Things are pretty quiet here at the Kennel. It just barely broke into double digits above zero today. The outside dogs pretty much stay in their heated kennels and the inside dogs make only brief forays out in the yard. About the only thing to do is shoot the seemingly endless number of red squirrels […]
Wild Apple Annie Tony and I road over to New York Saturday to pick up Wild Apple Annie from the Formans. Mark and Deb met us in Cobbleskill and we went to “Little Italy” for lunch (If you’ve been to the NY Grouse Ch. you know the place). Annie is a full sister to Wild […]
For awhile I’ve had a number of people asking if I’d work a dog for them and I’ve declined for a number of reasons that included teaching obligations and the desire to remain an amateur for the purposes of running dogs in field trials. Over the last few years it has gotten to the point […]
There are numerous dogs’ performances that stand out in my memory. I saw a dog at Mortlach in 1998 run what had to be the epitome of a prairie all-age race where at times the dog was only a speck on the distant horizon — but always broke to the front and had four chicken […]