Read the danger signs
ACCIDENTS, AS WE all know, do happen to working dogs, however careful you might be. I reckon that I’ve been pretty lucky over the years, as I’ve only had to abandon a day’s shooting and rush a dog to the vet for emergency treatment three times.
On all three occasions, the cause of the accident was a collision, twice with a broken branch. The worst of these was when my bitch impaled herself on a sharp stick, the latter penetrating the skin on her underside for 6in. This was in
