In 2019, the Jewish Light introduced Burton Wice along with “Daisee,” his American Brittany (formerly Brittany spaniels) field champions. Wice, a retired research endocrinologist from Washington University School of Medicine, is one of the few amateurs who successfully breeds and trains his own dogs for national field competitions.
A legacy of champion bird dogs
Sadly, Daisee passed away earlier this year at 12 years of age but her legacy lives on with her offspring Gin and Tonic (“Ginee”) and littermate Miss Wendy Peffercorn (“Wendee”), as well as with Daisee’s granddaughter Miss Carona (“Rona”).
All three dogs live in the Jewish home of Burton and Sharon Wice. Rather than getting groomed for conformation events, the Wice dogs regularly romp around the backyard or the countryside getting in shape and honing their skills. Those skills revolve around finding and pointing to game birds. In field trials, Brittanys and other bird dogs are judged on their ability to locate and point game birds in a simulated hunt. Birds are not killed in these competitions…