The making of a HUNTER

[FlyPhrogs]

Okay...I'm just probably getting excited...but we took Asher (13 weeks) to a local pond (cold water!) and he loved it. He even retrieved the "thing" a couple of times. I SWEAR he marked when he saw a duck (I do have a picture!).

I guess I can at least KIND OF brag here!
Heather

[Jo Ellen]

You should be excited!! It does come naturally, all you have to do is provide the opportunity. Of course, more serious hunting skills require training, but I can see Asher is very much in touch with his golden self in these pictures :)

Reminds me of Daisy. I love taking her to ponds. She's become quite the fisher dog. She caught 13 fish last summer. Sometime when you're at the pond, take along some dog food. Break the food into little pieces and throw it into the water, not too far in. It probably will need to warm up a little bit first (depending on where you live). But fish LOVE dog food, they will flock to the food. Asher will have all kinds of fish swimming around his feet. And then one of these days, if you let him, he'll catch one of those fish.

This is some of the best fun I've ever had with my dog.

:woofpup

[FlyPhrogs]

Asher is going to be boarded this summer while we are in OK and TX for a month. The man who is boarding him will be training to hunt. That is what he does for a living (well, takes hunter out in season, trains dogs in off season). He is also a friend of ours. We are excited that Asher is showing some good signs/interests.

That is interesting about the fish...I'll have to pass on to hubby.

Heather

[SteveR]

I'm no hunter and I don't normally take Sinbad (20 mos.) to the local pond so when I walked him there yesterday boy was I surpised by his actions. We walked right down to the water without his even noticing the ducks, he had his head down and was sniffing everything. I tell him to look at he ducks...he lifted his head saw them and waded out chest deep. He would have gone further but I had a leash on him. He stood erect head and ears up, right paw lifted and tail straight back. Looked like a picture from a hunting magazine. I was a proud papa. He's no stranger to water since we go boating every summer but this is winter and it was only 40 degrees out. Cool instincts.

[spindog]

I just love seeing those photos! My Dad trained his black lab with whistle commands to hunt duck. We have so many great photos of her retrieving her ducks. My favorite picture is the one where she is sitting on the front deck of the boat, the sun was just coming up & she is sooooo focused on the sky ..... almost looks like a statue. It is a profile photo of her. Wish I could share that one with everyone it is just soooooo cool.

[FlyPhrogs]

The good and the bad of that day...Asher swalled the styrofoam seal of a jar that day. 17 days later, this past Wed, he threw it up! My husband had been sure he had passed it, and he had shown NO signs of problems. I sure hadn't found it in his poop, and I was LOOKING!

I'll have to take more pics the next time we go to the Pond.
Heather

[Jake1230]

What great photos! Now I am really looking forward to introducing Jake to the river bank in our neighborhood!

[FlyPhrogs]

What great photos! Now I am really looking forward to introducing Jake to the river bank in our neighborhood!

Just watch for litter!
Heather