Built for those who cover ground.
Field health and gear for working dogs, and the people who run them.
Field health and gear for working dogs, and the people who run them.
Free field guide
Too Hot to Run. A field guide to working dogs in the heat: understanding how a dog reacts to heat, the warning signs in the order they appear, and what to do in the first five minutes. Written with a sporting dog vet.
The Brushworn Standard
If it hasn't been carried, soaked, frozen, or bled on by us, it isn't Brushworn.
A lot of what can go wrong is preventable and predictable. Heat, cold, busted boot leather, cut pads, cheatgrass awns, icy water, leaky waders, a long drive out of the woods. None of it is in the manual that came with your dog or your gear.
Brushworn makes season and terrain-specific field health kits for dogs that work in punishing conditions, and the gear that keeps a trip or a training day running. Categories will come and go. The standard remains.
In the works
Kits, protocol cards, and a short list of gear for the trips & training that ask the most of a dog.
Field kits
Not just a generic bag. Kits assembled for the conditions you're actually in (or headed to). Heat, late-season cold water, prairie or western scree, all with contents chosen alongside a sporting dog veterinarian.
Protocol cards
A waterproof card in every kit, keyed to that kit's contents and laid out for cold, shaking hands. Includes the triggers that indicate it's time to stop and drive to a vet now, and the info that will help you get your dog there safely.
Refills
Supplies age out and get used up. We'll tell you when yours are due so you don't have to keep track, and make replacing them easy so you're always prepared.
Curated gear
Kennels, carry, water, warmth, recovery. A tight user-curated selection from other makers, added one piece at a time as the gear earns its place.
Who's behind it
Most of what we know about keeping a dog going, we learned from the dogs. Grouse and woodcock cover in Maine, prairie grass out west, blood-tracking deer on oak ridges, and more cold mornings on salt water than we can count.
In addition to hunting, I judge NAVHDA tests, which means a lot of days watching other people's dogs work and noticing what goes wrong in the field, be it with the dog or gear.
The medical side comes from Charles Ellithorpe, DVM, a sporting dog veterinarian who has owned and trained hunting dogs for nearly 40 years. He lives in Maine and hunts the same covers we do. Beyond that, he's hunted big game across the western states, Alaska and British Columbia. He co-authors our field guides and helps build and provision our field kits. Nothing clinical goes out without his eyes on it.
Brushworn exists because the answers that matter on a hard day, and the gear that gets you through them, are scattered across forum threads, phone calls, and mistakes you only make once. We'd rather they were in one place.
See you in the woods.
P.J. & Charles