Carol's "rescue"
Chesapeake, Buster was saved from the shelter, finishing his
championship in nine shows and earning his Working Dog (WD)
title after only one hour of training.
Buster had an incredible nose
which he demonstrated on our first hunting trip with him
about 2 weeks after being rescued. My partner shot a pheasant
in our end of the field some 60 yards away from where Carol
was hunting with Buster and Sacca. We couldn't find the bird
and called Buster over to help out. He went to the area of
the fall and immediately starter running away from us. Some
70 yards later he crested a dike, took a sharp right turn,
crossed a dirt road and headed across another field.
About that time we thought he
was going to run away and everyone was calling and whistling
for him to come back. As he disappeared into the trees some
400 yards from us, I started to head for the truck to drive
over and search for him when someone said, "here he
comes".
As he got closer, Carol said,
"what does he have in his mouth"? We soon realized
he had a pheasant, still quite alive and mad as hell. The
bird had only been shot through the wing and had apparently
been running through the underbrush since he hit the ground
and Buster had followed the blood scent to retrieve him.
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