We’re Jon and Margaret Prescott, located in northern New Jersey.   We bought our first DD  in 1971.  We have owned, trained, and hunted dogs in both Europe and the US.  We belong to the VDD and believe that this organization and its 11,000 members are the reasons the DD is so capable and successful today.  We train here in New Jersey and at our summer camp in New York State (right), with our local VDD Chapter and with various NAVHDA groups as well.  We hunt in New York State, North Dakota,South Dakota, and the Jersey shore on a regular basis and have made occasional trips to Canada, Arizona and even Germany when possible. Our dogs have hunted pheasant, ruffed grouse, sharptail, huns, quail, ducks, geese, hare, and rabbit and have occasionally tracked and recovered wounded whitetail deer.  They have also jumped from boats to retrieve brant on the ocean, stalked snipe on tidal marshes, and retrieved sandhill crane from the CRP.  We do all our own training and feel that this allows us to better evaluate the dogs we own.

at night, in the pick-up or maybe a motel room when we’re on the road.  We believe in the standard and that dogs should be representative of the breed.  We personally “vet” every puppy we buy and every dog that is considered for our breeding program.  We also like dogs that develop early and show a willingness to get down to work at a young age. Although testing is a valuable assessment, we place greatest value in “measuring” dogs under real hunting conditions on wild game. Every young dog we start spends time on the prairie, in the grouse woods and duck blind where we assess its ability.  We will not breed any dog before we have seen it work for at least two adult hunting seasons.   We never test dogs where we have trained-all our dogs are tested on grounds and water that they have never experienced before.  We believe this to be a better “test” of a dog’s ability and stability. We like medium to large, athletic, upbeat dogs with the "switch" - calm in the house but energetic when working.  We prefer dense, minimum care coats.