Sporting Dogs - Gun Dogs
Education and Rescue.

Setters in a Landscape by Edwin Douglas - about

If you are considering adding a sporting dog to your family, please consider a rescue - there are so many lovely animals waiting for forever homes in rescue, animal shelters and pounds. My own rescue is for German Shorthaired and English Pointers.

The Breed Links - Most of these breed pages contain rescue information.  If you know of a sporting breed rescue which should be here, please let me know.

The Breed Links

American Brittany Rescue  - American Brittany Rescue is a growing organiazation dedicated to placing healthy, good tempered Brittanys in new homes if they become  unwanted or uncared  for.

Home Page of Cesky Fousek
If you aren't familar with this breed, they are related to German Wirehaired Pointers, Wire Haired Pointing Griffons, etc.

Cesky Fousek - breed information

Cocker Spaniels are popular pets which require regular grooming. They frequently end up in rescue.

Here is a description of Cocker Spaniels from the American Kennel Club.

Cocker Spaniel Rescue - search for a local group here.

Carolina Cockers - lots of available dogs here at this very nice rescue site. This is located near me, the person who does this is on a discussion list I belong to.

English Pointers Tense Moment by Reuben Ward Binks

I now share my home with more than a dozen English Pointers (all rescue and most available for adoption. They are wonderful dogs). The English Pointer - UK - lots of collectables here as well as other information. English Pointer  (from Dog Times, a Portuguese site) - breed description in English with nice photos.

English Pointer Rescue - Pointerrescue.org
Outstanding website for pointer rescue.  Dogs available for adoption nationwide are listed here.

Joshua's Page - this site celebrates the accomplishments of a rescue pointer who won the agility trial at the National Specialty among other things.

English Setters

English Setters on the World Wide Web
English Setter Rescue
ACES - English Setter Rescue

English Springer Spaniels - click for a Google search on Springers
English Springer Spaniel Rescue - from California

Flat -Coated Retriever

German Shorthaired Pointers
This is my page for German Shorthaired Pointers.
It contains:
    • breed information, links
    • discussion list and bulletin board links
    • rescue links
German Shorthaired Pointer Rescue Web Sites - This is my page of GSP rescue links and organizations.

Lady Molly Brown's Personal Page - This little girl has the life I wish most dogs could have. Lots of pictures of a "traveling" GSP.

Carolina Pointing breeds Rescue and Referral - my page: I keep it up to date.

German Wirehaired Pointer Club of America

Golden Retrivers (there are a lot of pages, I will let you do your own searching)

Golden Retrievers click for a google search on Goldens
Golden Retriever Rescue click for a google search on Golden rescue

Irish Red and White Setters - very informative page about this rare breed. Lovely illustrations.

Spinone Club of America

Italian Spinone

Millie's Book
Millie, the Golden Retriever reads a book and practices her writing skills.
Very suitable for children (human ones, that is).

Megan, now Mia. She was in my rescue for a long time waiting for the right home. She got adopted just recently to a lovely family. I have had at least one lab for about ten years now, expect another one in m rescue soon - there are so many in the shelters.

Labrador Retrievers: About: Just Labradors - Excellent site. Rescue: Desert Labrador Retriever Rescue LabMed - Labrador-L Emergency Medical Assistance Page, where helping rescued Labradors in need of medical attention is our mission. Cool lab related items to buy help to support the work of this group, which has now helped over 200 labrador retrievers. Labrador Retriever Rescue, Inc. -Rescue - Rehabilitate - Rehome. Serving Metropolitan District of Columbia, Suburban Maryland, Northern Virginia and Select Mid-Atlantic States Labrador Retriever - East Tennessee There are many rescue web sites for this breed - try a google search on labrador retriever rescue for other links.

pointingdog.com - encyclopedic in nature, breeds, game, organizations, supplies.  Lovely illustrations.

Braque Links (pointing dogs of Europe)

BracoAleman - from the Spanish kennel club page
Braque D'Auvergne - a description with picture from pointingdog.com
Club du Braque du Bourbonnais - in French
Braque Francais - a description with picture from pointingdog.com
Braque Français - in French English Version personal page
Club de Braque Francais du Quebec - in French
Braque Saint-Germain - many good links are listed here for this breed
Braque de Weimer (Weimeraners) - French
DogInfoMat - braque breeds - several other breeds are listed here, with links to information and pictures
See also: German Shorthaired Pointers & German Shorthaired Pointer Rescue (my big separate pages for GSPs)

Poquito Vizla's Home Page
Nicely designed page about a special Vizla and her relatives. Includes, Diary of a Litter (pretty cute). Unfortunately the pages are too big for small browsers. Just for fun, mainly.

Portuguese Pointer

Planet Vizla
Actually, I found this site disappointing in terms of information about the breed, but the pictures are fun.

www.vizladogs.com
"Consider this the encyclopedia on Vizslas -- a Hungarian pointing dog. ...photographs, articles, references, and much more."

Recommended Reading Recommeded reading from the library:
		Big Red: The Story of a Champion Irish Setter and a Trapper's Son Who Grew Up Together, Roaming the Wilderness by Jim Kjelgaard; illustrations by Bob Kuhn. New York, Holiday House [1956, c1945] - classic story of an Irish Setter. "From the moment Danny sees the beautiful Irish setter, he knows Red is the dog for him. Together Danny and Red face many dangers in the harsh Wintapi wilderness that they call home." Because of these books, I started a savings account when I was in highschool so that I could buy an Irish setter. I never got my Irish setter - the breed got popular and many health problems resulted, although now it has recovered somewhat. I kept the savings account somewhat although I have spent quite a bit of money on dogs...

Experiences of an Irish R.M. E ΠSomerville and Martin Ross 1944. Meet Maria the most amazing Irish Water spaniel and several other canine characters in this delightful book. Highly recommended. Also available as a wonderful video series. The authors also wrote Maria and some other Dogs, but I have not had the pleasure of reading this.

While researching this title I came across the full text of The Silver Fox by the same authors. I don't know if there are dogs in it or not. From BlackMask Online.

You can find these, and many more books featuring dogs at your local library or try abebooks.

Pointer in a Landscape - John Boultbee (1753-1812)

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