Patrick

Long time no chat. Thought I would send an update on the puppy I purchased from you in August. She has grown so fast it seems but I am having lots of fun with her. She has great drive and eagerness to retrieve and has been receptive to training. I started her with live pigeons and quickly graduated to retrieveing Ruff Grouse shot in the field. I took her on her first true hunt at 4.5 months on a week long trip to Southern Saskatchewan. I mainly had her with me for our upland hunting as the geese and ducks were still too big for her to retrieve (she was missing K9s at that time too). She did a great job on her first partridge flush and retrieve and even had a triple on partridge later in the week. She also had her first pheasant retrieve which was a beauty – tracking a wounded bird along a creek bed, through the water and onto an island. I definitely had bragging rights that night!

I attached a picture of her sitting with her first two pheasants. The black lab on the right is also from your Kennel – Dr. Bill Deyo bought her I think 3 years ago.