After seeing mjbgalt's thread about his dog Sidney passing away it put me to thinking about some I have had over the years and had to say goodbye to. So here are two. The lab, Drake was 15 and just finally gave out. He had an active life up until his last month and I had to have him put down. We made many trips to South Dakota pheasant hunting. He was everyone's favorite out of our hunting group. If you didn't watch him he'd steal your sandwich right out of your hand. Some of the best days of my life were spent with him.

The beagle, Joe died 2 years ago this coming July 7th. Drake was the year before on April 13th. Joe was 10 when he died. He was the boss around the house even though Drake had 45 pounds on him. In this picture they chased a cat up the tree. You'd have thought they were coondogs the way they were treeing and barking. Joe died from a tumor that grew back after 3 years before having had surgery to remove it. Both Joe and Drake were rescue dogs. Man I miss them!

For me life just isn't the same without a dog around so we have a new beagle. He'll be 2 May 1st. He came along after Joe died by about a month. He is right here with me as I write this post. He's got allot of personality! Toby is his name. The grandkids named him. Of course he's their boss!

Getting hot!

Cooling off...

Finn on the left is still with us. Just turned 6 and with a little luck will have new buddy around the end of July.

Duff in the centre we lost 2 years ago at 14 1/2

Mic on the right passed on last year 1 month shy of 17



Our daughters rescue - Chase. She had him for 3 years and he left us a month ago at age 13. Last 3 years we think were his best as he got introduced to the great outdoors



Our first two Nova Scotia Duck Tollers -- 1970's - Aasta and Shandra



Great memories and great times in the field with all of them.

This is Bandit. (The one in the water trough with Bailey)

What a cutter!

He's 6 now.






Buster passed a few years back. He was my once in a lifetime dog. A real partner!

Buster and Bandit are from the same breeder and bloodline in Kansas.

Buster.

Dog has a better mustache than you man.

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The real Dillon Buck.
He is pushing 11 and in good shape, sleeps a lot now days.
Can't do the zoomies in the yard for long.
We all know the days are getting short, tears have been shed when the inevitable
Was mentioned. Best dog we ever had, and we've had a few good ones.

We lost our sixteen year old Cocker four years ago. Debated getting another. Decided on two. Ruby on the left, Jade on the right.

I've heard several here refer to "life time" dogs.... and I got to thinking about that. I thought my old yellow lab, Dusty was it. But now I have a new lifetime dog , Timber, my Akita
So can we have two lifetime dogs? I think so.....

Freya, keeping my recliner warm.

Ike just turned 10

Millie is 13

Stewart is a rescue. Age unknown, probably 14+

Nothing like having a dog to go hunting, fishing, watching TV with. This is Heddie Munster the Munsterlander

And about the ones that have sadly gone before. They will never be forgotten. There's room for my ashes to be dumped here if the kids/wife follow my wishes.

Marley...............

a pup here

Gone Sept '21 @ 14 YO

Marley...................

Jack

2005-2019

I guess a guy can be proud of some of the previous pictures, but Sparky continues to please me year after year. He can trail a bird and still keep an eye on me for signals. He is starting to lose some of his hearing...

Bella 15 month old lab

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VooDoo the squirrel dog 9 months

My shed huntin' pardner, Rocky.

Chopper the oldest friend past away 2 weeks ago at 14 years and 1 month

Don't like'm. Won't have one.

My lab "Jack" at 7 weeks.

Great dogs!

The Big Girl.



The Little Boy, he's also the boss.

Great pictures.
I just haven't been able to squeak a dog into my life, being single and working long hours and other reasons. Just hated the thought of leaving them alone all day.

I found this video funny so I'm throwing it in here, It's a crazy guy I guess, says he paid $50 for this little registered dog and won't get any bigger and it loves Big Mac sammich's

Your big one reminds a lot of our little one color-wise and thickness. Ours is a runt at 25# at nine months, the sole survivor of two born with an over bite the size of Texas requiring a canine to be pulled. Crazy spirit though. The blue is lean and lanky and can run, jump and spin like nothing I have ever seen. They really have brought a new life to us.

