Streams of Thought: Keep your hunting dogs safe this season

When they told me that my pup, Liza, would slow down a bit after having pups last spring, I believed them. They, of course, were wrong. I think she found a new, higher gear. And so it was almost a year ago that I watched as she zigged and zagged and leapt and bounded around and beneath and often through downed trees and branches and other obstacles on the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota during a few days of ruffed grouse hunting.