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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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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Dans la première partie, j'ai expliqué qu'un certain nombre de races françaises et anglaises de chiens d'arrêt sont dans une situation désespérée dans leur propre pays. Dans cet article, je voudrais regarder de plus près la situation en France
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In Part 1, I explained that some of the pointing breeds originally developed in France and England are in dire straits in their own homelands. In this article I would like to take a closer look at the situation in France.
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L'autre jour, j'ai eu une conversation intéressante avec mon ami Xavier Thibault. Xavier est un dresseur professionnel et, comme moi, il est passionné par les races françaises de chiens d'arrêt. Notre discussion tournait autour des problèmes auxquels de nombreuses vieilles races françaises sont confrontées de nos jours.
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The other day I had a very interesting conversation with my friend Xavier Thibault, a professional dog trainer and French pointing breed enthusiast living in the Charente region of France.
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