My daughters pit is the most awesome dog ever and I hate pits!

Clyde is 15. Some arthritis that but otherwise going strong. He likes Dairy Queen.

Chevy Chevelle 10 month old Greyhound

Dairy Queen????


Joe Biden weeps 😃

Clyde looks more natural than Joe eating ice cream, and has a higher IQ too. Wish he was our President...

This dog likes Big Al’s. A dog could teach Joe Biden a thing or two.

What, no sprinkles?

Meh...our roadside dairy dip also has Korean bulgogi. 😃

But I never hauled my knuckleheads up there for either. Imagine the farts would be epic. 😩🤢

Rez dog.

Best dog ever: Reggie

Still in training: Beauregard

Youngest red boy (Cooper) is eighteen months and weighs 62 pounds. Big boy for an ACD.

Blue female (Tess) is 52 pounds and she's over weight.

This was my favorite. Jojo. She was super cold nosed, had a deep baritone voice and a great disposition. She would really grind on a track. When this pic was taken she had been treed for over 5+ hours waiting on a bunch of fat guys (me and my buddies) to make it over the mountain.



I liked her enough she won an all expenses paid trip to the Chinese Wall.



She died unexpectedly last year at just under 5 years old. I almost got out of hounds when she died.

Her brother (Sarge) and her were awesome together. He isn’t near as good now that she is gone. He relied on her more then I thought. He seemed kinda depressed for a while. Here he is on the right with my pup (Crash) singing a duet.



My new favorite is Copper. I started him as a pup, sold him, regretted it and just got him back. He has a great nose, a lot of energy and zero quit. Here he is helping an old man shoot a bobcat with a Canon a couple months ago.



Sarge, Crash and Copper with part of my crew. My buddies dog Thor is in the back.

Pudelpointer Finn doing what he does.

My Scottie lad, Knockando

Great pics of your dogs gentlemen.

Have had a German wirehair in my life since 1986. Makes any kind of bird hunting fun.

Griff my first


Then Thor

Abbey the rescue

A bit of overlap

The current two

Daisy just turned 1

My Rat Terrier Annie behind the house yesterday.

Finn the Wonder Dog and his new assistant!

Great picture my friend!

👍

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oh my.......my heart just skipped a beat

I miss puppy breath........):

👍

This morning.

Here's a pic of the best dog I've ever had:

If I had been drinking anything......I would need a new phone.

I'm gonna frame this and hang it in my office.

A treasure, for sure:

7 month old GSP.
Should be ready to go for this bird season.

Maybe also a tattoo or remembrance stickers on every window of your pickup?

Sadie on the left, Rudy on the right.

Max, on the training table at 1 year old.

Earl on point.

I'll just cover the ones we've had, I'll not dive back in to the mom & pop legacy, that would exceed the pic limit...

Our first two, Mox (GSD/Rottie mix) and Azhia GSD/Border Collie mix), circa 2000 where we lived in LaMaddalena, Italy. They were 11 & 12 by then, one (Mox) stayed there, in the rocky soil of the Med.


Inherited her (Hope, a big Sheltie) when mom passed in 2006;


These two were rescues, from The Collie Rescue of the Carolinas, Layla and Milo, Rough Collies, two of the absolute kindest hearted dogs I have ever known, they passed within a month of each other in 2019.


We have this guy now, got him at 2&1/2, Brody, Rough Collie, still full of crap two + years later, but he's a good boy (more or less)

lightshot

What breed is Beauregard?

Dude, I think that little dog is fixin' to gnaw your ear off!

I'm ignorant.

If you're asking about mine, which one?

He has a long road ahead of him. I think he is down to 8 or 9 teeth.

We have had 3 Yorkies and they have the worst teeth of any dog I have ever been around.

😁

My Beauregard?

Standard poodle with "pardi" coloring. Smart as hell at just 10 months old.

10ga., sorry, I meant Morewood's dogs.

Thanks, Morewood. Great looking pups.

