Tom McDonald Quotations

One highlight of the annual meeting is a just-for-fun hunting contest where we use our dogs to find, point and retrieve pen-raised and released quail, pheasants or chukar partridge. Though there is an element of competition in the contest, most participants are doing this for the joy of hunting with their dogs.

What do you say to a man that basically murdered your husband? ... I'm just deeply sad. I'm not angry with him, just deeply sad.

It's always that hot. We were supposed to get air last year, but we'll lose our home-court advantage with that.

She's a tremendous basketball player. She's the whole deal. She has her body under control more than last year. We're undersized in the post and she was getting it (ball) in spots where we couldn't stop her.

She's been coming to our camps since the third grade. She has tremendous work ethic. She's so athletic and she can do so many things.

I think people are looking for safety and a backup.

She might only weigh 85 pounds, but she?s as tough as they come.

We all help each other. When Mike Haley was laid up with his heart problem two years ago, Jack was the first one on the job.

By creating a multi-layered defense that proactively repels spam and viruses at their source, organizations can now get ahead of troublemakers who are always looking for new ways of penetrating IT systems through e-mail.

One of the features of our annual meeting is that all the members gather in person to have face-to-face discussions about such subjects as breeding policies, canine health issues and testing programs. For example, we have discussed the prospects of including the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association's 'utility test' to go along with the 'natural ability' test we already now use in qualifying our dogs for our club's breeding program. Likewise, there have been some useful debates on how to sanction any breeders who have dogs with serious genetic defects.