Sporting

Sporting

Pro Club is dedicated to helping members develop and recognize outstanding sporting performance. Explore our tips and resources for developing your sporting dogs’ talents, keeping them conditioned year-round, and showcasing them in the field.

Articles

  • Performance factors typically tip the scale when it comes to choosing the best food to feed an individual dog. Does the food in your dog’s bowl provide the nutrition and energy needed to power a canine athlete?

  • Meet Purina Pro Club Pro Dan Murray, dog handler, dog breeder and dog groomer to learn why he feeds his dogs Purina Pro Plan dog food.
  • Joe and Dawn Droel breed Brittanys with the independence and conformation needed for dog shows and fieldwork. None of their Dual Champions is as accomplished as "Hobey," who became a Brittany history maker when he won an all-breed Best in Show...
  • Trainers of retrievers often lament there is not enough time to train and condition dogs, yet both are needed to prepare dogs for highly competitive field trial stakes. A combined approach enhances performance and also prevents injury.
  • Bird dog winter camp in the Wild West of Prewitt, New Mexico, is a spiritual coming together, where a string of red dogs, known as Hungarian Vizslas, and their pro trainer and handler escape to fine-tune their pointing and retrieving skills.
  • Meet Purina Pro Club Pro Chris Jobman, a professional retriever breeder and trainer at Flatline Kennels, and find out why Purina Pro Plan is his dog food of choice.