Here is my buddy Ranger fishing walleyes.


Here is my buddy Ranger at the Vet saying goodbye after 17.5 years.



Good by little buddy.
I will miss you.

1lb trigger. They better act right

Whiskey. Does not mix with any trigger.

Right up against the hardest thing we ever do. God love him.

Working pups for the win!!

work?

Gone but not forgotten:

And somebody said have you seen how unfarking beeeeeeeleeeevable my life is. Makes jumping out of airplanes look like nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7BayQYu3Ik

Nyx's sister.

I had to search for this pic to take a pic.
Summer 2007
L to R
Cookie 1 yr old Staffordshire terrier/ Rhodesian Ridgeback mix
Nicole 14 yrs old

Lindsey 7 yrs old
Sonya Black lab 8yrs old

Sweetheart 6 month old husky mix
Alexis 12 yrs old

Those are a couple of great pictures!

He works hard for his toys.

My latest and she’s a dandy. 7 months old now.







Way cooler and appears to be way smarter than most humans these days. 👊🏻

Our little firecracker

Bailey dog, sure miss him!

These two will be 3 next month.

15 weeks and smart as a whip. Daddy is German King blood line

Can't wait for duck season!

New neighbor to Joe and Drake. That cat actually got to the point of picking on the my dogs.

That thing looks a slow day merganser cripple that took half a box of shells to die before the dog hard mouthed on the retrieval.

Wtf have you done to Jules??? 🤦‍♂️😅

Quite the pair!

Nice! Those German King Shepherds can get huge - I read up to 150lbs.

My youngest German Shepherd isn't a lightweight, weighing 111lbs. at his last vet appointment.

We took him to a Schutzhund training class where there was a German King Shepherd, and man, next to that dog Rocky looked a cocker-spaniel.

First pair of English Setters. Buster and Dixie Belle. Picture taken in trailer after a morning’s hunt in South Texas.
Both pups are only fond memories now. Hasbeen

year old. Lots of birds his first year



Just got him snipped




older griff 6 years old






My vizsla I had to put down a few years ago. Great bird dog

Barry those two are brothers from the same litter, they are glued at the hip.

Pic from yesterday while out cutting wood.

Out by Water Heater Hollow

The bat dog!

His daddy is just over 100 pounds and he has a 17 month old full brother that is 112 pounds

Is that near Car Tar Creek?

R.I.P. Bella;

This is Moby (like the big white whale Moby Dick). He was the smartest dog that ever lived. As an example, one day I took him out onto the front lawn and put the newspaper in his mouth then took him into the house and gave him a treat. I did this just once. The next day there were five newspapers on the front lawn. I sure miss him.



This was Pepper in 2010. She's now 14 years old and nearing the end. A good pointer.

Squirrel on the patio roof

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Miss Izzy !

Is Miss Izzy a Munster?

My granddaughters got lucky, I've told them time and time again not to screw with the Pitbull.

One of the best 3 legged beagles to ever run a rabbit.

Killed pheasant, cottontail and hare over her.

She mothered some really good pups too.

Rock and Slim

Lady..... Loyal, loving and a hunter to the core.

Izzy is a German Shorthair Pointer



1000mph or;

My boy Cody, passed at the end of February in 2021. He was "the" dog

There they are dad!

That’s some awesomeness, Alamosa!

🦫

Don't like dogs...wouldn't have one

They stink up the house and eat too much.

On the road with the wife.




Looking for something to chase in the bay




Being “jacked up for a Christmas picture by mom”




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Damn, I haven't hunted birds with a dog since I had labs. Didn't realize heelers would bird hunt but I'll give it a try. Mine herd and that's what they do best but we'll be giving bird hunting a try.

Layla, 10 year old beagel mix.

Hey, Rocky, wanna go hunting or are you just going to lay around butt snuggling with your Mom all day?

Do everyone's heelers hunt but mine?

was a productive weekend.

Ain’t got none no mo!

Ours didn't, but she loved running around the property, with 8' long, 3"-4" birch log in her mouth !

