Our beloved "wally" is gone

[chuck brunner]

It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of our beloved "Wally". This was traci's little pointer and the cornerstone to my gun business "Greenes Guns"
This little dog hunted all over the country and was a favorite of Uncle Rich Anderson. He was injured approximately 6 months ago by a delivery truck at our farm and never fully recovered from the trauma to his front leg. We put him down on mothers day and I can tell you it was one of the roughest days Traci and I have experienced..........Please go home and love your bird dog tonight in remembrance.......Heres to you Wallace.....you will be missed to the end.

[Brett Hoop]

Sorry for your loss. They give so much and ask so little.

[Daryl Corona]

Chuck and Tracy I'm so sorry to hear of Wally's demise.

[Mills Morrison]

Sorry to hear the news . . . Losing a dog is tough

[Scott Janowski]

I am very sorry for your loss.

[charlie cleveland]

i am sorry for your loss also but you will have a lots of good memories of him....charlie

[Daniel G Rainey]

Sorry for your loss. Dogs that you raise, travel with and hunt behind are a important part of the hunters family and we always miss the ones that are gone.

[Dean Romig]

Chuck and Traci - I couldn't even imagine losing my little setter.

Hang in there - you'll get through it in time.





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[Bill Davis]

My sincere condolences Chuck and Traci! Wally lived the life all fine hunting dogs should experience. You'll meet up again someday...........BD

[John Dallas]

Our gun dogs take us to the nicest places.

You'll meet him again over the Rainbow Bridge

[chuck brunner]

guys thanks for the kind words........We all go thru this....they are here for such a short time and leave such a lasting impression. They are familyWhat a hole in my chest!

[Bill Murphy]

Chuck and Traci, Linda and I are with you all the way. Our Wirehair, Eva, who you know from the Side by Side circuit is 11 1/2 years old, very active, but the inevitable is coming. Bird dogs are the best of the best, not to take anything away from a loyal retriever. At 71 years old, I have been given permission to start another dog when Eva leaves us. Obviously, because of my debilitated physical condition, it will not be an English Pointer, but a Wirehair is very high on the list. I left for the Army in 1967, leaving my Dad with a very high strung English Pointer, Ranger, but he survived cancer and a heart attack by parking the car next to a productive field and waiting for Ranger to go on point, then slowly walking in on the point. Dad used his remaining strength to great advantage, and had no trouble harvesting a Pennsylvania cockbird on a regular basis for the two years I was away "doing my duty". Chuck, the 20 gauge A-1 in the pictures I showed you is still on the radar. Bill and Linda Murphy

[calvin humburg]

Brings a tear to me and Ol Sam's eye. Godspeed Chuck

[Stephen Hodges]

Chuck and Traci-

"“The perfection of a life with a gundog, like the perfection of an autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process.” – George Bird Evans, An Affair with Grouse, 1982

God Speed, Wally...........................

[George M. Purtill]

Chuck
That is so sad. We are all thankful to always have two dogs around. It makes the hole seem smaller in your heart.

[John Allen]

Chuck and Tracie,Sorry to hear about Wally.Our dogs become our cornerstone as you said. They also become an extension of ourselves and the things we love.Try to think of him as making a long cast and know you will find him on point in the future.

[davidboyles]

Chuck I share like the others for you and Tracie to have lost your companion. They are here such a short time and we must treasure every moment in their playfulness, serious hunting moments and their soft eyes as they look for our approval. They touch our hearts everyday and when they are in danger we hover over them like our children. They are our children and we owe kindness to them everyday. Bless your dog who you will see again in the greatest quail field that ever existed. I guess I would have finally met you at the Sothern SXS last month which my daughter and I attended but perhaps another time. Nobody can ever take away our memories of our 4 legged companions not even time itself. Take care. David

[bob weeman]

So very sorry for your loss. They certainly are family and the best of souls. I think we have more to learn from them then them from us. There is nothing like their unconditional love....Wally was very lucky to have you and such a wonderful life...

