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Tradition and the Webb Farm
I pulled to the side of the road near the J. Robert Gordon Sandhills Field Trial Ground, rolled down the windows, and enjoyed the sweet, warm breeze blowing through my…
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Points Northwest- Bringing Up Pup
My pup was 16 weeks old, legs too long and feet too big for the rest of her. Sometimes she missed the front step and went out flat on her…
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About Our Companions- Canine Concerns, Part I
Hunting dogs are athletes required to perform in all kinds of weather and are exposed to environmental hazards rarely found in a backyard. Further, many hunting dogs have a drive…
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New World Setters
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” goes the saying, and here’s some of what I stand for: I love all horses, some dogs, and no cats…
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Field Treatments
At the top of the field, a farmer was baling his final cut of hay for the season. The sweet smell of cut and drying hay filled the hot, humid…
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Fetch (Not Print)
Ever had a dog that would not retrieve? Let me tell you what a problem that is if you’re hunting quail in the South. Here’s why: a quail is hard…
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Lab Rapport
Deuce is big and brawny, with a coat so white it’s inaccurate to refer to him as a yellow Lab—he’s positively ghostly. When he’s hunting, not only is Deuce’s tail…
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Golden Points
The vizsla’s stunning coat has been compared to burnished gold and cinnamon. It’s been called tawny, russet, firelit, sunset, and spice. Forever eye-catching, the vizsla’s coat is actually a mixed…
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Rising Out of the Ashes
Herbert Stoddard, author of The Bobwhite Quail: its Habits, Preservation, and Increase, wrote in the 1950s: “The bobwhite might probably be called the Fire Bird.” If ever there was a…
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Live Wires
Trying to describe the wirehaired pointing griffon (ususally shortened to simply “griffon”) is a flirtation with paradox. The words “soft, cute, calm” come out in the same breath as “desire…
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Highland Adventure
We worked dogs for a very long time up a long, gradual slope to a position at the top of a rolling Oregon hill. From that elevated vantage point, I…
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Pointer Blessed
A dog you love should live as long as you do. How often now have I said this to myself since I began hunting over dogs? That was 59 years…
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