Friends of Hard Driving Bev are a small group of field trialers who knew and greatly admired this dog. We are friends and our philosophy about bird dogs is, for the most part, is very much the same.
All-Age Dog, Shooting Dog, Grouse Dog, Walking Shooting Dog…
All of these categories conjure up different ideas and definitions to field trialers across the country, despite any written standards that may exist and may or may not concur with today’s dogs. Definitions are based on people’s many different experiences with field trials and field trial dogs in different parts of the country, their knowledge of the history of field trials, and their personal biases.
Perhaps it’s time to get back to basics… and to talk about field trial bird dogs. What all should have in common and what separates them. And perhaps, we should talk more about performance than label dogs anything and assume that the label makes the dog and that we agree on their definitions. What dogs actually do and what qualities they pass to the next generation is all that really matters.
Champion Hard Driving Bev 