Our Story

DOGS Unlimited has been a family business since 1971, but the part of the story that doesn't fit on the About page is the dogs themselves — three generations of them, with national titles to show for it. Here's how that part goes.

It started with a Weimaraner

DOGS Unlimited has been around since 1971 — you can read that part of the story on our About page — but Alan Davison's own history with gun dogs starts later, in 1993, with a Weimaraner named NAFC FC Robynski Deaugh Davison. He earned his National Amateur Field Champion title at a Weimaraner Club of America national event in December 2001, documented in AKC's own published championship records.

That dog's son, FC AFC Davison's Orion on the Rise, MH, known around the place simply as Reko, picked up where his father left off. Reko earned his Field Champion title with 28 points, added an Amateur Field Champion and a Master Hunter title on top of it, and finished 4th out of 62 starters at the 2001 AKC Gun Dog Championship, Retrieving division, at Branched Oak Field Trial Grounds in Nebraska. Both AKC's Wall of Fame and the Weimaraner Club of America's own historical records confirm it: sire and son, owner of record, Alan Davison.

Three German Shorthaired Pointers, one multi national champion

Alan eventually moved on from Weimaraners to German Shorthaired Pointers. Solo and Deuce both went on to earn Field Champion and Amateur Field Champion titles of their own. The third, Tripp, is the one most people in the gun dog world already know by name. His full registered name is a mouthful, NFC FC AFC AO Keg Creek Tripps to Win, but his record speaks for itself: GSPCA National Futurity winner in 2017, GSPCA National All-Age Grand Champion in 2022, and NGSPA National Amateur Champion in 2025, on top of many local and regional placements in between. Tripp's full AKC and FDSB registration, along with a year-by-year breakdown of every placement, has its own page on this site if you want the long version.

Buying the company that built the gear

In July 2005, Alan and his wife Marcia bought DOGS Unlimited from John Ingram and moved the business to Colorado. By then, Alan had already spent more than a decade training and competing with his own dogs using the same kind of gear DOGS Unlimited had been selling since 1971, so taking over the company felt less like a career change and more like making official what was already true: this was a business run by people who used their own products.

Still running dogs today

Tripp's son, FC AO Llano Action Jackson, is carrying the family record into the next generation. Handled by Josh Nieman, Jackson placed 2nd at the 2025 GSPCA National All-Age Grand Championship, the same event Tripp ran that year, and went on to run in the 2026 NGSPA National Championship. Alan is still out hunting upland birds in and around Colorado. Marcia isn't a hunter herself, but she loves the dogs just as much, and between the two of them, that's still what this is all about.

Every title on this page is a matter of public record with AKC, GSPCA, NGSPA, and the Weimaraner Club of America, linked above for anyone who wants to check.