Tricky Dick Kennels to debut television show
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SELMER, Tenn. — A family-owned kennel that has won 12 national titles soon will be debuting its own television show. Bill Moore has been called the “Babe Ruth of Bird Dogs.” He’s not only renowned in the town of Selmer but across the country, and his trophies prove it. Moore began a family legacy 35 years ago. “I gave $10 for an old dog, and I started bird hunting him, and we got a pair of pups and broke them,” Moore said. Tricky Dick Kennels is named after one of the first English Setters bred there, a national champion who was also titled Champion of Champions at the age of just two. That was in 1984. After that, Moore was hooked. It didn’t take long for one of his grandsons, Chris Mullins, to get hooked too. “I was pretty much just born into it,” Mullins said. “So ever since I was 10 years old, I have been competing in these field trials.” Mullins won the national championship with one of his dogs in 2010, and now he’s taking his love for dogs and combining it with another passion — film. “We’ll be videoing all these trials, going to the national trials, and while we’re there, we’ll be hunting while on the road,” Mullins said. Mullins is a production assistant for WBBJ-TV and said he’s able to use that experience plus his experience out in the field with his dogs to put a show together. Soon, Tricky Dick Kennels will be featured on the Hunt Channel. “I have people helping me produce, write some ideas, and I have tremendous support on this thing,” Mullins said. If you ask Moore how to pick out a champion, he’d probably tell you it’s instinct. “I’m going through them, picking up the ones I like and that’s the ones I’ll run,” Moore said. But the next time Tricky Dick Kennels brings home a national championship title, it will all be caught on camera. Mullins is set to debut the first show with the Hunt Channel in October, and the show is set to run until March.
