About DOGS Unlimited

Back in 1971, DOGS Unlimited was created as a place for gun dog owners to go for their training supplies, advice, and friendship — a place where you could go to make your good dog better. There weren't many companies focused specifically on hunting dog supplies back then, and the handful that come to mind have long since closed their doors.

For thirty-four years, that voice and that experience belonged to our founder, John Ingram. With his ingenuity and creativity, John was a pioneer at developing and bringing to market gun dog training gear that's still in everyday use today. He introduced the original Game Stewards Bird Bag, now seen everywhere in the bird dog training community, and the solid-core check cord still used in our FieldKing Almost Famous Check Cords. He helped develop the 2-inch wide reflective dog collar used extensively in field trials and hunt tests, and in the late 1970s, he was among the first to use BioThane coated webbing for our Dura-Lon and Dura-Flex collars, leashes, and check cords — a material we still build with today.

In July 2005, John passed the business to Alan and Marcia Davison, who moved DOGS Unlimited to Colorado and have carried that same hands-on standard forward ever since. Alan has hunted upland birds and competed with gun dogs himself since 1993, running them in AKC hunt tests and field trials and NGSPA horseback field trials, often alongside the professional trainers he's worked with along the way. His dogs have earned Field Champion and Amateur Field Champion titles, with national wins at the WCA, GSPCA, and NGSPA, and his German Shorthaired Pointer, Tripp, has gone on to become a National Field Champion — see Tripp's full field trial record for yourself. Every check cord, collar, and e-collar in our catalog is chosen, and in many cases personally used, by someone who actually trains and competes with the gear.

From the sixteen-page catalog John printed in his last year at the helm, we've grown into a full online catalog of gun dog training supplies, upland and waterfowl hunting gear, and field trial and hunt test gear — these days entirely through our ecommerce store, with no print catalog to wait on. The purpose hasn't changed, though. Browse our hunting dog training gear or training collars and GPS systems to find what John started building over fifty years ago: gear chosen by people who use it themselves, for the simple goal of helping you make your good dog better.