There are no good words for this loss, my friend George Lander expressed my sentiments about the Lord reuniting us with our beloved dogs in the next Life, and I believe that- God is just Dog spelled backwards anyways
Best sentiment I have yet read was in the First issue of Gun Dog- maybe 1988- "Where to bury a Dog" by Ben Hur Lampman- I have a copy of that ode, as well as a poem by Kipling, with the FDSB or AKC papers in a special folder with their tags- Lady, Mollie, Dixie, Duke, Montana, Murphy and my Lab Khartoum is sleeping by my chair as I computer-type this.
Also, a fine gun is a fine gun, you don't need to apologize here for having an L.C. Smith- at present I have just a few more of them than I do Parkers, but not a 16 gauge-- Looks like ducks in the foto with the Elsie, not sure- I use 12 bores out of long standing habits I guess- but if they fit your shooting style, they are all good- 12-16 and 20 bores!
