Just Another Day With The Dog

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354 – November/December, 2025

By Chris Robinson

Most days in a dog sport, the field, or the show ring with a dog are pretty ordinary. The dogs either do the work required by the sport or they don’t. In the show ring, they either win or they don’t. If the dogs are gun dogs or hounds, they either find birds or critters or they don’t–and you either harvest the bird/critter or you don’t.

But now and then, the routine days elevate to something memorable. It can be some special dog work, a particularly great shot, or just a totally special, unexpected experience. Since virtually all the folks among my circle of friends either are or were hunters, our special days have almost always occurred hunting something. But, that doesn’t mean that there can’t be special days in conformation or performance activities–as an attorney whose family owns a Pembroke Welsh Corgi discovered.

I vividly remember an end-of-the-season hunt–on one of the shooting preserves where I’m a member, of all places. The day was crisp and clear but the air had an edge to it. Part of it was the lingering scent of autumn, but the rest was more suggestive of the winter that had already arrived with a mid-November snowstorm. This time, the quarry was pheasants or chukar partridge, as any waterfowl that had lingered after the snowstorm had, by now, sensibly departed for a less harsh and demanding climate. No wind ruffled the switchgrass, but a few lingering yellow leaves drifted down from a small stand of aspen not far from a long stand of spruce trees that bordered the field of switch.

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354 – November/December, 2025

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