ohland
11-14-2014, 06:13 PM
121800
Belle has been working very hard the last two weeks, and other than mice (and deer!) not much has turned up. Winds have been 8-20 mph, today was 9mph and 23 degrees... Some days are really hard for Belle to work scent. Today we had gone out in some grass / weed fields with the normal non-violent experience... Walking back on the levee crown, she was working the strip between the crest and the drainage ditch on the left. She was working long (about 50 yards plus) and we were @ 75 yards from the truck. Then she went longer, crossed the ditch on the bridge (not my first choice...), got across, then worked the far bank back towards the old retrobate and his 16ga SxS.
Put it down on our side of the ditch and the water wolf hopped in, swam across, picked up the bird, and brought it in. Belle loves water. She really does. If we were duck hunters, Belle would get fired up for jump shooting or blind work.
Anyways, she does stand on her hind legs when she feels that it is necessary. Oh, the other bank is private land, but she can't read... Remember, Brittany Spaniels are supposedly a poacher's dog. Look it up.
Belle has been working very hard the last two weeks, and other than mice (and deer!) not much has turned up. Winds have been 8-20 mph, today was 9mph and 23 degrees... Some days are really hard for Belle to work scent. Today we had gone out in some grass / weed fields with the normal non-violent experience... Walking back on the levee crown, she was working the strip between the crest and the drainage ditch on the left. She was working long (about 50 yards plus) and we were @ 75 yards from the truck. Then she went longer, crossed the ditch on the bridge (not my first choice...), got across, then worked the far bank back towards the old retrobate and his 16ga SxS.
Put it down on our side of the ditch and the water wolf hopped in, swam across, picked up the bird, and brought it in. Belle loves water. She really does. If we were duck hunters, Belle would get fired up for jump shooting or blind work.
Anyways, she does stand on her hind legs when she feels that it is necessary. Oh, the other bank is private land, but she can't read... Remember, Brittany Spaniels are supposedly a poacher's dog. Look it up.