There remains an afterglow of Larsen's accomplishment earlier this month. The backdrop for this accomplishment is the months of healing from Larsen's iliopsoas strain, and the consequential, but in hindsight mistaken, exploratory surgery. The veterinary claim is that after 6 weeks, the healing is done with. However, as with humans, it seems that age reveals again all manner of injuries that in youth were healed and done with. So I keep an eye on him and coddle him a bit by lifting him in and out of the car, for example.
I've had some successful outings with quail. I'll try him on chukar, with the e-collar as a reminder that sitting is an absolute precondition to being released for a fetch.
February provides for the ESS and Bokin tests. Joe has said that it's not until the 2nd master leg that the dog can be said to be hunting at the master level. Let's see if we can move in that direction.
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