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She's getting better, almost 8 months old now, still not crazy excited about it but she'll get up for a few throws every now and then and will return items to hand. She's good for about 4-5, maybe 6-7 tosess on a good day, and she's just done - drops the item and just moves on. I've had her out on a couple duck trips this year, just to let her see the other dogs work and hear the guns, and she is interested in carrying the ducks around in her mouth but not crazy about jumping in the water to get one. She did go really nuts over a covey of quail, though, just sniffing and rooting around where they had been sitting, so maybe she's telling me she's going to be an upland dog...
I would not give up. I had one that just flat out wasn't interested, and then when she turned on she was unstoppable . At one time there were five FC/FTC chocolate labs in the US and Canada and four of them were either out of my kennel or one dog removed. I have been around a lot of good dogs and this one was one of the most the most turned on retrieving fools I have ever seen. FC Abby;'s Little Cooper - only ran one Qual and won it, after she aged out of Derby won the first Open she ran and IIRC won the following weekend and was FC at just over two years FTC Chocline's Cigar & Choclines SpitfireI forget the other dog's name All have Hasty's Annie Oakley in the front end of their pedigree. Unfortunately the pedigree of Bower Lake Ben is screwed up all over the internet. He is out of Hasty's Annie Oakley and Barracuda Blue. Not Trieven Anne Teak x Barracuda Blue http://www.huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=10592
Quote from: JDHasty on January 30, 2017, 09:03:36 AMI would not give up. I had one that just flat out wasn't interested, and then when she turned on she was unstoppable . At one time there were five FC/FTC chocolate labs in the US and Canada and four of them were either out of my kennel or one dog removed. I have been around a lot of good dogs and this one was one of the most the most turned on retrieving fools I have ever seen. FC Abby;'s Little Cooper - only ran one Qual and won it, after she aged out of Derby won the first Open she ran and IIRC won the following weekend and was FC at just over two years FTC Chocline's Cigar & Choclines SpitfireI forget the other dog's name All have Hasty's Annie Oakley in the front end of their pedigree. Unfortunately the pedigree of Bower Lake Ben is screwed up all over the internet. He is out of Hasty's Annie Oakley and Barracuda Blue. Not Trieven Anne Teak x Barracuda Blue http://www.huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=10592You're talking about Mark Clarks chocolate who sired abbey?