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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 402: Houndations - How to Ensure Your Dog Gets Enough Bird Exposure This Season

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week, Tony explains not only how important bird exposure is to hunting dogs, but how to find more opportunities close to home no matter where you live.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.5

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0:08.3

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0:12.0

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0:15.2

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0:23.9

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0:31.9

hey everyone welcome to the Houndations podcast.

0:39.6

I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about how to get your hunting dog

0:43.5

on as many birds as possible this season.

0:51.1

This one is a fun topic for me, because if there's one thing I like to do, it's to figure out

0:55.9

hunting opportunities. Over on the whitetail side, that's kind of my bread and butter, but it doesn't

1:01.6

end with deer. In an awful lot of places, we're real lucky to have multiple game bird species

1:06.9

to hunt, which often live on public land. And if we don't, we can get somewhere that

1:12.5

usually has them. This is so important to the development of a gun dog, and it's what I'm

1:17.7

going to talk about right now. A few weeks back, my twin daughters asked if they could bring a friend up to our lake cabin.

1:29.3

This is a pretty common request, considering they are 13, and it can go a few different ways depending on the friend.

1:35.3

But luckily, the girl they invited up is one who we've coached in sports since they were in second grade,

1:40.0

and we know her and her family well.

1:42.4

She's a sweet kid, who, by the reports I got from her parents

1:45.8

loves to fish, which was perfect because as a family, we love to fish. So I took one of my daughters

1:52.5

and this girl out the first day we were up at the lake, and I handed her a spinning rod with a

1:56.6

swimming jig on it because she had already told me she knew how to cast so i figured we're good to go

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