Do you remember the first hunting dog you got after you started duck hunting? I know I will never forget mine. I had just started duck hunting in high school. I was tired of long retrieves on winged birds and I was tired of missing most of the hunt chasing downed birds. I made the big +1 decision that every duck hunter makes at some point in their duck hunting career. I didn’t have a lot of money to spend on a dog. I only had a hundred dollars to spend on a dog, some money for shots, and some money for feed. A hundred dollars was a lot for a dog in the early nineties for a broke high school kid. There was no internet to search for dogs back then. I had to look in newspapers and weekly classified magazines I bought at the local gas station. After talking with multiple litter owners, I made up my mind on a new pup. He was the puppy of duck hunting lab and sounded like exactly what I was looking for from talking to the owner. He wasn’t but seventy five dollars, so I wasn’t killing my expensive hundred dollar budget. HE HAD ONE LEFT. I made the trip in my mom’s car to pick my new full blooded black lab puppy which was over a couple of hours away. We arrived in town to meet the guy at a gas station in town. The puppy was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I gave the puppy’s owner his money and me and my new hunting retriever headed home. Watching this pup grow up, I started to notice some strange things. He beautiful black coat was starting to get longer and the sweet purple dot that was on his tongue started covering it completely. He wouldn’t fetch a bone. I was played. It turned out my full blooded lab was a half chow.
Years later I did own my dream lab when I started guiding. He was everything I ever dreamed about when I was younger in a hunting partner. Working in the yard, we had a Dokken Dead Fowl Dummy. I liked it because it was easy to throw with the rope handle coming off the back. I could throw it far. I also like the hard head on the dummy. It taught the young pup early to not shake the decoy because it had its side effects. I think the dog liked it because it was easy to bite and carry for the dog. I would recommend this dummy to any new dog owner/trainer starting out.
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What are other Dokken Dead Fowl Dummy owners saying?
- “Great decoy for those training dogs” Larry S. Jackson, Ms
- “Best purchase I have made for my dog so far” Ben J. Little Rock, Ar
- “Tom Dokken, the inventor, is the retriever expert” Jack M. Muscle Shoals, AL
