Category: Bird Dogs
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Reflections on the season
So the past few weeks have been kinda slow for me – but still, a few notable things happened. If that makes any sense at all. First, this past weekend marked the final field trial of the season, at least in Florida. While most of the country is thawing out and gearing up to get…
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Echos from the past
Anyone who has had dogs for any appreciable length of time fully understands the impact that they can have on you. Throughout my life, I’ve had several dogs that were wonderful companions and friends. I’ve had dogs that were a joy to have for however long they were on this earth, which was never long…
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South Dakota, and yes I’m being a slack blogger
I can’t believe it’s been a month since my last post, and for that I apologize. Enough random things occupied my mind that I just didn’t get back to it. On the plus side, the house I’m building is well underway! The walls are going up and framing started last week, so it’s quickly gone…
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South Dakota, Part Deux
I met up with my cousins Friday night at the farmhouse that we would call home for the next 3 days. Much revelry followed – and thankfully pheasant hunting can’t start before 10 am, so we had plenty of time to recover and grab some breakfast before meeting up with our guide and hitting the…
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Old Dogs
I’ll start off with saying – TomBoy is OK. She’s currently snoozing on the couch of my camper as I’m up at the sports bar, drinking a cold one, watching the Bucs game, and writing this post. This will be a short one, but I wanted to share a nice moment I had with my…
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Part I: South Dakota! My trip across the country with dogs!
So I’ve been back for over a month but have just had a hard time getting around to sitting back down to write about my epic trip to South Dakota. It was a fantastic time with a lot of great relatives, and driving the 1,692 miles each way was TOTALLY worth it to have my…
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Eleanor!
Oh boy. This one. Where to even start with her. We bred Emma Jane to a nice boy named Brody in 2018. We said we really wanted a girl out of Emma Jane, and she took us literally – we got a girl. One girl. And no boys. Luckily for us, that one girl was…
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TomBoyeeee!!!
So it took me a little while to sit back down and make myself write another post, but I started this blog and I need to keep going with it. So today we will talk about TomBoy. When you think of a stubborn little girl with a mind of her own that gives absolutely zero…
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Patriot
Imagine a big, beautiful boy that encompasses everything we have in our minds of a male Vizsla, and you’ve got Patriot. Patriot was the second-born of Buffy’s first litter; big boy. Blocky head, great structure, and a bird drive beyond anything we had ever seen in a puppy, up until that point OR since. He…
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The Chosen One
After we had had Shooter for a few years and he had successfully gotten us completely wrapped up in Vizslas, dog shows, field trials, hunt tests and – briefly – obedience and agility – we decided it was time to add another dog to our household. Buffy was that pup. When a friend of ours…
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