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Keep dogs, they're all going to die somehow. Dan died woofing a Gainesburger, some get a case of Detroit Fever, some get cancer and some just get too old to get up anymore and you have to have them put down. In the scheme of things, Dan died doing the only thing he was good for...Geo

I think there was a writer that put out a book or two, more of an opus or maybe an introduction. It had to do with enriching our gunning through the great bird dogs and experiences. I can picture a bronze of that pup in the field trial hall of fame.

I can't. Dan was grown when someone gave him to me. Never shot a bird over him. I have no idea whether he pointed or not; he was never in eyesight long enough to tell. Somehow he always showed back up at the truck when it was time to go home for supper though!...Geo

"Somehow he always showed back up at the truck when it was time to go home for supper though!."

Geo. just because he was deaf didn't mean he was stupid.

Well we've wandered into deaf dogs, so here's a tribute to Abby, in the middle pointing a wily Ks. squirrel



She was "free" when I got her brother Zach (on right and was a great dog). The breeder pointed to her and said "Guess we'll just put her down 'cause she's deaf" and home she came.
Sweet as can be and easily yard/house trained because she just followed her brother around. Spent most of the day pointing/backing Zach (driving him nuts). Never tried to take her out with plenty of other dog power at the time.
This "free" dog cost me about $2000 in vet bills and replacement dog boxes and buckets since she ate anything that wasn't metal. Came home from work one afternoon and she managed to eat the plastic handle on an outside faucet, turning it on full, and flooding part of the basement One Sunday morning we were getting ready for church and I heard this strange noise from underneath the second floor deck where the dogs hung out. She'd discovered that she could strip the lattice work strip by strip, to her great enjoyment and compulsion.
Deaf dogs are usually not right in the brain and sure enough she developed Canine Cognitive Dysfunction at only 8 years old, and totally lost it.

Speaking of setters

Jim the Wonder Dog
http://www.marshallchamber.com/jimthewonderdog.htm



Annie and Dave

Thanks for sharing those sites, very interesting.

JDW, Max was one beautiful dog.

Thank you. I thought I would share a few more pictures of him. I do miss him.
Here is Max at 9 weeks old, first time I threw this dummy out he retrieved it and brought it to me.

A little over 3 months old. The quail I had did not like to stay in the fields, they would rather come and hide by the house and under my truck.


5 months and 3 days old. He never bothered with the quail in the pen, but when they came back to it he would point them. The check cord was just to keep in in line.

14 months pointing quail in the back yard.