Last Saturday after group training we stuck around to do a bit more training on our own.  We moved to a different pond and worked with Freighter on water blinds.  Just before we left we threw him some water marks for fun.

The plan was for me to throw the training bumper up on an island in the pond, but I couldn’t get it that far so it landed in the water just on the edge with a splash.

I will let my photos tell the rest of the story.

Freighter Is Off
Freighter Is Off
Plowing Through The Cover And Headed For The Pond
Plowing Through The Cover And Headed For The Pond
Going For The Bumper
Going For The Bumper
Where Is It?
Where Is It?
Where?
Freighter Cannot See Or Smell It
Looking On The Water's Edge
Looking On The Water’s Edge
Looking Under The Grass
Looking Under The Grass
Up On Land
Up On Land
Trying It From A Different Angle
Looking From A Different Angle
It Must Be Here
It Must Be Here
Did You Take It?
Did You Take It?
It Has Vanished
It Has Vanished
Where The Heck Is It?
Where The Heck Is It?
Got Any Ideas?
Got Any Ideas?

It was the strangest thing.  One minute it was there and the next I could not even spot the bumper with my camera at full zoom.  It was like it vanished.

The only thing we could figure was that Freighter must have stepped on the it and it sank in the mud at the edge of the pond.  We gave up and called him in without the bumper and chalked that bumper as lost to the pond.  Sometimes it happens.

But wait!

By chance this past Tuesday the group was training in that pond and running water blinds.  When Freighter’s turn came up he kept blowing off hubby’s casts and eventually worked his way over and came up with our lost bumper!  I have said it before–that dog has some memory.  We had a lot of rain Saturday night and all day Sunday, (I mean buckets), so the extra water in the pond must have dislodged the bumper from the mud.

There you go bumper lost–then bumper found!

Mirror Image: For all of you who tried to guess which dog was which on yesterday’s post, those of you that guessed Thunder was the top picture and his grandson Freighter was the bottom guessed right!

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23 thoughts on “Thursday Barks And Bytes–Bumper Lost?”

  2. Mom loves it when things like that happen. She sometimes forgets where she puts odor when we practice nose work, and has to rely on us to find it. Usually we do, but now and then we go back days later and find it right away.

  3. Hi Y’all!

    Freighter! You are one smart Chessie!!! (Thought I was goin’ to say “smart cookie” didn’t you?)

    I’m HERE! My Human hasn’t decided on the theme or lots of other stuff and people are leavin’ me messages that they can’t find a place to comment so she’ll have to change it, but I can post again! Whoopee!

    Y’all come on by,
    Hawk aka BrownDog

    1. I had no problem commenting but I am doing it while logged in at wordpress. I think you may have to change settings in Setting>Discussion.

      Here is what I have (I am self hosted so it might be a bit different, but many settings will be the same for you.)

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  5. Y’all, I’m puttin’ your code on the old Google blog ’cause my Human doesn’t have time to figure out how to do it on the WP.

    1. You have free wordpress right? You will need it add the code for free wordpress and on “Text” screen. You can find it from the top right hand corner of your post box. it says “Visual” and “Text”…use text for this code. It will not show as a list in your post, but will pop up on another page.

  7. Freighter’s memory is fantastic! Ah, but to have the memory of my youth!

  8. This is going to sound dumb, but I love how different Chessies look from one another. When at Westminster, I think I was startled that I couldn’t tell any of them apart. It’s one of the few breeds that all look alike to me. But yours and JoAnn Stancer’s look different from each other. I’m not saying it right. Anywho, Freighter is a handsome beast.

    1. Not a stupid question. Ours is not be a cookie cutter breed. Our standard allows for a wide variety of brown color and the height/weigh standard is not rigid. I can see how to a person unfamiliar with the breed, they might all look the same because they were mostly dark brown I think and a similar size. Westminster should pull the best of the best so in that regard they should be pulling dogs that appear middle of the road and not too extreme. But I know several of the dogs and watched the judging and they were not all alike when it came to movement. 🙂

  12. THAT is pretty darn funny. I thought he just couldn’t find the bumper and didn’t realize it wasn’t there at all. Was Hubby trying to handle him to the bumper or was it just a ‘play’ toss? Incidentally, the dogs still haven’t learned that I cannot throw things. One of these days I will hurt either myself or someone else in a toss. Once I whizzed it by Hubby’s head, but I’m not entirely sure there wasn’t some intent involved. 😉

    1. I was actually throwing the bumper as a mark, but it should have been fun and easy but it was not. Hubby did try to handle him to it (or where it should have been). Unfortunately is was not there on that day.

  15. Awesome how he found the bumper! Great pics – I especially love the splashing ones!

  17. That is too funny! Dogs can have amazing memories, can’t they? At least you could call him back. If Cricket’s ball gets thrown outside of the yard, she will not give up on it until we let her go get it!

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