Mazie and I are home from a long weekend trip to Chester Springs, PA for a hunt test entered in master. It was 3 days. I was hoping we'd start off strong on Friday with a qualifying run, but it was not to be. Land went great, but Mazie refused the water blind. Thankfully friends who were watching gave me a few handling tips that came into play on Saturday. We passed land after a long heart stopping retrieve from the woods where I could not see what was going on, but seemed like an eternity until Mazie finally popped out of the woods happily carrying a bird. Advice from Friday came into play on the water blind, and we finished our water work with Q's!!
Then on Sunday, again adversity came our way as Mazie flushed another bird on her way back with her second retrieve. I hupped her and we watched the bird fly off, then she came in with her bird....and water work was good again.
So...all that to say that we came home with 2 qualfiying runs for master hunting legs. That makes 3, so we have 2 more to go.
We've been a while in getting here, but it is a great feeling. She is one happy hunting dog with a happy hunting handler.
Susan and Mazie team up on this hunt dead test.
(photo courtesy of Ivywild Welsh Springers)
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