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This story is not about any of my dogs.

I was hunting quail along the Republican river near Arapahoe, NE. I was staying at a very run down motel/chicken coop type motor lodge.
In the center of the turn around parking lot was a nasty, abandoned, built-in, gunite type swimming pool. Obviously not used in some time, and left with no cover.
I was drinking a beer, and there were a couple young lads drinking a beer, and sitting at a picnic table out by the black lagoon. I moseyed on up to share a little conversation.
We talked about our hunting, and I asked about the little Chessie pup that was laying in the dust beneath our feet.
The dog was 8 mos old, and this was it's first western trip. He was a little rough yet, his owner said.
When we reached the bottom of our communal coolers, the matter of being out of beer was raised. The Chessie owner asked me if I had ever seen a dog swim, and retrieve from deep under water. I said "No, never from anything more than about 2 feet or so on a diving duck". So, he then set the hook.
He said, " I'll bet you the next 12pk my little dog here can retrieve a 3lb brick from the bottom of the pool across the fence there." I said, "You're on."
He proceeded to pull a painted paving brick out of the motel owners little decorative border of brick that lined her flower beds, and walked his dog at heel over to the pool yard. He rubbed the brick on his sleeve to get the dirt off, and then threw it into the deep end of that nasty pool.
I'll be a son of a gun, but that dog ran to the side of the pool, and dove right in. In the dark!
He stayed submerged for maybe 20 seconds, but he came up with that brick in his mouth, though he couldn't climb out of the pool without help.
I was happy to go get more beer. Just to have seen that.

Mandy would always sulk for a while when I released a hen she caught. Of course after the next bird she pointed she'd be over it.

Love the picture of the shotgun in the lap and Brit between the knees. Looks like like intense concentration on the game at hand.

JDW, yes it is hard to understand. On another hunt, a companion's viszla [sp??] pointed a pheasant in some thigh high grass. It flushed and retrieved the bird, then refused to leave the same spot. Finally, a bobwhite flushed and we missed. Same thing , again the dog pointed at our feet. Another quail, which we got. Yes, a third quail point, which we got, too. All this activity was within a 10 foot radius.

Before Annie goes hunting I double vest her, one vest protects her chest and the other her back.

She is fearless when going through Russian Olive thickets and blowing through barbed wife fences. Prior to double vesting her she has been to the vets to get sewn up way to often. This is Annie double vested and ready to go.



Last winter a hunting buddies wife bought a winter vest for their Springer and when she discovered that the vest was to small, she gave it to us for Annie.

Annie accepts wearing vests and my wife put her new winter vest on Annie and went for a walk in the snow.

The next morning as I was putting on a winter coat getting ready to feed our stock, Annie put a paw on my leg and nosed her winter coat.

All last winter and before going outside, Annie made sure that she was decked out in her new winter coat.

Thank you to everyone who posted their amazing stories about their hunting dogs. Now that my Lab, Mandy, is gone I am starting over with another female black Lab pup. Her name is Mazie taken from her AKC name "Ornbaun's Amazing girl". She is 5 months old and loves retrieving. Throw a shakled pigeon and she's on it in a flash and brings it back just as fast. She is not "soft" and can take training corrections in stride. I think she will be an outstanding hunting dog.

Bet you folks can't clean those sissy French Brits' ears as easily as I can clean my American Britt Willa's ears. Her head pops off for rinsing in the sink and easily snaps back on.

With a left hand which easily blocks an entire Brittany Spanial from view, it is easy to see why you failed so miserably in your first professional attempt to become a gynecologist...Geo

Geo, Just because you'd Drathaar not try to snap off Willie's head doesn't give you the right to dredge up my past. Gil

The kennel that I got Annie from handles puppies from birth, paying special attention to the ears, mouth and feet. As a result of the breeder's efforts, I can brush Annie's teeth, clean her ears and rub her feet between the toes and she is quiet and relaxed.