HARWINTON >> Gregor McCluskey and his Red Setter, Braeval Laddie, emerged the winners of a highly competitive bird dog championship in Illinois earlier this month. McCluskey, owner of Braeval Sporting ...

The excitement of a child on Christmas morning pales in comparison to the palpable anticipation of a sporting dog during a field trial, even if it’s only for practice. The English setter, Montana’s ...

At 5 months old, Ranger hasn’t posed any unreasonable or unexpected costs, although he hasn’t chewed the handle off a fly rod or had his first bad encounter with cheatgrass or barbed-wire fences. Here ...

I love gun dogs, which means I wouldn’t walk a pheasant or quail field or sit in a blind without one. Dogs make every hunt. On some days they cast perfectly and handle every bird with ease. On others ...

My first bird dog came with the name Jax. He was a rescue dog, and I readily accepted the shelter's advice to give him a new name. Jax was not even a valid Scrabble word, and a name without a meaning ...

"Whoa there, take it easy, Roscoe," Garry Taylor said to his eager little Brittany spaniel. Roscoe and his partner Elly, a beautiful English setter, had a pheasant pinned down in the brush right in ...

When searching for a forever pet, "adaptable," "happy" and "friendly" may top your list of dream dog traits. If that's the case, you'll be happy to know that the four type of Setter dog breeds—English ...