The lab is 11yrs old as of Sunday so we HAD to get her a retrieve, which we did. I could NOT get her to look at me for one second when trying for that shot. She sits there quivering and whimpering every minute she's on station, which for a trial dog, is not good, but she has no loss of drive to retrieve. She did a very nice 125 yd attempt on a widgeon that was diving. Two dogs chased it all over and couldn't catch it so we had to motor out run it down and swat it. I can get accuglass here. Am hoping it's very thin so the parts come together completely. Some birds fall across a channel in grass and you can't find them.... so you just wait until the local ruff legged hawk cruises over, does a double take and drops on them so you can run over and take it away from him. Another time a raven let me know that a wounded spoony that got away had finally floated up around the corner 24hrs after Nancy shot it. Nancy does have stories and just wrote a book on her years of setting up clinics in the Aleutians after retirement.
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