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Originally Posted by todd allen
No doubles, but two birds that required two shots.
Today was magical on a couple of levels.
The most important thing that happened today was that Alley, my elderly GSP, got to work one more day doing what she lives for.
I think today may have been her last day in the field, and close to her last day with us.
13 years old, and riddled with tumors, we're close to the end. She is struggling to get up now.
It's pretty much touch and go now. I wish I had filmed her today, lumbering out to make her retrieves.
Looked like a rocking horse trying to run. Memories.
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Todd,
Sorry to learn about your Alley. A video of her last day would be bittersweet, but I'm sure that the day in etched in your mind's eye ands will be forever. Our dogs stay with us to our dying day.
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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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