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Built for tough terrain and tender hearts. “They have a sweet, human-like expression. Because their eyes are placed on the frontal plane, set well apart, wide and open in their gaze, they look at us...
When it comes to how most of us feel about our gun dogs, the word “passionate” has no ambiguity. We live that passion, and with vigilance, we can preserve the right to pursue it. ...
With that in mind, let’s look at just a few of the options you have to bring a little ho-ho-ho into your home this holiday season....
Puppies need to see, touch, hear, and smell everything, with their safety paramount, of course. Indoor games become outdoor games. Beanie Babies lead to bumpers and eventually birds. As our puppies ma...
A quarter-inch of ice lay on the surface of the flooded Arkansas rice field in early January. Tank, a 6-year-old German wirehaired pointer, sat quietly in the blind as we waited for the morning’s fi...
To see an English Pointer at work, quartering a grain field and slamming into scent, is to see a pointing dog defined. In that frozen moment, it all becomes clear: movement suspended in a still life o...
Mike Stewart had his target market. He had his training process. He had his vision of the perfect gun dog. Now all he needed was an opportunity to put it all together. That opportunity came in 1999, w...
Because of their exuberant, tail-wagging friendliness, many people don’t realize that well-bred sporting goldens are not only excellent trackers on land or water, but also excel at bomb-sniffing and...
Filed In: Culture, Destination, Dog, Experience
About an hour east of Tallahassee, Florida, just a short hop from Thomasville, Georgia, in the heart of the Southern quail-hunting culture, Dixie Plantation has figured prominently in pointing-dog his...
Filed In: Culture, Destination, Dog, Experience
The Tennessee Walking Horse is the traditional field trial mount. Its comfortable, four-beat gaits, ground-eating stride, willing temperament, and all-day endurance make it an effective and enjoyable ...
