Raven Kennels English Pointers

03/12/2024

Seven placed 3rd in her first ever AKC gun dog trial! And out of over 20 dogs! I am so proud!

02/05/2024

More training pics from this weekend 😍

02/03/2024

Back to training!

01/15/2024

These pictures are from 1/6 and 1/7. Today is the last day of our bird season. I had 4 days off including today to finish the season with a bang. Unfortunately mother nature decided that was not going to happen. Rain all day Friday with high winds and falling Temps, Saturday, Sunday, and today=Single digit highs and wind chills well below zero. Too hard on the birds so we left them alone. So our season is over. Back to training!

01/02/2024

Happy New Year! Great weekend!

12/30/2023

This is a cool picture! Hawk is the pointing dog.

12/25/2023

Christmas morning with a bunch of pointers 🤣

12/25/2023

A few more pictures from the season

12/10/2023

More pictures from the season. Only pointing picture I have taken is the in this group. Can you see all three dogs in it?

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving! We have been hitting the fields as often as we can. Here are some pictures I haven't shared yet.

11/05/2023

We went out for a little while yesterday on opening day. Abby pointed her first wild quail and retrieved her first wild rooster.

10/28/2023

Here is a few training pics from this fall😍

10/19/2023

My Dad and I took Sevy north over the weekend to try to find some ruffed grouse and woodcock. Sevy did better than we did and pointed several. We did get one of each finally!

09/25/2023

Hawk got an excellent in open solo and Sevy passed her water retrieve test this weekend at the Heart of the Prairie UKC wild bird trial!

09/11/2023

Beautiful weekend for hunting and training!

05/07/2023

Most exciting news is Alex ran Ember and Abby in the Gun class and won Reserve and Excellent! So proud of him!

05/07/2023

Hawk won the open solo today at the Heart of the Prairie UKC field trial!

03/29/2023

Sevy on a wild quail covey

03/27/2023

Sevy steady training videos. Progress! Dates in the caption

03/27/2023

Working dogs this weekend!

01/16/2023

We finished the last weekend off with a bang! We saw alot of birds, but the highlight was watching a 13 year old girl shoot her first wild bird, a beautiful rooster! She was a trooper walking some rough terrain to get it!
We walk alot of miles every year following the dogs with friends and family. Not all the walks ended with birds in the bag, but they were all worth it.

Can't wait till next year!

01/13/2023

What a great season it has been! One more weekend left!

01/01/2023

11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving!

11/16/2022

It was a good day to take off work and do some hunting!

11/14/2022

First 2 wild birds of the season, 2 quail! Beautiful day to be out!

11/09/2022

JUST A DOG -
From time to time, people tell me, "lighten up, it's just a dog," or "that's a lot of money for just a dog." They don't understand the distance traveled, the time spent, or the costs involved for "just a dog."

Some of my proudest moments have come about with "just a dog." Many hours have passed and my only company was "just a dog," but I did not once feel slighted.

Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by "just a dog," and in those days of darkness, the gentle touch of "just a dog" gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day.

If you, too, think it's "just a dog," then you will probably understand phrases like "just a friend," "just a sunrise," or "just a promise."

"Just a dog" brings into my life the very essence of friendship, trust, and pure and unbridled joy.

"Just a dog" brings out the compassion and patience that makes me a better person.

Because of "just a dog," I will rise early, take long walks and look longingly to the future. So for me and folks like me, it's not "just a dog" but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future, the fond memories of the past, and the pure joy of the moment.

I hope that someday they can understand that it's not "just a dog," but the thing that gives me humanity and keeps me from being "just a man." So the next time you hear the phrase "just a dog," just smile--because they "just don't understand."

Thank you Cory Ferguson for such a great story

11/04/2022

We are looking forward to the start of our wild bird season! 40-50 mile winds may keep us from going out tomorrow but we will be going soon!