Breeds

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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…»

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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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A lot of great photos come across our desks here at Gun Dog, and our special Labradors edition was certainly…»

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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…»

Airedale running

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

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…»

Named for a Hungarian painter, Corbel is a handsome lad.

“My aunt’s husband was a doctor, and he get from the patient a puppy, but they did not like dogs,…»

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by M.J. Nelson In 2008, the American Kennel Club reported that exactly 240 Welsh springer spaniels were registered. This means…»