Happy Birthday Notorious Black Alder
Our girl Alder turned 9 today. Hard to believe the time could move so quickly. She won't win any bench shows, but I'm sure that if I had trialed her from horseback, she would have won a few, even when up against "white dogs." She is the hardest going Gordon we've been owned by, and it took a lot to bring her in for foot hunting. But she puts on a show when she points. Paradoxically, she is the most calm and quiet house dog we've ever had the pleasure to share a couch with.
She wins the record for most injuries acquired through hunting because she goes so hard. She never met a barbed wire fence that could stop her. I keep thinking she'll slow down some, but hunting with her is a good cardio workout for sure.
Happy Birthday, Alder!
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'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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