My Buddy I just lost . Finally motivated me to learn to post pictures

best poem for friendship day







with My Dad




Me with my brand new buddy 13 years ago
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into some quail when my boys were younger

Quit leaving them at home when you go hunting..... You make it part of their life, they'll take right to it.

dog is in there, i think.

Hey Otis, how's it goin?

You too Vinnie!

loves to be in the boat

or the beach

Otis is good.
I am aging.
How's the beard?

Otis, ma Man !!

Who's da fugly hooman ?

Love the Tollers...
This is Abby, she is going to be 10 n a couple of months...She is my second Toller, I have to dig out images of my first, Maggie.
I am just waiting on the word from Abby's breeder about another pup, coming into heat anytime she says.

Good boy Milo, good boy !

R.I.P. Milo !

Coming back from the groomers, with a summertime buzzcut. Not happy about it. LOL

Glad to hear that.....................aging ain't necessarily a bad thing............compared to the alternative.

Beard is getting near to trimming time.

Pulled down taught from the chin, it reads about 7.5" on the measuring stick. Just hanging there doing its thing, maybe 6.75"???

Lookin' a bit scraggly, so I figure to cut it back to about 4" or so for the summer.

Something doesn't seem right in this picture - can't quite put my finger on it.

Too funny Las !!

Four Munsters posing for last Christmas.



Four Munsters posing with newest Daughter and Law and Youngest Son.

Along these lines, I popped this copperhead last night, right in front of my dad's house. His four dogs did not need to find it and get bitten.

I have a similar pose....

posted many times before

Jack........

The rock on a local ledge

Then Jack in person

Damm I miss that guy.....

Cool pic!

Jim,

I haven't had a dog since I bought a digital camera, but it looked like this. A very intelligent breed.

You had some good friends.
Bet those dogs could hunt.


This breed likes to snowboard. Lol!

Great pictures and it looks like he enjoyed a great life.

This thread is awesome. Makes me smile after a schitty day.

Hopefully you had one waiting at home after your scheidty day.

That's as good a reason for dogs to exist as any.

Timber.......is that a tracking collar on your dog?

My avatar. Too lazy to post more!

No, just an e-collar. Helps when running blinds. He's gotten better with age, but he's hard headed and sometimes doesn't like to listen to my handles.

thanks for reply.

Nice shot. Do you find your Tollers seem to enjoy upland a bit more than waterfowl?

Finn likes both but really kicks it up a notch when we are hunting upland. I noticed this with our previous 4 as well. This shot was from his morning run at a pheasant festival. My buddies GSP had the afternoon and had identical results.



Need to see pictures of the new pup once you get it

If we’re in the pool, Rocket is in on his “boat”. Swimming ain’t his thing but he’s hell on varmints.

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These guys are gone now

Current. Hope to be adding another DD (female) to the mix soon.

When we gave Miss Lillie SCB her laptop... we THOUGHT cat videos would be enough...

BUT NO...

$1,456 worth Omaha T-Bone steaks showed up today.

Fugging bitch dog...

You gentlemen have had some fine looking dogs. There is an old Remington ad that states "Every man deserves one good dog in his life and I have had mine. The ranch just isn't the same without a dog here but I have buried more than my fair share and don't care to repeat that pain. Kudo's to you gentlemen.

Little blood first light.

In SoDak.

This sumbitch has a few months to get ready to fetch a pheasant or 30.. 😂😂

I’ve been raised around biggame dogs, and labs my whole life, I’ve heard the same thing, seems they’re all perty fuuckin good. This new yellow bitch is exceptional…

My buddy, Wilson is not with us anymore but the Bokkie girl will be 10 in June.
Bokkie

Wilson

Bokkie pretty much rules around here and sleeps wherever she wants. Usually right beside me.

Jamie the beagle is queen of the house these days



Daisy and Jenny were an awesome pair




Jenny in her element

Wish I could easily post pics of the labs, Peet and Pepper
And the Chessie bitch Rio...

