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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 454: Houndations - Off-Season Bird Dog Reality Checks

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week Tony explains how we often have a false-read on our dogs, and ourselves as trainers, and how we should try to accept reality to improve both during the off-season.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps.

0:10.3

12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout

0:15.0

2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love.

0:20.1

The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba.

0:23.4

If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode.

0:28.2

My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree.

0:36.5

Check it out now on Meat Eaters' YouTube channel

0:38.9

and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months.

0:45.8

Hey everyone, welcome to the Foundations podcast.

0:48.2

I'm your host, Tony Peterson,

0:49.4

and today is all about when reality crashes into our dreams of perfect dogs

0:53.5

and perfect hunts and what that

0:55.4

means for our offseason.

1:01.3

You know how everyone is just super pissed off lately and we all want to kill each other

1:04.9

and everything sucks? Well, part of that, at least in my extremely unprofessional opinion,

1:09.5

stems from us just being exposed

1:11.0

to so much BS in our lives. We go online and everywhere we turn, it's propaganda mostly meant to

1:16.4

either divide us or sell us something, and often those two are way closer link than they might seem.

1:21.9

We just know what reality is for all of us, and it's not as much fun as it was before everyone

1:26.7

had access to us all the time, and the's not as much fun as it was before everyone had access to us all the

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