Claremont guide’s training turns rescue dogs into hunting machines

Great Danes, other unlikely breeds, learn to hunt pheasant

Levi Sanderson and his pair of rescue hunting dogs, Mya and Baloo. He trains rescue dogs to help during bird hunting. Courtesy photo.

While some hunters prefer Labrador retrievers or spaniels as their field companions, a Great Dane and a pit bull-coonhound mix are a Day County hunting guide’s bird dogs of choice.

Levi Sanderson, a guide at Hidden Hill Lodge near Roslyn, said he trained the pair of rescue dogs to hunt birds by appealing to their natural instincts.

Sanderson is a Claremont native who currently splits time between his hometown and Nashville, Tennessee.