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Originally Posted by Mills Morrison
The weekend after Gator went on his last duck hunt, Harry and I went hunting on the river and left him due to it being a bit too strenuous for his old age. He sat by the door and whimpered over an hour after we left, according to Julia. I still regret that morning.
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Mills, I have had similar experiences with my dogs. I’ve never been able to shake the regret from some of them, but it still haunts me.
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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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