Follow-up Friday 4-19-13

We are joining Heart Like A Dog  for the Follow-up Friday blog hop.

It’s the the blog hop that lets you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

Hosted By Heart Like A Dog

Hosted By Heart Like A Dog

Monday Mischief–Photo Bomb

hemmingforddogblog  wrote:

Thunder really doesn’t want to go near a Canada goose. They are vicious birds. Not what you would call goodwill ambassadors.

True, however as Storm showed us last Fall, a goose is no match for a Chessie.

Storm's First Goose

Storm’s First Goose

Read about her battle with the goose here.

Misty Shores Chesapeakes asked:

Did he look up when the goose flew up?

No.  Actually, he was focused on the blind with the duck he was sent to pick up.  :)

Fun With Freighter

Storm and her pups are doing well.  Sorry, I don’t have any pictures.  Here is a picture of Storm from March instead.

Storm Training 3-9-13

Storm Training 3-9-13

I understand Freighter had a tough week of training.  That is the way it goes some times with a young doggie.

Wordless Wednesday–New Bed

Thunder loves his new bed.  This is the first really puffy bed he has ever had.  He is 7 now and I noticed that he is not as comfortable sleeping on the floor as he used to be.  Once he gets on the puffy bed, he is out.

Thunder Out Like A Light

Thunder Out Like A Light

Of course every time he got up last weekend, that pup Freighter would get right on his bed.  Thunder would just look at me like: “Aren’t you going to kick that kid off?”

This ‘N That Thursday

dogloverofmax@gmail.com wrote:

Why did Thunder have to sit out?

He had dental done on Thursday and had to have some gum overgrowth removed.  The vet wanted to allow it to heal before he was out picking things up in his mouth.  He did get out for a training day on Wednesday so he did not sit out long.

Many of you asked about the corn stalks and whether they bothered the dogs’ feet.  Many times when the dogs hunt pheasant, it can be in cut corn.  Corn has gaps between the stalks and as you can see in these pictures it is pretty broken down from the winter.  Eventually these fields will be planted so we won’t use them at all.

Freighter In The Corn

Freighter In The Corn

A Closer Look At The Ground

A Closer Look At The Ground

Thank you for all of the nice comments on my photos.  I am trying different focus settings.  These pictures were taken with different settings.

Thunder

Thunder

Freighter

Freighter

Another Of Freighter

Another Of Freighter

I may work more with the focus setting that I used for the last picture.  It lets you focus on the moving object and it is supposed to track it.  I need more practice with it to decide whether I like it.  The first and second pictures, I had to focus each frame.  It is hard to do with a fast moving subject as you can see in the second picture.

Have a great weekend!

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I love taking pictures of the dogs in motion.  I think I got some nice pictures of Thunder training last Saturday.  The light was just right and I was in good position to get these action shots.  What do you think?

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When we moved closer to the pond we scared some geese off the back side of it.  Luckily I had my camera ready.

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Finally, I am overdue saying “thank you” for some awards.

I would like to thank Sand Spring Chesapeakes for awarding us the Leibster Award.  If you haven’t met these Chessies, stop over and say “hi”.  Two of the younger Chessies are training for hunt tests just like the brown dawgs.

Leibster Award

I’d also like to thank Misty Shores Chesapeakes for awarding us the Blog of the Year Award.  If you haven’t met these Chessies, stop over and say “hello”.  Titian is training for hunt tests and Maya has been strutting her stuff in the show ring.

Blog of the Year Award 1 star thumbnailThank you both for sharing these wonderful awards with us!

Finally, Thunder is having a dental cleaning today so he missed out on breakfast this morning and will be spending the day at the vet.  I am sure he is thrilled about this.  :)