I've had a couple of judges comment on how much drive my little girl has . . . must think she has something to prove to all those big lanky guys. She swims like a torpedo boat -- actually leaves a curling wake -- and in her first stick pond experience in November she was bound and determined to GET that *&(&^^*%$ duck . . . she did more crawling and squeezing than she did swimming. And when she got there the d***ed thing had sunk out of sight . . . so our bird boy tossed her a (somewhat) fresher one so she'd get a reward for all her hard work. The first duck must have sunk to the bottom of the pond, because we sent three experienced dogs out to look for it (one a GRHRCH) and they couldn't come up with it. I hope the fish enjoyed it. . .
And she has ALL her full complement of whiskers.
This is a collage shot of one of our club's training sessions. You have never met a nicer bunch of people - about evenly split between Bubbas and effete suburbanites like yours truly -- with the little Choc.
