Thanks for the story! I could picture the whole set up in my mind's eye with the telling of it!
I was hunting the dove opener with a friend in S ID with his two labs. He doesn't hunt them on waterfowl and not much on the doves, almost exclusively on chukar, huns, quail and pheasants. I had to laugh at the younger of the two, he'd sit there and whine, walk 5-10 yards around where we were standing whining the whole time, stop look at my friend as if to say, "what are you guys doing, this isn't how we're supposed to hunt birds"!