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Credit where credit’s due

On Friday, 28 October, I took my young labrador Meg to her first-ever shoot at Graythwaite in Cumbria. I went with the Park family from Millom — Richard Park, his adult son Phil and his grandson Jack.

Jack is 16 and he is the handler of Reeva, Meg’s mother. He took us under his wing, showed us the ropes and helped us a great deal in learning the etiquette and finer details of working on a shoot as opposed to the training ground.

People are so quick to have a negative view of teenagers, often

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