Thanks, friends. I let her out of the kennel and heard a tractor trailer slam on brakes awhile later. I knew without looking what had happened, but when I walked out to the road I found out why. Two wandering dogs that belong to an employee were across the road and Cady saw them, and ran towards them. It was over in an instant, and she did not suffer. But, it was very ugly, and I can't get the image out of my mind right now.
I'm done with retrievers. It is not meant for me to own them. I can enjoy other's, I can appreciate them, but I cannot own them. My last three Labs have met untimely deaths at a very young age. Never again. We have a little house dog that I can care for and protect. But, I will just have to retrieve my own doves and ducks until I cannot no longer shoot. It is a strange thing that I live so far out in the sticks that they have to pipe in sunshine, but I have dogs killed in the road much more than someone who lives in town. Big trucks just can't avoid a dog that runs out in front of them when they're running 55 mph. The driver of the big rig made a huge effort to turn the rig around a mile or so down the road and come back to see me, and tell me how sorry he was. I appreciated that so much, he is a good man. Most would have kept going and cursed the stupid dog for running out in front of him.
She retrieved these doves on the last day of the season, January past. Her last limit.
SRH
