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DOGS & BREEDING

Our hunting dogs also play a large role in making Ringneck Retreat a place for incredible hunts. Darik’s first lab, Duke, helped start his guide service years
ago, and now Ringneck Retreat has six dogs expertly trained to accompany hunters. Each breed has its own style, and each dog has its own personality. As
each of our dogs offers a different hunting experience, Darik will custom match a dog to each hunter or group. Ringneck Retreat also welcomes your own hunting dog(s) as well.
We treat our dogs with the same admiration and respect as our human hunting buddies. If you join one of our hunting expeditions, you’re sure to meet them. We train each hunting dog in the intricate skills of pointing and retrieving, and, unlike most dogs, our much–loved dogs, benefit from exploring a 2500–acre prime hunting ground every day.

The Heart & Soul of Ringneck Retreat...

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If you raise your own prize hunters, contact us for information about our stud services.

A Hunting Dog's Prayer
 
I thank  thee o lord for the rivers woods and fields where in lie the game birds I love to hunt. I thank thee also for the men and woman who protect and reserve
wildlife in all its forms so the future generations will have the healthful pleasure of hunting and fishing. My master means more than life or death to me and I pray for intelligence, ability and strength to understand and execute his commands and desires. May our companionship lead to complete understanding
so that our moments together will be the happiest of all.
Help my master to comprehend that I will gladly give my life for him be he millionaire or pauper.
His love and confidence are all I ask. I beseech you to guide him and protect him from thoughts deeds or actions which will disturb the faith of others in him. I want my master to be respected by his friends as I look up to him. The wag of my tail indicates the feelings of my heart and no blows, privation, or hunger will ever keep me from being happy when I hear my master’s voice or footsteps. When the curtains of death are about to close my active
life, I pray thee, oh God, that my master be near, his hand caressing my head as my eyelids close.

Amen

Windsor
 Duke
 Victor
Hooch
C.J.
Cash


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Why Title a Dog...

Not just a brag, not just a stepping stone to a higher title, not just an adjunct to competitive scores, a title is a tribute to the dog that bears it, a way to honor the dog, an ultimate memorial. It will remain in record and in memory for as long as anything in this world can remain. Few humans will do as well or better in that regard.
And though the dog itself doesn’t know or care that its achievements have been noted, a title says many things in the world of humans, where such things count.
A title says your dog was intelligent and adaptable, and good-natured. It says that your dog loved you enough to do the things that please you, however crazy they may have sometimes seemed.
And a title says that you loved your dog, that you loved to spend time with it because it was a good dog, that you believed in it enough to give it yet another chance when it failed, and that, in the end, your faith was justified.
A title proves that your dog inspired you to that special relationship enjoyed by so few; that in a world of disposable creatures, this dog with a title was greatly loved, and loved greatly in return.
And when that dear short life is over, the title remains as a memorial of the finest kind, the best you can give to a deserving friend, volumes of pride in one small set of initials after the name.
A title earned is nothing less than love and respect, given and received, and permanently recorded.
Credit: Sandra Mowery

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