Another hunter recently asked me, “What is the biggest challenge of having eight hunting dogs besides the feed bill?” I don’t know what most people encounter when they come home. Maybe they open the ...

In the time and place where I grew up—Sioux City, Iowa, in the 1960s and early “˜70s—hunting dog breeds didn’t live in the house, period. It simply wasn’t done. The proper place for a bird hunting dog ...