Celebrating your dog.

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Mans best friend....total devotion, never complains, and ready for most anything w/o  hesitation.  

 

 

 

 

 

[niveker 0]

I probably posted this before, my current best fishing bud, Huckleberry:

 

[partsman 0]

My last lab Chance, been gone for about 3 years. 
Mike.

[Guest]

Mine ate my half HungarianPartridge skin😳

[essequamvideri 0]

Molly at 6 weeks with my oldest. Molly at 10 years with my wife and my oldest. Molly at 12 years as the ring bearer at my oldest wedding.  
 

Michael

[troutguy 0]

I have two Brittany and a wanna be ditch weasel Brittany. I fish with me often. The hunt woodcock, quail and sometimes duck. They point and retrieve. They are great companions and keep me company while tying too, after all, they supply some materials. Hope is orange and 12.5 years, Abby, the liver is 9.5. Zoey the ditch weasel is five. She likes rolling in mud, the incoming ocean surf and laying flat in a trout stream. Oh, yea, she was supposed to be the wife’s lap dog. They all love the soccer goal net on the Jeep with the top down.

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1 hour ago, troutguy said:

a wanna be ditch weasel Brittany

LOL, funny.  Beautiful animals all, Hope looks like she's always hatching a plan in those photos. 

 

On 1/10/2023 at 9:24 AM, essequamvideri said:

Molly

What a great timeline photo set.      

[troutguy 0]

Brittanys are extremely smart. Hope know hundreds of words, opens door knobs and cabinets. Abby, the liver color can open the two part locking baby gate. I was hunting with two other guys and I told Hope hunt left and she did. One guy said, “Why don’t you use simple one word commands?” I replied cause I didn’t have a GSP. 
 

When we hunt quail and they run instead of holding, Abby runs out one hundred plus yards and works back sweeping until the quail are trapped between the two dogs. I never taught them that. 
 

The sad part is Hope is over twelve with some health issues, so I did not hunt her this year.

[troutguy 0]

If I might ask, what was wrong with you?
 

How old are you?
 

My liver and white Brit, is a rescue. I got her when she was eighteen months old. I was her third home. I self trained the orange one to hunt with quail wi gs and then live quail, a lot was just her natural ability.

Abby, the liver, would walk, but not hunt when we went out. I took her with Hope, I took her with other dogs. One day, she pointed a woodcock. She retrieved it too. 
 

If you can get a couple of live quail put them in a mesh bag and hide them. Let your dog find them.  Keep doing it and make it a fun game. I made a trap to catch the quail back.

Even if your dog doesn’t get trained, enjoy him. Three is not too old.

You, be well. Hope is my orange Brit. In 2010, my Brit Maddie was killed when my youngest son who was house sitting let the dog out to great my wife and me when we came back from a week in NY. She ran after a stray cat and was hit by the only car on the road. I laid on the road and cried. Two days later I found out that I had kidney cancer. My wife made me get another dog. I got Hope, reluctantly. I didn’t want to go through cancer and my heart hurt from losing Maddie. My type of cancer could have been fatal. I couldn’t think of a dog name, finally, I realized that I had no Hope. So that’s her name. 
 

Let your dog be your strength.

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Every dog you have, you will outlive.  Except the last one.

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Hank is going on 8.  He’s sired a few pups in the neighborhood but nothing to pedigree.  Guy down the road sent word need to send some child support checks..🤣