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Exercising the mind

IN THE PAST, I’VE debated on these pages whether we need to walk working gundogs. The well-known professional gundog trainer with whom I debated insisted that he had never taken a dog for a walk and didn’t ever plan to do so.

I did wonder at the time if I was being the overanxious amateur in my insistence that dogs do need walks, as surely he knew what he was talking about? If he, a highly experienced pro, didn’t think that dogs needed walks, who was I, a mere journalist, to

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