As I sit here and think about the upcoming season, I am thinking about my dogs. Last year was definately a down year, and this year will be the same. The thing that bothers me most about last season was my dogs. I hunted South Dakota, Missouri, and Kansas, and in each state I had the same issue. My dogs didnt seem be be able to smell for shit. They mishandled more birds than I can count. These are seasoned dogs 6 and 9 who I would swear by. In previuous years I never worried about them, and often bragged about them. Did anyone else experience this last year? We would work our ass off to only have a dog bust a bird. I have some therories as to why this happened, what do you guys think? Hopefully this won't be the case this year.