Shooting Times & Country

How the keeper’s kennel has evolved

Our four-legged friends have been with us a long time, and it’s a pretty good guess that they have been used to help us acquire food for longer than we know — and we know they’ve been used for hunting for thousands of years. Like everything else though, the speed of change has accelerated in recent times, and the use we now have for our dogs, or that some of us have at any rate, has also changed.

Cast your eye over the typical painting from the 1800s of the hunter accompanied

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