Bob Farris hung out a shingle

After training a few hunting dogs for friends, Bob Farris decided that he wanted to breed and train hunting dogs as a career. A shingle as a dog trainer, and I probably trained 500 to 600 gun dogs for clients, everything from Labradors to Brittanys to whatever they brought me. And somewhere along the way, a guy that worked for me imported a poodle pointer. He wanted to pay me my training fee to hunt it on wild birds, and I didn't know what a poodle pointer was. I had setters and I had a Chesapeake. I was pretty well set to hunt waterfowl or upland birds, but lo and behold, this dog was the best hunting dog I'd ever got to hunt behind. And I could shoot a rooster out over the snake River, and the dog would swim out and get it. I could shoot a rooster out over a standing corn field, and the dog could go find it and bring it back, and my setters wouldn't retrieve in water if I did shoot something and cat tails or out in a standing corn field, they wouldn't go get it. They weren't going to bust through the cover and do the dirty work. You know that you really need. So I decided I got to get a poodle pointer of my own, and I found one in Ontario, Canada, five months old, bought it, had it shipped here. And next thing you know, I found a couple more up in Calgary, bought two females and. Speaker1: Has been very successful in the poodle pointer breeding and training business. Good for him.