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Absolutely. We have more crates than dogs.

I had a cat named Roy. Great cat. Stray street cat from Mexico. Got him when he was still a kitten. The cat could hunt! Full grown mallards, ground hogs. Fearless. Watched him attack Canada geese. Only thing I ever saw scare him was a bald eagle. His best friend was a rottweiler. Ran my two setters.

Dig in your heels. Roy is a great name!

Nice looking pup Brent! How was the drive back from CA?

Ken

LONG. On the way out, I hit a few interesting spots like Colorado National Monument and Joshua Tree NP. But on the way back I visited shooting and hunting partners with dogs for him to meet. That worked really well. In between he road like a champ but I was grinding down. Almost 4000 miles. I thought we would bond well vs doing the plane ride thing, as I have done before. That is exactly what happened.

We got to La Junta, CO just in time for the second half of the Superbowl, which he enjoyed. I think it was pulling for the 9es since he is a California lad.

Wow…I use to do some hunting around La Junta. He might been able to find ducks along the Arkansas.

I drove to eastern Oregon to pickup my last pup in May 2020. An interesting trip with Covid lockdowns being taken down. The previous pup we had flown in from MN and I didn’t want to do that again.

Ken

We saw lots of waterfowl wherever we saw some water. Snow geese in Nebraska were thicker than storm clouds. Lots of ducks in Kansas, again, where there was water. It is an uncomfortably early spring.

It takes a lot to get me on an airplane these days. Even w/o a dog.

Golden retriever?

Yup. A special one, of course. He has mighty big boots to fill next fall. If he becomes half of what Gus was, he will be an excellent hunter. But he will also become a much better companion dog for going around town. That was not Gus's strong suite though he did a bit of it. I doubt he will be quite as handsome as Gus too, but only time can tell. Today, Dusty was in the State Farm Insurance Office wrestling with their resident golden, Lola - an absolute sweetheart that rolled Dusty over and over. He just came back for more.

I believe Mark Twain once wrote that every person has one great dog in his life. I thought I had had that dog when I left home for University. But I was wrong. The next golden (grad school) was that dog. Then the NEXT golden that I gave my wife-to-be was that dog, and the flat coated after that, and then Gus. In the end, when I have thought I had seen all the great goldens that I could reasonably hope for in my lifetime, one more amazing dog comes along. There is no reason to doubt Dusty can be that next best dog. It will be a fun journey.

Wow!! What a beautiful pup!! I'll bet that he'll be a world of fun. Good luck with him. He is really great!!

Merci. First glance, thought he was a Nova Scotia duck-tolling retriever. I dog-sat for one of those for a week when its owners went on vacation, ages ago. Similar paint scheme. And then I saw the pictures of what I must assume is his mother.... Nope!


How about Nugget? Or Walter Huston? (Thinking of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', because, you know, well, gold.)