Category Archives: Sporting Dogs  If you’ve worked your way through the paper on Icelandic Sheepdogs (ISD) from previous posts (part 1 and part 2), you ran into a mathematical technique called cluster analysis. It’s a little complicated, but basically it’s a way of grouping things by similarities in various traits. In the ISD paper, cluster analysis was used to…  The Chesapeake Bay Retriever is the quintessential water dog among the sporting breeds. It’s a sturdy dog with an even sturdier coat, and a non-nonsense approach to the task at hand. This is an American breed, developed to be masterful in the hunt of waterfowl. This is Coupe (GCh Quailridge’s Coupe De Ville), photographed at…  Sally, my English Springer Spaniel (12.5 yrs), with a new friend (3 yrs?) she met at the local dog park.  Somehow, this doesn’t seem fair. Incoming search terms:loose skin on dogsloose skin dogmagazine covers with weimaraner dogdog skin looseflabby dogfloppy skin dogloose skinweimaraner loose skin  The Wirehaired Pointing Griffon is a breed you don’t hear much about. It was devloped in Holland in the 1870′s by Eduard Karel Korthals, who wanted a hunting dog that would stay close to the hunter on foot, could hunt any game in any terrain in any weather, and would come home at the end…  The Irish Water Spaniel is one of the lesser known sporting dogs in the US, but those that know the breed understand that dogs can have a sense of humor – for them, life is Disneyland and is meant to be enjoyed every minute. With their curly coat, naked tail, and topknot falling over their…  I just love the changing of the seasons in the eastern US, and you can’t beat Fall for providing a beautiful backdrop for some photography. So, when I found myself in Maryland just as the leaves were beginning to turn, I gathered up Alessandra Folz and her lovely Weimaraner Marge (Ch Colsidex Seabreeze Perfect Fit)…  I first met Hector (Am/Can Ch Artizoe’s High Caliber) the English Setter shortly after he arrived in the US from his original home in Quebec, Canada. He already had his Canadian championship so was no novice in the ring, but his native (human) language was French; his new owner, Shirley Hoeflinger, was American and Hector’s…  Sometimes the best photo isn’t the one you were looking for. While I was living in South Africa, I went out early one morning to shoot some photos of a friend’s new springer puppy and my own (South African-bred) Springer, Sally, came along. The puppy was only about 3 months old, and the weeds… |
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