Working Dogs

Hunting may be the job that comes most naturally to dogs, as all dogs descend from that great hunter of the animal world, the wolf. Since our first association with dogs in the Stone Age, humans have trained dogs big and small to hunt nearly every animal on Earth. These range from Rhodesian ridgebacks bred to challenge lions in Africa, to dachshunds engineered to go after badgers in their narrow dens. Today, hunting with dogs is mostly a sport. Here, a spaniel stands beside recently retrieved pheasants in England.