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The world of pointing dogs in words and images, moving and still.
So how was your 2020? I suspect the answer is pretty much the same, the world over.
It sucked.
Hard.
But just in case you are wondering about my year and how the various projects I’m involved with are going, well, thank you. Read on….
Read MoreI’ve lost count of the number of autumn days I’ve spent hunting ducks in the Libau-Netley Marsh. But I am pretty sure that on most of them, I was startled at least once by a snipe flushing in front of me on the way to the duck blind. And until about 15 years ago, I never shot a single snipe, even though they’ve always been a perfectly legal game bird in Manitoba. The tradition in my family was to save our cartridges for the biggest birds we could find, not ‘waste’ them on such tiny birds as snipe.
Read MoreI love the French pointing breeds, braques, épagneuls and griffons. But there is one tiresome necessity that comes along with them breed: the need to explain their breed name to English speakers.
Read MoreAll well-bred gundogs, French or German, are hard-wired to seek contact with game. They are motivated by an inherited drive that pushes them to seek game and by an inherited desire that pulls them with the prospect of making contact with game. So what is the difference, in general, that I’ve observed among French and German dogs?
Read MoreOn August 6 1892 an article calling for a massive public confrontation of English and French pointing breeds appeared in “Le Sport et Sportsman Réunis” a popular French sporting journal. The author, a well-known member of the canine establishment, issued a challenge to breeders of all the various breeds of pointing dog to put up or shut up.
Read MoreLet’s hop in a time machine to see if we can find out exactly when, and maybe even where the idea for an organization dedicated to the improvement of hunting dogs came from. We’ll set the time dial to ‘late 1800s’, the location dial to ‘somewhere in England’ and press Go.
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