I RECENTLY MET A chap who maintains that without the beaters’ dogs, many shoots wouldn’t be able to function. It’s an opinion that’s hard to disagree with. Despite this, he believes that the dogs in the beating line never get the recognition they deserve. “All the praise and attention is given to the retrieving dogs, and they’re the ones that get fancy titles such as field trial champion. However, if it wasn’t for the beating dogs, they wouldn’t have much to retrieve in the first place.”
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