The blocky black head with white teeth and lolling tongue stood out from the back of the truck, and I knew instantly: Labrador. Other breed standards might have given it away, but Labs are most ...

Erica Bandes’ English pointer, Hilda, is coursing through the brush in wide arcs when her gait suddenly slows to a prowl. She stops, eyes staring into the thicket ahead. Behind her, another pointer, ...

In the time and place where I grew up—Sioux City, Iowa, in the 1960s and early ‘70s—hunting dog breeds didn’t live in the house, period. It simply wasn’t done. The proper place for a bird hunting dog ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn. — Most English setters have a thick, flowing coat of fur that is much longer and curlier than that of a typical English pointer. When the conditions on a field-trial course get ...

Grouse hunters are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Put more than two of them in the same room and sure as sunrise they’ll find something to disagree about. More likely, they’ll find lots to disagree ...

There are 32 recognized breeds in the American Kennel Club (AKC) Sporting Group. These dogs are athletic, trainable, and love the outdoors. Many make excellent gun dogs, or as they are commonly called ...

In last year’s trials throughout the South, pointers won so regularly that the old pointer v. setter argument seemed academic long before Edward R. Coleman’s pointer Susquehanna Tom won the Grand ...

The quail that live on the Old Hancock Place near Grand Junction, Tenn. were “fixin’,” as southerners say, to pair off, and a pair of quail is harder for a dog to smell than a bevy. Also, it rained ...

The blocky black head with white teeth and lolling tongue stood out from the back of the truck, and I knew instantly: Labrador. Other breed standards might have given it away, but Labs are most ...