How to Babysit a Bird Dog
Prairie Rill does not like rainy days, or any day she can't get out and chase birds for that matter. She's not the best house dog, but Elaine uses a technique that worked with our Cedar in her last days -- open the blinds on the front window and let the birds outside "babysit" the dog. She'll point as long as she can see a bird.
Hey, it works, honest...until she saw the sundial and thought it was an intruder 
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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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