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Pointing Dog Blog

The world of pointing dogs in words and images, moving and still.

A Right Good Lesson on Dog-Breaking

Dog Willing

Here is another nugget I’ve come across as I research various breeds for Volume Two. Like the previous post, it features a Russian Setter, but this time, the story is about shooing snipe in Delaware, in the spring. It appears in a book published in 1853 entitled “American Game in its seasons, etc.” by Henry William Herbert.

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A Parker Gun and Two Russian Setter Dogs

Dog Willing

Why does it take me so long to write my books? Well, for one, I get lost down rabbit holes. Here’s what happens: I come to a part in a chapter where I need to gather bit more information on a particular aspect of a breed, region of the world, or of a particular period in history. So I open a book, or go online to see what I can find. Yet despite my best efforts to spend an hour or two looking only for what I need, I end up going down some obscure rabbit hole that occupies me for the next week.

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Requiem For Our Breeds Part 3

Dog Willing

First, the bad news: There's a storm on the horizon, and we are not doing enough to prepare for it. Now, the good news: We've weathered a similar storm before and not only did we survive, but the storm gave birth to our modern pointing dogs.

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