Sunday, August 14, 2011

Master hunters

Training partner Cathy V. brought her white & lemon clumber spaniels, Humphrey and Zelda to the Wisconsin Hunt Test in Mezomanie and ran the table.

Humphrey earned his first MH leg, and Zelda completed her fifth, for her Master Hunter title.

Cathy said that Humphrey, who is sort of an idea dog, set his opinions aside and followed her directions and signals. On the hunt dead, Humphrey found the bird and was starting back when he inadvertently flushed a stray bird. Humphrey sat on the flush, holding the dead bird. He came in, provided the bird to hand to Cathy and went on to the water where he finished in fine style.

The ever-biddable Zelda simply went about her business of finding, flushing, and retrieving birds in the fine style of a Master Hunter.

Unhappily due to the split field, our eye-witness news team has no photos of the pair in action.

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Orange ribbons are flying everywhere as Zelda completes her MH and Humphrey earns his first MH leg.




The Alabama Training Team shows its colors.



Cathy gets a ribbon for Humphrey.




And a big ribbon for Zelda.

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