Meet our Winchester, the best water dog we've ever had, bar none...and we've had quite a few.
In the coming months he'll be training the other dogs [Benneli and Barrett] in the River... ice finally went out about 10 days ago.
Posted on 05/11/2019 1:21:08 PM PDT by DFG
Years before I knew he would be my duck dog....I didn’t hunt at the time....my pit pup was searching the water’s edge at a nude beach near Eugene, OR. Hot Augudt day, and Nemo finds a mummified muskrat. Man, was he happy. He brought it up to the grass and started in with the terrier head-shakes on that thing, sending a fine cloud of muskrat hair and funk over three guys that were sunbathing.
Meet our Winchester, the best water dog we've ever had, bar none...and we've had quite a few.
In the coming months he'll be training the other dogs [Benneli and Barrett] in the River... ice finally went out about 10 days ago.
LOL!
Just be sure the bayah doesn’t get to them!
That one has been around enough for y’all to have named him!
Saving him for bayah season?
“...sending a fine cloud of muskrat hair and funk over three guys that were sunbathing.”
Three guys sunbathing? Was Peter Buttplug visiting?
Get bears on my place all the time, had one up on the front deck several nights in a row a couple weeks back.
I don’t shoot them unless they become a danger to my wife or my dogs.
I would turn on the porch light and give the bear about a 3 minute head start, then let the dogs out, you could hear them chasing the damn thing all the way up the mountain.
Bears are a lot faster than the dogs so I didn’t worry to much about them catching him (or her).
In 15 years I have only had to shoot 2 when they got to aggressive, even during the day.
Eugene, OR, late ‘80s. I didn’t inquire as to their names.
I believe up here, you can hunt them w/ dogs.They seem to stay shy of the .45 fired near them, into the ground.
I heard, most often, only tethered dogs become snacks for a bear. I hate to thing about that.
Good luck. and Carry on.
Always loved and wanted a good bird dog.
I have had the pleasure to work with a few when I met other gunners in the field that had dogs.
They are just the greatest thing to watch when they are working a field or the upland sage.
Never been duck or goose hunting, but I have been working upland game birds for the last 50 years.
Watching those boys or girls track and flush a Chukar Patridge, Quail, Pheasant, Grouse, or Prairie Chicken is the greatest treat of a lifetime.
Yes; I ENVY you and your boys and girls (the dogs).
The best upland bird dog we had, was the envy of all the other hunters.
[Day off from work]
He had a funny habit; if the bird he brought back wasn't dead yet; he'd find a puddle or stream, and drown it and then retrieve it. Really. Don't know, how or where he learned that, but it's true.
What ever would the ‘Trievers think about a cat in the house?
We once had a cat who *thought* he was a dog; followed the dog all around. Everywhere.
Then the dog wasn't immediately available , cat would curl up in the dog's food bowl and nap until he came home.
Then all was well; somehow that cat knew the dog checked his food bowl the first thing, when he came into the house.
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