![]() Two years ago, Anderson was sitting at home in Iowa, browsing social media, when a post about a free German shorthaired pointer caught his eye. Technically speaking, Chris Anderson’s sharp German shorthaired pointer, Ally, wasn’t adopted from a shelter. Read on to discover the story of three more dogs and their owners, happy to follow their own paths from the shelter to the field. I like to think that’s part of the reason why Kiwi always wore a smile. Knowing that she went from a cold concrete floor and chain-link kennel to a home where weekend forays into the South Dakota countryside during the fall were simply a part of living life makes me pretty happy. Fueled by our mutual passion for hunting, that little yellow dog and I made a lot of memories together. Am I proud of hunting with a “pound dog”? You bet. What she lacked in pedigree Kiwi made up for in an unapologetic love for following her nose while bounding through the cover and flushing birds into the sky. I wasn’t old enough to buy a hunting license when I helped adopt this mixed breed pup at a local animal shelter, but by the time my first hunting season rolled around Kiwi had proven time and again that her nose found roosters nearly as often as her long, shaggy fur picked up cockleburs. ![]() The first upland bird I shot as a young hunter was a Hungarian partridge, flushed from a weedy field edge by a happy, short-legged, yellow-furred dog named Kiwi.
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