Re: My little duck dog

On 29 Feb 2008 14:57:43 -0500, shore@xxxxxxxxx (Melinda Shore) wrote:

In article <janet-3FA54D.09530828022008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Janet Boss <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Once again, there was no carrying involved. Nada. Zip. Zilcho.

Well, sorry, *Janet*, but we all know that there's *exactly*
*one* *way* to train a dog and if you don't do things
precisely that *exactly* *one* *way* your dog is ruined.
RUINED. HOPELESS AND RUINED.

Well, if you'd unstick your pointy little head from that snowbank it's
usually stuck in, you'd learn that while there most definitely are
more ways than one to train a dog, some ways are better than others.

And also that there are some things that one *shouldn't* do with their
gun dog puppies, and things that one should do, to increase one's odds
of eventually having a dog become "all that it can be" one day.

But anyway, are you planning on hunting ducks yourself, or
how does this work? I've seen field trials on TV and
haven't been able to follow exactly what was going on, other
than the retrieval part (i.e. how the dead ducks ended up in
the water, etc.). I.e. are you and your husband becoming
outdoorspeople, or were you before and I just didn't notice?

Janet, and many others like her, think that spending a few weekends a
year in a muddy field somewhere will somehow make them
"outdoorspeople". Just one look at Janet's ankle length puffy coat(!)
in those pictures she posted, should tell you all that you ever need
to know about Ms. Boss's "outdoorsyness."

It wouldn't surprise me to hear of Janet getting one of those puffy
coats for Marcie, too. She'll be all the rage at those hunt tests,
that's for sure.

Brrr.

Bay-bee it's cold outside.

<sigh>

--
Handsome Jack Morrison

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming!
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Snow cover over North America greatest since 1966...
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289
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