Ain't that the truth.....everyone that has ever had a good dog(s) can relate...
They look at you with those eye to say...."I love you daddy"....like grandkids...
It hurts when you lose one them....but they always give you so much more back....
Had a shepherd back when along with a little yellow dog (sort short mini lab??? fat little thing.)...Along with my lab.
THe lab was my pheasant and duck dog....and a good one....but the other two looked so disappointed when they had to stay home......so I took all of them.
Shepherd didn't like water....but would go thru or swim.....kinda like "OK... if this it what it takes ...I'll do it"
She was a sight hunter...and figured out the pheasants were in the tall weeds , grass and brush....so would look in all of them.... Kept about 20 feet in front of me and if one flushed she would stop and look around at me, as if to say...HERE"S ONE.... are we hunting these today, Right?
If I brought up the shotgun, she would take off after it.... she was like a center fielder, running it down and hold it down till I got there.
If it was something I didn't want to shoot.....she would look back...if I didn't react, she would just go back to hunting.
The little yellow dog ran down thru ever trail and hole in the brush, chasing anything out...but hated guns...When I would bring up the gun...she would just wince and wait till the shot was over....would get tired so ended up getting carried back to the truck in my game bag.
Lab just hunted with her nose and sneak to flush birds run down cripples , a retrieve them.
I really still miss my "team" (like I do all my dogs)......we got a lot of birds, covered a lot of ground and enjoyed the hunt.
There were times I hunted with a broom stick...they didn't care ....the hunt was the best part,.... fresh air, friends, dogs, rain, mud.....chilli and beers after.
Feeling a bit nostalgic this evening...got back from a funeral of another hunting partner, Wally 87...the father of friends we all hunted together.
Ducks, geese ,deer, fish....camp stories.... and even an owl story.
RIP Wally...
BTW how does a dog eat a Mora #1....and not get cut...
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