Shooting Times & Country

Puppies and pensioners

MOST OF US WILL have to face it one day. After a lifetime with dogs, what do you do when you get to an age when you feel it’s unfair to have another puppy because it may well outlive you, but you desperately miss canine companionship, as well as the social side of working your dog?

This rather sad line of thought was prompted by an email from a reader, Margaret, who told me she has had dogs all her life, including working spaniels and labradors, and has

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