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Unread 01-19-2025, 06:16 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Bill Murphy View Post
When my Wirehair, Eva, was in training as a pup, she got hot on a covey of quail. The covey retreated to a blackberry bush. Eva was on a training lead, dragged me into that thorny bush from which I emerged bleeding profusely. I had no idea a young pup had that much "pull". Another time, she climbed a cedar tree, and came down with a dead squirrel. These Griffs and Wirehairs have quite the prey instinct.
Love that!! So wish you had a video of those or a photo. Impressive watching these pups search for and retrieve game. I don't shoot rabbits or squirrels over our Griffs because I'm afraid they would like that better than birds and begin running past grouse and woodcock in NH to chase a snowshoe. I do have a photo somewhere of our first Griff pointing a snowshoe under a small Balsam Fir hiding from the 6" of snow on the ground.
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