There’s nothing about what Fred owns. Does anyone know what sort of dog he has? I’m betting a lab; he seems like the lab type. A real man, in other words.
If Fred Thompson is having to film Law and Order in New York City in live in that area, he may not have space or time for a dog. I would see Fred as more the type to keep a big hound because a hound fits the rural Tennessee image. I think bird dogs and other pointers are popular in Tennessee as well. I would imagine Fred Thompson walking through the brush hunting quail with a favorite bird dog rather than hunting ducks with a lab. I’m not saying that I’m right. That’s just the picture that comes to my mind.