I am a single parent again

Ray

Ray

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Luckily she is almost house broken, almost crate trained, and already pretty much spoiled with all the attention. She is a very mellow dog and was not rattled by the trip home. Would have slept through the night too if I hadn't gotten up to relieve my back ache. But she went right out side and took care of business and was back to sleeping under my chair as I type this. Dreaming puppy dreams and yipping in her sleep.

Autumn, "Lady Autumn of something something" on the paperwork sometime down the line.

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When at my ex's house letting our daughter show her around Autumn found the first "den" like place and took a nap for an hour.

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This is probably going to curtail the hunting this season being a full time single dad again.
 
Dang! I've been holding off and was even thinking AWS...but what a cute little pup. Take her along on the hunts and let her smell the birds and enjoy swimming and all stuff related to a gun going off.
 
I grew up with Springers, but the cold and the snow up here always made them a lot of care and comfort work (hair cuts in the winter to keep the snow out of the house). So I was thinking Boikin or AWS but hard dogs to find up here. So when the co worker found this litter on tuesday and told me there was a small female left I had to check her out. Went over on wednesday with the daughter in tow. Told her were were going to meet a new friend, but not what kind of friend. Autumn's calmness appealed to me a great deal. She still gets after the tennis ball though with some serious drive even if it is only a 5 foot retrieve. The mom was a trim 65 pound dog so if she hold to her being the smallest of the litter she should be just the right size for the boat and the truck.

We will see about the hunting this year. She is a little bothered by new noises, but not by ones she is used to like the truck or lawn mowers. I will have to read up on the gun noise training recommendations. Our old springers were so birdy that they were never bothered by the gun noise. My last springer pretty much freaked out when the gun went off and screwed up the retrieve nearly every time by hunting harder and leaving me to pick up the grouse on my own. Crazy mut.
 
Ray,
Great looking lab. Hope she brings you many years of great hunting and personal companionship!

I currently have a springer. She is a great bird dog. But she doesn't fair well in the blind when it is real cold, even when wearing a neoprene vest. So I am thinking about a lab as another companion. After seeing your piks, you might have convinced me. My wife thanks you.... NOT! That's a whole separate post.

Good luck with Autumn and keep us posted of her progress.
 
Ray,
I thrilled that you tool the leap and got yourself a fine Lab!! Mal will love her and I can hear you already do. Read up on breaking her in to the gun noise and she will be fine. Can't wait to meet her.
Jesse
 
Jesse, she is going to be all right for a blond. She already tells me what she wants and I jump. Mallory does not like the chewing on the fingers stuff as much as I do.

I tried a few loud hand claps today while playing with her and she looked at me like I had a problem so we may be making a nice transition through the obedience stuff over the winter and getting her used to pops.

I have been wanting a dog for a while, but just didn't get after it. Mallory really pushed for one after she and her mom and aunties back in Maine bought her grand dad a little black lab in August. Mallory and I have both been keeping up on our tasks this fall so I figured it might be a good time to start looking and wouldn't you know it - one fell in my lap.

Mallory was practicing her viola tonight and Autumn howled along in key. This is going to be a fun little dog.

Tomorrow is the day to build the dog run on the back of the garage and un seal the old dog door. Figure better to get it all done now than in 3 feet of snow in two months.

Been out lately? How is the skiff doing? Read on the other site where you were picking up after some folks last week at Mud Lake.
 
Ray,
just take her out in the marsh. Even if you dont shoot she will learn about the boat and the thousand other things that go into a hunt. Put the deeks out and watch her look at the birds fly by. I think you have a good one there. And your daughter looks to be in love.
Do you have travis's puppy post?
 
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