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Offline yorketransport

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The adventures with the new puppy
« on: November 01, 2013, 09:30:47 PM »
It's been about a month now since I picked up my WPG pup.  My son and I drove to Caldwell Idaho to pick her up from Idaho Wells Griffons. We drove just over 9 hours and I didn't tell the boy where we were going until we got there. Needless to say he was pretty excited when he figured out what we were up to. :tup:


The boy got naming rights for the dog, so we ended up calling her Pepper. She was about 3.5 months old and the last pup from the litter, so I got a great deal on her. I was originally trying to get a dog from Larry Harkins at Idaho Hunters Extreme Griffons but the litter just didn't materialize. Like a fool, I told my son about it and said that we wouldn't get the dog after all. He was absolutely heart broken. I went on a frantic search trying to find a pup somewhere and ended up at Idaho Wells Griffons. They only had one dog left, and the dam and sire of this litter came from some of Harkins' dogs, so i figured it was worth trying.

So far she has been the best dog I've ever had, including all the ones when I was a kid. We had her house broke and bell trained in 3 days, and she responded to her name after about 4 days. She's an absolute sweetheart and is affectionate almost to the point of being annoying! :chuckle: When we got her home the first night it was about 1:30 in the morning (we made the trip to Idaho and back in one day :o). I went in to take a shower and while I was in there the kids came knocking on the door telling me that the dog was "broken". I got out to find Pepper locked on point on the kids' pet rabbit BunBun who lives in the house. I had to pick the dog up and move her to the other room to get her to snap out of it. :chuckle: I think that she'll do just fine as a hunting dog!

The only problem I have with her is that she's a full on runner. I typically get home from work around 7:30 or 8. As soon as I get in the door the dog meets me with her leash and wants to go out for a walk. The problem is that she wants to run. I am not a runner at all. After working 12 hours I feel even less like running. Either way, we run about 1.5 miles every night and by the end of it the dog is practically dragging me back to the house.  :chuckle: It does do a great job of burning off some of that extra puppy energy before bed though, so it's worth it. I just wish the dang kids were old enough to let them run down the street with the dog!

I just thought I'd give an update to the earlier threads I had about looking for a dog and say thanks to all of the advice that everyone gave me. All I can say is that the waiting and searching were all worth it. I couldn't possibly have asked for a better companion. I'm pretty excited to get her out in the field hunting next season.

Andrew


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Re: The adventures with the new puppy
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2013, 09:34:50 PM »
a rabbit pointing griffon omg that cracked me up  :chuckle: :chuckle: cute pup and cute kiddo those two are gonna have fun growing up together :tup:

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Re: The adventures with the new puppy
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2013, 10:52:02 PM »
So cool to see a picture of a happy boy with a bird finding friend. In a world of fancy phones, video games and computers, happiness can still be found with a boy and his dog. Enjoy.

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Re: The adventures with the new puppy
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2013, 10:54:58 PM »
wow!


take your story and change a couple names, make it a Brittany and that story could be mine exactly.

My son ended up naming the dog "Libby"

 


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