Jim Elam let me run Luther in the field Friday. Luther did great...I got the lesson! In the winter, most water work stops. Friday was an exception. It was in the mid-40's and no wind. Jim Elam set up a couple retrieves in the training pond and all the dogs really loved it. Brad Slaybaugh was visiting and let his lab run the water test, too. The chamois got a good workout drying all the dogs down afterwards. I was manually focusing my camera and missed the really great shot of Luther jumping off the shore and as a last resort I used it in the background of the layout.
I hadn't seen Luther for about 3 weeks--since he left our house from his Christmas visit. Luther knew when we'd arrived--the sound of my car engine, smell, voices. He was so happy his tail sounded like a loud machine gun hitting the walls of his box on Jim's new dog truck. We are fortunate that our presence does not affect his performance. He's dead serious when there's a retrieve to be fetched. It's like he flips a switch and says, "I've got more important things to do now!" All focused!
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