Hunting Dogs for the West
It’s a characteristic you don’t often hear away from open meadows and broken farm country but it is the ultimate compliment applied to an upland game bird dog. To say a dog is “birdy” is a mouthful. Birdy implies the dog is interested in fowl, has a good nose, great hunting instincts, and depending upon breed, can point or flush and retrieve as well. That’s an awful lot to expect from a single canine but depending on which species of bird you’re after, you can often find a do