Eight year old Black Lab female "Cricket" (still jumps to shoulder height from a standstill) and 12 1/2 year old English Setter "Smoke" that I adopted by request of his owner at age 5 (he went to field-trialing GSPs!!). Lab is a great hunter as well as retriever - actually looks for game in the field right out of the box. Increase in $ I spent for superior breeding can't even be compared to my previous Lab, who had a wonderful nose and loved to hunt but acted like the guy in the CMT video, "Bubba Can Dance". The Setter is an old bachelor dog in the run at home but in the woods he goes like the hammers of hell. A superior grouse dog by any standard, he came from a way-back breeding at Grouse Ridge and his registered name says it all: 'Smoke 'Em Up!' Can't wait to own another one. KBM
