Excited Nitro

[fabsroman]

Last week I went deer hunting and Nitro saw me load up the truck. However, he had to stay home. My wife told me that he whined all day.

Today, he watched me throw my waterfowl parka and bibs and my shotgun in the car's trunk, but he got to come along. The entire ride to the farm, which is about 30 minutes, he was resting in my lap shaking. I know he wasn't cold because the heat works really well in the car and it was on. I know I was toasty.

In the field, while he was sitting in his blind, I could see him shaking like crazy.

Do dogs usually get this excited to go hunting. I know the two goldens I used to hunt with would wag their tails like crazy when they saw me getting out the camo, and one crapped all over the place once when I left him and only took the other one.

Dogs continue to amaze me.

[BILLY D.]

fabs

typical behavior for a dedicated hunting partner. my lab would sit perfectly still and just quiver all over untill he got a few retrieves in and then he would finally settle down.

i swear they could pick up his quivering in the earth quake labs with the richter scale.

you have a good companion.

[rubicon]

Fabs, Rusty and Leeann do the same thing. They start the minute they see me getting gear ready. I have two sets of crates, the house crates and the travel crates which I keep in the garage when not in use. They run to those travel crates and you never heard such banging and slamming around as they do inside them and thats with the gates open. Poor ole Rusty was shaking so bad down at Deale Island I took my coat off and wrapped it around him but it didnt help. He wasnt cold, just excited. I kinda figure thats their passion, and they are getting to do what they live for. And yes they never seem to amaze me- Also, getting off subject here but did you ever notice saomeone come around that your dogs just didnt like? If we were only as good a judges of caracter as our dogs!

[multibeard]

You should see my old lab when I ask her if she wants to find some birds. She bounces around the house like a puppy.

She will be 12 years and 5 months old on Dec 10th. She still does a pretty good job for as old as she is. Duck season ends on Sunday but she will be staying home if I do go. Just too cold for her old bones and mine too for that matter.

It is not fun getting old!!!

[fabsroman]

MUltibeard,

The alternative to getting old is much worse than getting old, to a certain degree.

Rubicon,

I hear yah about dogs being a better judge of people than people. I have no idea why, but it seems as though a dog can tell what a person's heart and soul are like. Lucky for me, Nitro likes all of my friends. Then again, I have gotten rid of the bad ones over the years and have only kept a select few as my friends.

[rubicon]

growing OLD aint for sissies!

[Jabba]

My dog s LOVE to go. Even just going to the cabin is a treat even when we don't go hunting. Camp is GREAT fun.

Cooper never stops hunting if he is outside. On the porch or in the yard, he's always looking for birds or squirrels or rabbits. He'll sight point pigeons thru the windshield.

My ole GSP Lucy, could recognise bird cover. SHe'd ride pretty good till the cover started looking like birds.

Something that amazes me is that they know that a pointed gun is BAD. Mine do. If you point a gun at them while cleaning or while it's disassembled... they back out of the room.

Dogs are my favorite animal... I like them better than people for the most part.

Jabba

[rainydays]

Love the dog stories guys. My old yellow lab about the same as yours. Terrible when deer season comes. I have to load the truck and sneak out of the house after I've put him out in the backyard. Almost feel bad sometimes. Better hunting buddies can't be found.--tr

[remingtonboy]

oh my goodness remingtonboy resufaced!! I've been MIA 4 a while friends. Thats what a divorse will do 4ya. Last time i talked to u Fabs I was married and you weren't. Now you are and i'm not. who'd a thunk it!!! I went though hell but my gold dog never missed a day of training! Catch ya later - mind over mater

[fabsroman]

That is exactly what I said when I saw this post. Glad to see you back on here, and I am sorry to here about the divorce. If you lived a little closer to me, I'd offer to take you out for a drink and talk about our dogs.

Did you hunt at all this past season? Hopefully, you got the time to do so. I got a little hunting in, but nowhere near what I usually did. Then again, it was a lot more than the last year.

Anyway, glad to see you back, even if you do shoot a Remington. LOL