Ajax is one year old today. This morning we went to the hunting grounds in Hennigsdorf for a training session and hunt with his breeder, Uwe Herrmann, and another hunter with a recently acquired 7 month old Deutsch Drahthaar. The last time we met up with Uwe, Ajax was having a bad day and was [...]

Approaches to training a hunting dog to retrieve vary widely. As novice trainers, we trained our oldest dog Ari more by instinct than anything else, playing games and utilizing his natural desire to work. He is an excellent retriever capable of persistent long-range blind searches and it is very rare that difficulties occur. (He has [...]