Sentences with phrase «hunting dogs in»

It is not until the late 14th century that Gaston De Foix, a rich and powerful lord of Southern France who was a warrior famous for his hunting feats, wrote his immortal hunting classic «Livre de Chasse» (Book of the Chase) in 1387, in which he describes hunting dogs in their work as quartering in front of the master, flushing game and retrieving from land and water - all very like the behaviour and work of the English Springer Spaniel we know and admire today.

Towards the close of the 19th century he spent a number of seasons hunting and exploring in the Matabele, Mashona and Manica territories, now known as Rhodesia, and often mentioned his hunting dogs in his writings.

The Guiding Eyes breeding colony has been derived in part from the Whygin Labs, a prominent kennel that was very successful with show and hunting dogs in the 1970s.

It should be remembered that poodles are basically hunting dogs in elegant attire and do require exercise and training to be at their best as companion dogs.

UKC's 55 gun dogs are the setters, retrievers, and all - around hunting dogs in the AKC sporting dog group plus many European spaniels, pointers, and retrievers as well as breeds with exotic names such as Stabyhoun, Pudelpointer; Barbet; and Kooikerhondje.

The dogs were thought to be bred as hunting dogs in the mid 1800s.

The Beagle's outstanding scent detection coupled with its athleticism and stamina make them good hunting dogs in addition to their current use as service dogs, chiefly in detection of bombs, drugs, or prohibited agricultural products.

Interestingly, hunting dogs in this group were selectively bred for different tasks in which they excelled.

The Akita and his cousin the Shiba Inu both started life as hunting dogs in Japan — a heritage manifest today in the tendency of both breeds to hunt small game and the neighbor's cat, but the Akita is part of the working group and the Shiba is a non-sporting dog.

Dexter Blanch, inventor of the DHS harness, originally created it with hunting dogs in mind.

Our Purpose (directly friom their website): The North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association is a legally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering, improving, promoting, and protecting the versatile hunting dog in North America.

As a hunting dog in Africa, the Basenji was used for controlling vermin and chasing prey toward the hunters» nets.

Rhodesian ridgeback is a muscular, intelligent, loyal and independent dog that originally bred as a hunting dog in Africa.

This small dog filled a roll long sought after; he was an excellent hunting dog in a size smaller than a retriever.

Originally, the Akita was an all - purpose hunting dog in its native Japan.

Dubbed as an iconic hunting dog in the United States, Beagles are professionals when it comes to rabbit hunts.

The Beagle has been known as an expert hunting dog in terms of small game hunting for over two hundred years.

It was used as a hunting dog in the Middle Ages and favored by wealthy Englishmen as an all - purpose hunter.

A bas - relief was discovered recently that dates back to the Han Dynasty (150 - 200 BC) which definitely places the Chow as a hunting dog in that period in China.

This breed was developed to meet the wide - ranging needs of a hunting dog in the African veldt.

His apprenticeship with the droll Prince of Chintz might explain the oil painting of a hunting dog in Romano's living room, but curiously, there's not an inch of glazed floral fabric anywhere.

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In between hunting down the zombie clan that ate the family dog and working on your new marketing collateral, handling customer invoices and scheduling meetings is sucking up time that you flat out can't afford.

Charlie Munger: I have no dog in that hunt, I have no interest in pharma, or Valeant.

I've been snowbound since Sunday evening, stuck at home with kids who resent the fact that there are no snow days in homeschool, a wife who wonders why I don't have a job in south Florida (but only on cold winter days), and two animals (a neurotic dog who keeps asking to go out and then to come in, and a kitten that is constantly hunting my various appendages).

The dog, the cat or the bird train their young in countless ways to hunt, to fly or to build a nest.

Nero sowed up the Christians alive in the skins of beasts and set his hunting dogs to tear them in pieces.

While I have no dog in the hunt as to how best to preserve the Catholic understanding of the church, I do wish to preserve the twenty years of togetherness Catholics and Evangelicals have experienced.

The wild boar is hunted with dogs, who keep him at bay while the huntsmen take aim at him with their guns; the dogs durst not approach him, he is so fierce and terrible in his attacks; with his monstrous tusks he would soon annihilate them, did they venture to encounter him too closely.

Fox hunting the Midwest way means listening to hound music in the night and matching dog against dog in three - day field trials

It honors the dog which in hunting is mindful only of game and the gun; which moves at a pace and range natural in the field and pleasing in style; and, most important, the dog which would therefore be the most valuable asset on an actual shooting trip.

Rather, it is a shooting - dog stake in the broadest sense — its goal is the highest degree of hunting - dog excellence.

When you haveacquired control of the way your dog ranges in the field — this takes two tothree months of daily training — he is ready for the final exercise before anactual hunt: response to a flushed bird.

If called upon to explain their addiction to the sport, field trial enthusiasts are apt to go textbook on you and talk loftily of «improving the breed» and «demonstrating the performance of a perfectly trained dog in the hunting field.»

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Tested in the customary braces, the dogs hunt on parallel courses and must not interfere with each other.

On a blustery October morning in 1874 a group of Tennessee sportsmen gathered together in a field near Memphis to settle a long - standing argument about who had the best hunting dog.

The Zuul dog is created at the lower part of the mask, and the rest of the mask is totally action packed with details to tell the story of ghost hunting in New York... And in the centre, of course slime...!

His answer — delivered quietly and with a trace of a smile — was that if he ever saw me hunting in any of his fields, he'd shoot my dog, and he'd worry about what to do with me afterward.

I no longer directly have a dog in this hunt, since Son graduated almost a decade ago.

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As we sometimes say here in Tennessee (no, really, we do), that dog don't hunt.

According to Defra, exemptions in the Hunting Act allow the following activities to take place in limited circumstances: stalking and flushing out; use of a dog below ground, in the course of stalking and flushing out, to protect birds being kept or preserved for shooting; hunting rats and rabbits; retrieval of hares which have been shot; falconry; recapture of wild mammals; and research and observation.

The election of the Coalition Government in May 2010 reignited the debate, with the RSPCA warning of «a real threat» that the ban on hunting with dogs could be overturned as the new coalition government had promised MPs a free vote on the issue.

The Labour government made a manifesto commitment in 2001 to resolve the contentious issue of hunting with dogs in England and Wales.

A number of different animals have been hunted with dogs, including foxes, deer, hares and mink, with each quarry species hunted in a different way.

In 2004 the government reintroduced the issue and gave MPs a free vote to pass an outright ban on hunting with dogs.

The law, introduced by Labour in 2004, bans the use of dogs to hunt foxes and other wild mammals in England and Wales.

Because that is the fact of the matter; hunting with dogs has not been banned it its entirety, it has been altered by the various clauses contained in the Hunting Act.

He has campaigned on numerous Animal Welfare causes such as against puppy smuggling [8] and has supported the Dogs Trust UK as well as BirdLife Malta in its campaign against the hunting of migrating birds.

I personally am in favour of hunting with dogs — and the Coalition Agreement clearly states that we will have a free vote on whether to repeal the Act when there is time in the Parliamentary calendar to do so.»