It’s Follow-up Friday.  The blog hop that:

Let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

Thank you to Jodi from Heart Like A Dog and co-hostess, Dawn from Pet Auto Safety for hosting the hop!

Thanks for all of the comments and questions this week.  Ideally I would like to respond to all of them, but the week usually flies by without me finding the time.  Lucky for me Jodi invented the Follow-up Friday hop so at least I can respond to some of them.  🙂  (I did go back and respond to some directly in addition to the those I have included in this post.)

Follow-up Friday 8-30-13

Sand Spring Chesapeakes commented:  What a great collection of past hunting photos. I really like the one of Thunder at 9 months, the back ground was great. Have a wonderful weekend and good luck hunting if your going early goose. We are going, we are going to see if we can take Norman.

Thank you.  Most pictures that are taken in the field are taken by my hubby with our old pocket Kodak camera.  It takes excellent pictures on bright sunny days.  Unfortunately I do not have pictures from every hunt because the camera didn’t always go along and of course at times the weather was bad.

Here is that picture again:

The dogs did not get to go out for early Goose.  They are jealous of the Sand Spring dogs.  (If you want to see some excellent pictures of the Sand Springs gang goose and dove hunting and of Norman out doing what he loves, go here.)

weliveinaflat commented: … It’s interesting to hear Storm is a drama queen… I guess I sort of assumed (wrongly!) that all the brown dogs won’t give you any “problems”… although it sounds more like interesting moments to me…

Oh they all give us “problems” from time to time.  They are far from perfect.  But we keep plugging away with their obedience.  Storm will definitely make her distaste known if you make her wait or do something she doesn’t like to do, like swim in a cold pond.

ILoveDogs It makes me sad to think a bird is injured and not dead. But I agree it is good for the dogs to try to pick it up anyway. You wouldn’t want the bird to get away and suffer.

One of the biggest benefits to using a dog while hunting is that the hunters are more likely to find their game that might otherwise be lost.  You might remember Storm and the wounded goose last year.  She found a bird that other hunters had wounded and could not fine.  Because she recovered that bird, it did not go to waste.  Dogs do an important job for hunters.

rubytheblacklabrador A question – seeing the dogs standing over their hard work – do they get to eat the ducks/pheasants? what do you do with them – refreeze them? Am I asking a silly question?!!!:)

Not a silly question.  Sorry to inform you that people eat the birds and the dawgs don’t usually get a taste.  🙂  On occasion, we might keep one or two for training, but we usually use pen raised birds for that.  You might be interested to know that wild birds smell different from a pen raised bird.

Monday Mischief–Storm Has Her Own Idea

Storm is feeling much better after her spay surgery.  She is still restricted from swimming/getting a bath until next week.  A day or so after her surgery we were a bit concerned because one end of her incision was bright red.  Hooray for modern technology.  I snapped a picture on my phone and sent it off to the vet who said that it was normal, but call if it gets worse.  It didn’t.

She did not like the cone.  I was able to work from home for a few days and as long as I kept an eye on her, she left her incision alone.  By yesterday she was able to be outside again.  She enjoyed that.  We have had a string of really nice days.

Summer Portraits 2013

Thanks for all of the complements on my pictures.  I am still learning and have lots of room for improvement, but I did like several of these shots very much.  One thing I need to purchase is a tripod which will make taking portraits easier.

weliveinaflat commented:  The head shots are magnificent! I’m so glad to see their faces in detail. From the full set of pictures, one can really start to see the minor differences that make each dog unique. Previously the brown dogs all look similar to my untrained eyes when they are running up and down the fields when birds in their mouths *sorry!*

To tell the truth, there I times I cannot tell them apart in pictures.  They are very similar and depending on the color and whether I can tell size, it can be a chore.  I can usually tell who is who if I can see their faces.  🙂

Emmadog asked:  Storm looks to be turning grey on her eyebrows and muzzle…do you suppose it was the puppies that caused that:) Humans always tell their kids that they make their hair turn grey?

LOL she might say “yes”, but actually she was already turning grey before the pups.  Chessies can turn grey prematurely and it really shows up on the darker colored dogs like Storm.  Thunder is grey too, but you can’t see it as clearly because of his coat color.

Wordless Wednesday–On The Inside Looking Out

Hopefully you saw the yesterday’s post for the story behind the picture.

I have to fess-up that I retouched the photo and put some toning on it.  The screening on the porch is heavy and it was hard to see Freighter without the toning.

This ‘N That Thursday

slimdoggy wrote:  We’ve had a problem with woodpeckers on our house this year! We have a fake owl that we use to distract the screeching owls…and it works on the woodpeckers too. I don’t mind having the birds around, just don’t be eating my house!

We have that problem too!  Our cabin is wooden and they used to peck on it.  But we put suet cakes on all four sides to encourage the woodpeckers to eat them and not the cabin.  We also use some woodpecker control products.  We hung reflective tape from the eves and a yellow Scare Eye Balloon from one of our trees on the side of the house where the woodpeckers were particularly fond of visiting.  Those have worked pretty well.

Many of you said that you can’t have feeders due to feral cats in the area.  We really don’t have those at the cabin.  Once in a great while we will see a cat, but they are not usually around long.  I suspect the wildlife takes care of them.  🙁

Jan K  commented:  We can’t have feeders out in the Summer, because we have black bears around and they’ll just tear them down!

Yes that can be a problem.  There are black bears in the area, but usually they do not come near the cabins.  If we saw evidence of them, then we would have to stop feeding too.

Have a great weekend.  We hope to get out to do some training this weekend.

Thanks again to Jodi from Heart Like A Dog and co-hostess, Dawn from Pet Auto Safety for hosting a hop.

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