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Presents the short story "A Sporting Proposition," by Dion Henderson.

The article features professional dog show judge and dog fancier Percy Roberts. He will be judging six dogs in the coming Westminster Kennel Club's best-in-show dog event at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. It notes that Roberts view his job as a judge with a buyer's eye, comparing dog handlers in a dog show to dog sellers trying to convince him to buy the dog.

The article features former Scottish gamekeeper Jack MacKintosh, who operates a kennel in Millbrook, New York. It says that MacKintosh is a superb trainer of problem dogs, who has clients from as far as Texas, Florida and Texas. According to the author, one of the greatest assets of MacKintosh is his wide-ranging voice, which can change from the softest cool to a threatening burr. His experiences in dog training are also discussed.

The article features Irish greyhound trainer Michael Brennan. According to the trainer, a real greyhound dog is a chaser and a killer and longs for the open range. Brennan negates speculations about the use of drugs in greyhound racing. He claims giving stimulants like caffeine of Benzedrine to dogs to make them run fast is not worth it.

The article focuses on the ability of dog trainor Barbara Woodhouse as she puts dog owners and their pets through one of her regular 25 dollars weekend courses in England. Woodhouse starts her routine with an equipment check that includes a 4-feet leather leash and a large-link choke collar showing the owner how the collar works. Woodhouse stresses the significance of speeding up if an owner wants to have an interesting dog saying the need of owners to put heavy emphasis on talking continuously by being a bit more silly.

The article focuses on the different training techniques for dogs on how to hunt birds as revealed by Clyde Morton, a dog trainer, in Alabama. Morton cites the need for dogs to learn to scent the body of the bird to be able to determine its location. Moreover, the trainer needs to respond to the dog's sound to be able to teach him on how to point the bird's location.

The article presents tips on training a dog. According to dog trainer Jeff Minter, the only requirement a man needs to train a dog is that he must have more sense than the dog. It is important to remember that the simpler the command, the easier it is for the dog to master it. Punishment is important in training but should never be carried to the point of cruelty. Patient is needed to train a dog.

The article presents an interview with Jim Buck, a dog trainer from New York City. He discusses factors that contributed to his success in wholesale dog walking. He mentions that he was a former horse trainer who became president of a junior executives' lunch club in the U.S. He highlights that word-of-mouth advertising helped him to recruit his staff of handlers.

The article highlights the summer training of John S. Gates, who is considered the most successful trainer of field-trial bird dogs in the history of the sport, and his son, John Rex in the prairie lands in Broomhill, Manitoba. The Gates, who are from Leesburg, Georgia, have already won 40 field-trial championships and 101 open championship trials. The two-month training is described as an exhausting forced march wherein dogs are trained on chickens or roaded from dawn until sundown. John Gates has been training for 41 years and campaigning dogs.

The article reports that August Belmont IV won the 1967 National Amateur Retriever championship. According to the article, Belmont single-handedly guided his 5-year-old, black Labrador retriever, named Super Chief to victory. It explains that the National Amateur Retriever championship is the premier competition in retrieverdom, more glorious than winning the National Open. It adds that out of the 183,124 registered retrievers in the U.S. and Canada, only 72 succeeded in qualifying for the 1967 National.

The article focuses on Willie, an 18-month old springer spaniel who became the youngest winner of the 20th English Springer Spaniel National Championship held in Marion, Illinois. Observers were amazed that a young bird dog like Willie would not break on close shot bird or chase on a flush but what was more surprising is that Willie has never seen a pheasant before. Willie's trainer, Larry McQueen claims that springers are the most exciting sporting dogs but the hardest breed to train because they are expected to do more under tight control.

The article features dog trainer T. W. Pershall and Martens Little Smoky, the finest field-trial retriever in the U.S. and the winner of the National Championships held at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware in January 1966. It says that Smoky defeated 44 of the top field-trial retrievers in the country during the four-day competition. The author adds that Pershall suggested to industrialist-sportsman John Olin to buy Smoky from trainer Frank Hogan of Wisconsin. The financial support enjoyed by Pershall is also discussed.

The article relates the author's experience in portraying the role of Meg Merlin, a ballet dancer, in the motion picture "The Unfinished Dance." She narrates that she enjoyed dancing in the motion picture with a special costume and with roses in her hair. She cites that she planned to become a dog trainer when she grows up, but decided to become a ballet dancer instead after making the film.

Focuses on the training of Saint Bernard dogs at the Saint Bernard Hospice in Switzerland. Characteristics of purebreds compared with Saint Bernards in the U.S.; Origin of the breed according to dog trainer Father Jules Detry; Information on the rescue operations of the dogs at the hospice; Truth behind the death of a child due to the attack of a Saint Bernard dog.