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Welcome to the Houndations podcast.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson.

And today's episode is all about training during the off season

and the tools we can all use to encourage better progress with our dogs, no matter how old they are.

It's pretty easy to let a good dog loaf around in the winter after a long hunting season,

but a better approach is to just keep training.

While bird contacts and real-world hunting experience can round a dog out in a way that no

training ever will, there's no denying that the time spent working on skills when you're not

toting a shotgun around is extremely valuable. This only gets more valuable when you understand

what tools to use and when, which is something that is a bit more nuanced than it might seem

on the surface and is also something I'm going to talk about right now.

Over in the Whitetail world, which is where I spend most of my time,

there's a common trend that has kept the lights on in a lot of manufacturing facilities for a long time. It's the get rich quick product mentality that promises big bucks with little effort.

Unfortunately, the big bucks it delivers are usually to the folks selling the products and not

the hunters looking for a shoulder mount for their man cave.

To get a deer call to work, or a bottle of dopy or a decoy or whatever, you first have to know enough about bucks

to get within reasonable range of them.

This is where the disconnect comes in.

Products promise to draw in big bucks easily,

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