Last year, we found ourselves hunting with an old dog who could no longer run all day and a year-old puppy who was not yet fully trained, and we realized we needed another dog. We wondered if there might be an adult dog somewhere out there that was looking for a home, a dog that might fit in between our two dogs. The question was how to find her. After lots of emails and conversations with other Birddog folks, we finally stumbled onto Gundogz Rescue. During the multiple calls we had with Pat, it was clear that he was intensely focused on ensuring that the dogs that go through his program must go to homes that understand the specific needs of bird dogs. He suggested that Sally might be a good fit for us. It turns out, she is! She hunts, points, and retrieves, and then she comes into the house and is happy to curl up on her dog bed, or on someone’s lap. I imagine it must have been extremely difficult for her previous owners to part ways with her, so I want them to know that she’s now in a home where she will hunt chukar all fall, she will train on our homing pigeons frequently, she will be a house-pet, and she has a new family who all absolutely adore her.
