fender66 said:Dang I'm glad I started this again. I think I love your dogs as much as I love you guys.
Thanks for sharing.
Dispo...that's a great photo of Camp. Love it. How did you go about training her to be a bird dog?
In reality its just in his blood I can tell he was bred for it. I searched for a chocolate lab for a few months and didnt see any for sale, my girlfriend insisted we go check the pound and I was totally against it. We saw lots of black labs we went to the very last set of kennels and I saw him and boy was he excited to see me. She didnt see him and the girl that showed us the dogs wasnt very sociable she basically just walked us through. So she was walking us back up front and I said hey im not ready to go gotta check this pup out. He didnt want to do anything other than retrieve a ball. We took him home that day and I knew he was gonna be a good hunter. I worked with him a little bit as a puppy but I honestly havent done as much with him as I should. The very first time I took him to the water we were just sitting there and some canadiens came flying about 15 yrds above us honkin and he looked up and just stared at them like he had been watching birds his whole life. He is still learning, this season was his first to hunt and he hasnt missed a bird yet even found a few lost ones. This past weekend he made 2 50-60yrd retrieves all in the water and I was definitely excited to see him ready to go right afterwards..I was planning on getting those birds from the opposite bank when we left the hunt.
I think he was 11 weeks when we got him...here is one from when he was a pup (still is lol)