedient, responsive, and eager to please. They are also bred for physical toughness, as hunting ...

The first dogs in my memory were the farm dogs we used for herding our dairy cows. This was back in the 1950s, when the Thumb had countless small farms, usually entailing milk cows. A common dog in ...

Eighteen people and their dogs attended a two-day seminar this weekend near Cape Girardeau. Sponsored by Mike and Janel Pind, owners of Pindwood Kennel of Cape Girardeau, the Bill Hillmann Training ...

Maybe we’d like a Chesapeake Bay retriever for late-season waterfowl, when the temperature drops and the winds howl and a big, thick-coated dog is needed for the harsh conditions of retrieving. While ...

Members of the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association, the North American Hunting Retriever Association and the Christian Sportsman Fellowship, with their dogs, helped organize a youth ...

A couple of arthritic "old dogs" went bird-hunting a couple of days ago, and came home groaning with the pleasurable creaking of limbs that comes after a day busting brush and limping over hill and ...