Ten Years of Gundog Central!!
It's been a great ride and has turned into a very rewarding business. I didn't plan on starting a business when I launched this site 10 years ago, it was really just to help out the kennels I was building websites for and to have a place to list the few dogs I was training on my own. Gundogs Online (http://gundogsonline.com) had a nice classified section but there wasn't really another site out there that catered to bird dogs like I wanted to do. Since I launched Gundog Central in 2006 at least a dozen of other sites have popped up that have tried to so the same thing, but we've been fortunate to always remain at the top. The sites changed many times over the years, some of those changes not as accepted as others. During that time I've launched a sister site Hounding Central () to focus on just hound dogs. Over the years I've had some great corporate partners in Loyall Dog Food (http://www.loyallpetfood.com) and SportDog (http://sportdog.co) that help make the site possible.
It's been pleasure working will all the different kennels across the country and seeing all the photos of everyone bird dogs. Please continue to send me any suggestions and requested improvements that you have with the site(s).
Here's to another decade,
Jeff Davis
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