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Hunting with dogs

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This 1953 National Film Unit production, Outdoor dogs, shows dogs assisting hunters – first while hunting a pheasant, and then a duck. In both cases the dog helps flush the bird and then, after it is shot, retrieves it either from land or water.

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Reference: Outdoor dogs. National Film Unit, 1953.

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Neil Deans, Game birds – Hunting, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/16715/hunting-with-dogs (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Neil Deans, published 30 October 2009, updated 20 April 2025.