Breeds

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This past winter was mild and a local trap club is quite close, making it easy to get a few…»

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“Beannaithe” (Blessed) is how the old Gaelic hunters in Ireland viewed the Shannon spaniel that later became known as the…»

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Let me begin by saying I’m pretty skeptical of the “magical” theories being thrown around nowadays for choosing a puppy.…»

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There has been a collective shift among sporting dog owners as far as canine nutrition is concerned. Pursuit-, condition-, and…»

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In the days before France became known as the cradle of artists and the center of the fashion world, it…»

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Every so often, the time comes for us to retire our faithful bird dog. He served us well, bounding through…»

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When I got my second bird dog many years ago, it was not one of my beloved English pointers, Brittanys…»

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I’ve seen German shorthaired pointers all over the world,” was the answer Frank Fisk gave to this question: “In the…»

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Once upon a time, when English gamekeepers reigned supreme on the estates of the nobility, they needed a dog that…»

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If your little dog can find that goose, you can keep the bird,” the waterfowl hunter told Doug Lodermeier, who,…»

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My friend Tony’s setter is nothing special to look at. She’s short, with a slightly pushed up nose, as if…»

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Three roosters and two hens had just flown from an unpicked cornfield across the road into a tract of seven-foot-tall…»

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Finally—although unexpectedly—the decades-long classification controversy within the American Water Spaniel Club (AWSC) has ended with an almost beyond-belief win-win outcome.…»

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In the late 1980s, when I began running dogs in and judging AKC’s non-competitive hunting tests for spaniels, I experienced…»

Knuckles is caught in a bitter custody dispute

We know you love your bird dog, but how much would you consider paying if someone kidnapped the pooch and…»

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Ever had your eye wiped by someone else’s dog? You don’t want to, believe me. It’s humiliating! It almost happened…»

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The Weimaraner, from the beginning of its breed history more than 100 years ago, has been known as the “Gray…»

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There’s no sight more classic than a pair of gun dogs working a gamebird with one dog pointing and the…»

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In the beginning, Airedales were hunting dogs. The working class people in the West Riding of Yorkshire, who developed the…»

This breed continues to be No. 1

The American Kennel Club recently announced its list of the most popular dogs in the U.S. Wouldn’t you know it,…»

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The prospect of buying a puppy can make you dream dreams. Dreams of a dog with unprecedented potential. A dog…»

French spaniel

  Having problems trying to decide which sporting breed is the right one for you? Then perhaps what you really…»

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Ralph Fedele told me his first choice was a whippet, not a Portuguese pointer. He’d been a bird hunter in…»

Savvy and Cleo eagerly retrieve a South Dakota rooster. Braque Francais are natural retrievers, something rather unique among most of the pointing breeds.

Each of us has an ideal recipe for what makes a fine hunting dog. The ingredients include some combination of…»

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“Poodles hunt? You gotta be kiddin’ me!” So goes the typical hunter’s reaction when someone tells him about using this…»