Trapping & Training a Duck Dog with Kacey Edwards

Kacey Edwards moved to Tennessee from Florida for a nursing job at the start of the pandemic. Despite the timing, she found a husband and a welcoming trapping community in her new state. While Kacey was working night shifts as a nurse, she made an effort to get her young dog out for exercise during the day, usually at the farm she was trapping on. That led her down the path of training a bird dog, which Kacey talks about in this episode. Plus: bobcat meatballs, coyote recipes, shopping for "dog bones" in Ghana, and boykin spaniels. 3:00 There IS husband material on Tinder, everyone... especially if your profile pic is you holding up a 10-foot gator you harvested 6:00 "I just kept showing up" - a trapping workshop leads to a trapping job 9:00 Night-shift as a nurse during the pandemic, trapping during the day 12:00 Who's watching "Alone" on Netflix right now?  14:00 Competition from other predators on a trap line 17:00 Valentine's Day coyotes + how you eat/prepare a coyote 19:00 Procuring "dog bones" in Ghana 20:00 Bobcat meatballs 23:00 Boykin spaniels - dual-purpose bird dogs 24:00 Dogs can change the trajectories of our lives - being on the trapping farm led to training a duck dog 26:00 Cornerstone Gundog Academy 27:00 Tools for training a new duck dog: clickers, e-collars 28:00 Dogs who'll eat anything... saltwater, pots of oil 30:00 Puppy's first goose retrieval 34:00 Artemis: The thing we didn't realize we were all missing 36:00 Snarfing a PBJ right as a buck comes in; Taking a shot, losing the animal, praying for sign before dark, and then.... VOILA 41:00 Blood-tracking dogs 47:00 Full October, full heart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices