Rill is at that stage where she will pick up almost anything and carry it. We have a great supply of kindling at the back door as she always clears the yard of fallen branches. I doubt she'll be an antler dog, but I am hoping she's a natural retriever -- not all that common in a Gordon.
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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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