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Hunt Country Pets' Page
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Our animals are so much a part of the tradition of our family and of the farm. It's hard to express the joy they bring us. If you have visited the farm and winery over the past few years, we hope you met Gus (at left). Gus is a Bernese Mountain Dog (or just "Berner"), a wonderful old Swiss breed descended from the Newfoundland and Great Pyrenees. Gus is our Official Greeter and he loves his job unconditionally. He is eight years old, and a sweeter dog there just can't be. | 
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Molly, the Great Dane of Jonathan Hunt and his wife Caroline, is now two years old and 125 pounds, but still a happy rollicking puppy with absolutely no idea how big she really is. Mouse, their 9-pound Rat Terrier, is more focused on the possibility of a rodent escaping his watch than on his giant, younger “sister” (see above right). |
Misty (below right) loves her rides with Joyce. Gus enjoys trotting alongside the "girls". Natalie (at left) has turned 16, and she's still a dedicated "mouser"! 
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We have a cast of guest stars at the winery, too.
Callie is the sweet, rambunctious,
one-year-old Alaskan Malamute of our winemaker Christopher Wirth. Says Chris, "With our kids grown up and
leading their own lives, Callie's my new baby.
If there were such a thing as Disobedience
School, she'd be on the
Dean's List. But we love her to
death."
Freddy,
the three-year-old Standard
Poodle of our marketing manager Jim Alsina, also comes occasionally to
the
winery for the day, particularly when Jim's wife Cecilia visits her
native Argentina. When Jim and Chris can coordinate schedules,
Freddy and Callie love to play together. They charge through the
vineyards, raise a
cloud of dust or splash mud on the dirt road, and eventually collapse
in
exhaustion, with tongues "fully deployed" and a grin of satisfaction on
their
faces.Marketing manager Jim Alsina's Standard Poodle puppy Freddy comes to the winery occasionally to rough-house with Molly until they both collapse in exhaustion. |
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