A capable equestrian and dog handler, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II regularly hosts the British National Retriever Championship at her Sandringham estate, where she walks amid sugar beets and bracken, judging for herself which is the top dog.
IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA — Imagine yourself in this state a couple of years back. It s October, and you re in a small-town bar in a county that s home to fewer
North Dakota grew at a 15% clip between 2010 and 2020, fourth fastest in the nation. That was mostly in bigger cities. Most of the state still operates at a slower pace with especially great hunting and fishing.
Hunting dogs revel with their handlers in acute forms of symbiosis, from which stories unfold that sometimes are heartwarming and other times sidesplitting.