[Alfred Greeson]

So sorry for your loss. Ours has been gone two years now and it just takes time but I miss her every day. May God give you the strength to remember the good times and smile through the tears, going through hoping he would recover has made this much harder for you. As a recent article in Shooting Sportsman said, "Understanding that you cannot replace a one-of-a-kind friend--dog or man--is the first step toward getting through the loss of that friend." but as Gene Hill said, "anyone who ever said you can't buy love never bought a puppy." and you can only thank God for the blessing and know you did everything you could to give him a special life and we know you and Tracie did all you could do. Good days are still ahead and you will always have great memories of your special friend.

[Eric Eis]

Chuck and Traci, I am so sorry to hear this and to have it happen on Mother's Day............. But you know he's up chasing birds and he has no pain just like the old days. RIP Wally. Eric

[Mike Franzen]

Awful, just awful.

[todd allen]

Chuck, I am very sorry to hear of the loss of Traci`s beautiful pointer, Wally. I am not very good at losing dogs, but I know this is what we sign up for each and every time we bring a new puppy home.
I pray that we are reunited on the other side of the bridge.

[chuck brunner]

You guys are the best.....Traci and I are blessed to have so many friends. What kind words. Our faith is what gives us hope. What a reunion it will be!

[chuck brunner]

* Dean Romig directed me to this. No truer words spoken
Amen!

Where To Bury A Dog

There are various places within which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else.

For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.

If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there.

People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

by Ben Hur Lampman

[Russ Jackson]

Hello Chuck , I haven't been on site for a few days and just read your post ,I am very sorry for your loss !!!!!!! Since we had to put Old Chip down a couple of years back , we haven't got another and I have just about given up Bird hunting ! I go with my one Buddy once in a while and his Pointer but it just isn't the same excitement as watching your own Family Member and the one you put so much time with perform what they love most !

[Rich Anderson]

Chuck and Traci you have my deepest condolences. Most of us here have been where your at and would gladly sign up to do it all over again, the pain of loss doesn't outweigh the years of joy and love given unconditionally by our canine family members.

I only met Wallace one but he wiggled his way into my heart and has always remained there. For some reason that I can't explain I instantly fell in love with Wallace and on more than one occasion I tried to get him to Michigan to hunt grouse. Wallace left his mark on me and it's one that will never be forgotten. I miss him.

[Gary Laudermilch]

There are not words to express the grief of losing a bird dog. No prose is fitting nor will it soften the sorrow we feel. Yet, as others have said, I am sorry to hear of your loss.

A bit over a year ago I lost my oldest setter. I buried him at the edge of a habitat improvement project that has turned into first class grouse cover. His collar and bell is affixed to his headstone. This spring a cock grouse has taken up residence on a log not 10 yards from his grave. He drums constantly and every once in a while I hear the tinkle of Trappers bell. I think they are enjoying each others company.

You too will find such a place to put Wally to rest!

[Garth Gustafson]

Chuck and Traci,
My heartfelt sympathies go out to you. We put Teddy, our Springer down 2-1/2 months ago and his loss still tears at our hearts. We feel his presence in the house every day. Your special memories of Wally will always sustain you and provide comfort knowing that Wally was loved and lived a full and great life.

Garth

[Garry L Gordon]

A dog's life is too short as it it, and to have it curtailed like this is even more heartbreaking. We don't know each other, but we have the loss of a being that shared life with us in common. I won't say I know how you feel, but if it's as I have after losing one of my hunting dogs, all I can say is that I hope the pain of this loss eases with time and that you can soon smile at the good memories that will come with time.

Hold those you love close...every day.

[Allen Peterson]

Very sorry for your loss.

[chuck brunner]

We are grateful for the time we had with Wally. I am touched by the heartfelt sympathy that so many have expressed and know that if you hunt or share time with your dog children we are going to experience the bitter side of loss. Thanks again my friends!

[Leighton Stallones]

I know the mental pain you are going through. We lost our loved JAKE a few years ago and we are still in mourning.

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Remember the good times and watch the movie The Purpose of a Dog, Gary

[William Woods]

Unless you are a bird dog person you cannot know the range of emotions one experiences with the life and death of a bird dog. I am sorry for your loss.