Squirrel Dogs

You had a young dog that was starting to look right. It was finding squirrels, staying on tracks, and showing […]

A young dog can do some exciting things. It might strike a track fast, push hard to the tree, and

You had one hunt where everything clicked. The pup hunted out, stayed busy, hit a tree with confidence. You told

You cut the dog loose and it just follows you. Stays inside ten yards. Circles back every couple of minutes.

Most handlers push young squirrel dogs too hard before the pup has any reason to trust the process. The pup

A young squirrel dog that quits a track too early is one of the most common problems handlers run into.

The dog moves a squirrel, runs it toward the timber, and then the track goes cold. And instead of working

A young squirrel dog that finds game but goes quiet at the tree is not a broken dog. It is

A cage squirrel can wake a young dog up. It can trigger something that was sitting quiet in a pup

The question comes up every time a hunter decides they want a squirrel dog: which are the best squirrel dog