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Pointing, Flushing, and Retrieving: The Best Dogs for the Job

dreamstime_xs_18580614Today we welcome guest blogger Cindy Romero. She is an animal lover from North Carolina who writes for PetPremium when she isn’t playing fetch with her two dogs or trying to keep her cat off of the kitchen counters.

Dogs have been a hunter’s best friend for 6,000 years—since the time that humans domesticated cattle, and hunting became more sport than necessity. In that time, dogs have been used to hunt all kinds of creatures from bears to cats to water fowl, and certain dog breeds have prevailed over others in hunters’ collective search for the perfect bush companion. Continue reading Pointing, Flushing, and Retrieving: The Best Dogs for the Job