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New dog to replace old one
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:32 pm
by Black Lab 48
Some of you may remember back in the summer I posted that I had to put to sleep my 12 yr old black lab hunting partner. Hunting without a dog for the 1st time in 11 years is no fun. Well I started a new chapter by getting my 3 little boys (and myself) a new black female for Christmas. I had forgotten how much trouble puppies can be. My pen is not ready yet and my wife is about to throw me out. I'll have it ready this weekend. She is 9 weeks and loves to fetch a tennis ball already. I guess I will pull out my old training book "Train your Retriever" by James Lamb Free and start getting brushed up on my teaching.
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:58 pm
by dukbum
good luck to ya i know it is hard not having your hunten buddy! i dont know if i could go on now without mine....call me lazy but i havent picked up a duck or dove in 3 years now
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:37 pm
by gator
originally posted by dukbum:
call me lazy
ok, LAZY...
...hehe, gator
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:48 pm
by tigercc
you're right, huntin without a dog does suck... lost mine 2 years ago, and my best huntin buddy lost his this past summer, ambulance ran over his dog, no sh@!
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:57 pm
by missed mallards
i got my little brother a new puppy also for christmas. BLF 9 week's old. smart as all get out. movieng away this summer and he want have my dog to piss around with.
How do you pottie train a dog? my dog's outside dog and for some reason doesn't go in the house but with this new puppy it's a hole different story. any advise. thanks.
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:45 pm
by Super Black Eagle
CRATE TRAIN!!!
man it is a life saver!!
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:00 am
by teul2
tigercc wrote:you're right, huntin without a dog does suck...
I would say that 75% of the reason I go duck hunting is for the dog.
Nothing spells success like the smell of a wet and muddy retriever!!
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:42 pm
by mudsucker
Gator, You beat me to it!
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:59 pm
by Meeka
You got one at the right time. (s)he will be huntin this time next year.
My Christmas pup just Thursday held steady on the shot and marked a big fat mallard down 60 yards through VERY thick buckbrush and crawled and swam a straight line, at least as far as I could see, which was only bout 15 yards. Then I had to listen, and man I was nervous. Bout 3 minutes later, all hell broke loose in there. There was splashin and thrashin and limbs breakin and quackin. It musta been a hell of a chase for about 2 minutes. Then it got quiet and he nosed back through to me about 2 minutes later with a very pissed greenie!
Last year huntin wasn't the same. The story above makes me hunt hard.
You'll have a lot of fun. You oughta start lookin at the gun dog forum. Go toi the index page here to find it.