Here is another "non-gun dog" that lives to hunt.

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Runt of the litter. Barely survived as a puppy. Born in Oct in the onset of a bad winter. Had to fight for a tit. Frozen water bowl most of the time. I bought her from a rancher who said she was too small, legs too short for herding.

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She always was a fetch maniac. Newspaper, frisbee, balls, ducks.

Her very first retrieve I sent her after a big nasty wounded hissing Canada goose that I had knocked down. What a fight. I shouldn't have sent her, but she drug it back quite a ways before I could get there and wring it's neck.

Later she earned an HRC Started title in regional hunt tests. That is where this second picture is from.

These days she has had back surgery and is on heart medication. She can't go far anymore but she still loves to fetch a duck at the local pond or go on a real short pheasant hunt.