I WAS SURPRISED TO hear that the Kennel Club’s recent online survey has revealed that 60% of competitors want events to return as soon as possible. Only 60%?
The enthusiasm of gundog aficionados to get back to doing what they and their dogs enjoy was brought home to me last month when I joined 20 handlers, all members of the Hungarian Wire-Haired Vizsla Club of Great Britain (HWVCGB), for a pointing and hare day in Suffolk.
To those unfamiliar with the world of HPRs, the fact that all the handlers were members of the HWVCGB but only a minority were running wirehaired vizslas may seem surprising. However, it’s usual for owners of working HPRs to belong to a variety of different breed clubs.
The HWVCGB has a well-deserved reputation for staging training days, so for HPR owners who want to get out and do things with their dogs, it’s one of the best clubs to belong to.
I was delighted to find a rich variety of dogs taking part, with representatives of the following breeds: Slovakian rough-haired pointer, German shorthaired, longhaired and wirehaired pointer, Weimaraner, Munsterlander, bracco, spinone, Hungarian vizsla and wirehaired vizsla, braque du Bourbonnais and braque d’Auvergne. It was an impressive mixture, with the Brittany the only obvious absentee.
Perhaps even more remarkable than the variety of dogs were the distances many of the handlers had travelled to take part, ranging from Wiltshire and Warwickshire to Derbyshire and Sussex. For most participants, the 9am start meant a departure in the early hours. The fact that they were prepared to do so was not only a demonstration of their enthusiasm, but also a celebration of our freedom to travel. We have been starved of liberties for long enough.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 05, 2021 من Shooting Times & Country.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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