Rio was my wife's favorite dog of all time, and we've had a few over the last 40 years
I believe the wife would have walked any city street anywhere without fear with Rio on a lead.

He needs to get laid

A couple of days ago.

Current status

Finn. Part weiner and supposedly beagle but I think rat or fox terrier.

My grandpa and our male Yorkie, Andy.

He and grandpa had a special bond.

I don't like dogs. I don't have dogs. I would never have a dog. I am completely honest.

From last week when Clover, my 3yo GWP, rested as I photographed in the high desert sandstone of Arizona.

These are for dflave, tho she ain't no pitbull.....

Thanks for posting on this thread.....

You don't know me very well, do you?

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I hope this was enough to change your mind.

These were two of my best....the shorthair "Annie" was the best of them all... she made it to about 12. The wire hair "Gus" was a big dumb lover boy but probably had the best natural abilities of any gun dog I've ever had.




Now I have this Rat Terrier/Jack Russell mix female that is my baby.... she is right up there with Annie as far as being a strait up companion.... she goes damn near everywhere with us.....deer hunting she only ranges about 50 yards and just pokes around in the brush....super intense but calm and focused at the same time..... I can't tell you how many bucks she has busted out of there hide outs lol. She is a blast.

Grumpy died of cancer 4 months after this picture.

He looked pretty happy to be called Grumpy.

Nice picture

Mostly just a bunch of pictures of dogs you can buy at any dog store or kennel.

This is a real nice dog, he can watch 2 different flocks of birds at the same time and doesn't eat much. Sparky has been a life long companion and beats all the pure breads hollow...

Neighbor had one pretty close to that, throttled by a car in days past. Our heelers came from two different ranches in north Texas, $300 a pop. Great dogs.

I lost my best friend Tess a week ago Friday. Poor girl had cancer and chemo therapy wasn't an option. We brought her home to be comfortable and Friday night were woke up by her thrashing, tongue hanging out between her teeth and very heavy breathing. Poor girl, we loved her and she loved us. RIP Tess, my sweet girl.

Nice looking dog!

Sad 4 your loss.

I have Tess's twin brother( except he likes to eat may more that Tess). First Heeler I've owned and don't know as I'll own any other breed from here on out. Best dog I've ever had, goes everywhere with me, I know it'll be a tough time if I manage to outlive him.
Sorry for your loss.

Good one! Ha! I fixt your post.....Grin

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My brother just rescued a 1 year old male heeler.

Here he is, first day at work !

Busted

Now there's a smile!

Kid Rock biting at rain drops. Yeah, I dunno why either. But don't stick your hand in there.

Getting big in a hurry.

I keep my dog in the back seat of the truck.

If in the front seat and an air bag deploys, I doubt a dog would survive that event.

Bernard. My full sized Pom. Died last August. Aged 16 years, 4 months and 7 days.

Cute smile. RIP Bernard.

BTW, that 16/4/7 was how long we had him. He was rumored to already be a year old when we got him.

The black ones are easier to keep track of in the winter. Then we have to keep them in the shade all summer.😎

He's been gone a while. You've probably seen him before. We still miss him. tried to replace him, it didn't work......

Mutant beagle #1:

Izzy's Mom had a litter last night, can't wait to pick out her new sister !!

We need some!

Ha, ha, soon as we get them, I'll post them.

Might be an argument, about who is picking Izzy up tonight.

She does "daycare" at the breeders kennel.

Can't lock her up for 10 hours, at home, needs company & mucho physical exertion.

Mutant beagle, meet mutant GSP;



& Mutant Great Dane x Rhodessian Ridgeback;

Sophie, the 120lb lap dog;

Squaring off in preparation for a knockdown, drag out, play fight, which is their favorite thing to do together.

Your wife's going to be angry you let them have that.

^^^^^^AWESOME CRITTR^^^^^^

Haha god damn I just peed a little!!! 😂😂😂

That's a fine looking heeler for sure. And thanks for your comments guys, regarding Tess.

Here's my heeler, he loves him some mountains