Because of Father’s Day, the attendance was light. However, because of the heat, there was not a lot of time to run more dogs. Larry had a number of shorthair puppies running the grounds to add to the training chaos. The dogs (and handlers) were dragging at the mid point in their fieldwork. The chucker flew well if the dogs could find them. Dan Kremer’s Max was steady in the field. Quill was braced with Guillie and was more interested in her than hunting. Give it up, Quill! Two birds were left in the field and were later found by Larry and Elvis along with Dick Rogler and his griffon during their runout.

The water work was much more pleasant even if the pond level was low. Pam put the ducks out with the boat because the guys were too heavy and the water too low to allow the boat to get over the submerged logs. There was introduction of puppies to the water along with advanced healing through stakes and duck searches. Mike Hubenthal used to have a white setter but not after the water search: black is more like it! Tom Snyder and Fritter did some healing work: Fritter did all of the stakes but Tom missed two. We discussed the e-collar for Tom! Melody got a 4 in her water work as she got right in to set a good example for her puppy. We should begin the practice of launching the dogs from different places on the pond when we work the duck search. This begins to address the issue of training at different places to get rid of familiarity and introduces slightly different scenarios.