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• Posted on January 16, 2015

  A Nice Season With the Young Dog

  Gaia is now two and a half and did well in her hunting season this year. We started off with the grouse counting, which is fairly relaxed as there is no demand for anything other than hunt, point and flush. No tricky mar..
• Posted on March 21, 2014

  Goodbye Alice

  It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to add this chapter to the ‘Working Pointer Blog’. On Wednesday night we had to let Alice go to Doggie Heaven. Over the last two weeks she had started to have seizures, w..
• Posted on February 26, 2014

  Gaia’s Sporting Season

  The last blog I wrote described Gaia’s first encounter with grouse hunting where she managed to have some birds shot over her towards the end of the grouse season. Since then the season carried on and she gained some m..
• Posted on September 6, 2013

  Grouse 2013

  So, at last the season came round to grouse. Obviously the 12th of August and the days that follow are the best, but they also come with the pressure of the dogs performing in their job of finding, pointing and retrievin..