366 days ago....
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:56 pm
The little pup in my avatar made her first trip to the duck camp, December 13th, 2009...the avatar picture was taken then...I named her Pearl....
She's come a long way since then, she went on her first hunt on November 20, 2010...Picked up 6 Spec's (white-fronts if you will) 5 teal and a Greenhead that morning:
Since then has made five more hunts and picked up 42 more ducks and geese splitting duty with more experienced dogs:
She's even learned how to handle those geese quite well:
This past Saturday she got in her first picture with the duck board at the club after a 15 retrieve morning:
She didn't even let the ice bother her too bad the next morning:
I have a few more that I may post later...but I wanted these up to give T-Bone a chance to show some pics of Pearl to his daughter...and to say thanks again to T-Bone and Doc & Nash for having the litter that she came from (she has been a joy since she came home with me), AND it also to thank Steve Vires for the good job he has done getting her ready to go this year!!!
She is still a puppy, and we have had some puppy issues, but she is so far ahead of what I expected out of her that it takes the mistakes to remind me she is not even 14 months old yet....
She's come a long way since then, she went on her first hunt on November 20, 2010...Picked up 6 Spec's (white-fronts if you will) 5 teal and a Greenhead that morning:
Since then has made five more hunts and picked up 42 more ducks and geese splitting duty with more experienced dogs:
She's even learned how to handle those geese quite well:
This past Saturday she got in her first picture with the duck board at the club after a 15 retrieve morning:
She didn't even let the ice bother her too bad the next morning:
I have a few more that I may post later...but I wanted these up to give T-Bone a chance to show some pics of Pearl to his daughter...and to say thanks again to T-Bone and Doc & Nash for having the litter that she came from (she has been a joy since she came home with me), AND it also to thank Steve Vires for the good job he has done getting her ready to go this year!!!
She is still a puppy, and we have had some puppy issues, but she is so far ahead of what I expected out of her that it takes the mistakes to remind me she is not even 14 months old yet....
)....my pup is at Steves and I am going to make a short hunt with him around new years at a friend of mines in Tunica and I cant wait to see him. Glad Pearl is doing great!
(especially some that she help spoil, i mean raise, from birth!)