The dogs don't understand that we are not hunting any more. Soon we'll have woodcock in and should be able to get out for some runs. Until then, they have to deal with "house life" sometime traveling with us and generally being included in as many things as possible. Every dog gets his/her own time whenever possible -- going on a short trip, getting breakfast at the drive through, riding shotgun to the farm. With four, it takes time and creativity to make them each feel special -- time well spent.
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“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.”
― Jim Harrison
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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