There is stuff in the works here -- I just wrote a high-up retriever trainer (Charles Jurney) who just HAPPENS to live less than 5 miles from the college my daughter is attending in the fall . . . might as well take the oldest and youngest daughter up there at the same time. Also, I wrote Mary Howley, the lady who bred Shelley's mother -- she's as high-up a breeder as Jurney is a trainer, actually higher, probably the best breeder of field trial dogs in the country. Her dogs won the national field title five years in a row -- one dog won it all THREE times, the only bitch ever to pull that feat off. I'm looking for a cousin of Shelley to start right this time . . . we won't be going field trial, but I'd like to take a pup to HRCH and maybe just for fun to the Grand.
I need to start quail hunting in S. GA. Then I can ride my horse and work the dog at the same time . . .
A new pup eh? Well, won't that be fun :~D