The girls are getting solid.

[salmonchaser]

It's taken a while, since October, but the girls are really starting to work together. Until recently they were always racing each other, each wanting to be first. We had fun today but avoided hunting near the river. Too much ice.


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[mjcmichigan]

Love following short hairs!


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[cloverleaf]

They look great! Gotta go find those old pics of Dad and the dogs... . Keep up the good work. And my it is work-- to get dogs to hunt like that. Instinct and opportunity will make them hunt, but training makes them fun to hunt with. Enjoy CL

 

[Guy Miner]

Very cool!

My Clark is off on show-dog duty with other folks.

Mary isn't yet trained for hunting.

So, here I am...

 

[salmonchaser]

Hopefully Clark will help Mary get dialed in!


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[DrMike]

Beautiful to see a working dog such as the pictures show. I certainly enjoy seeing them posed as they determine the source of the scent.

 

[Vince]

Beautiful dogs.
I'm a sucker for a dog. Never met a bad one.

Vince


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[truck driver]

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Yeah the river is too ice for a swim.

 

[cloverleaf]

Very cool!

My Clark is off on show-dog duty with other folks.

Mary isn't yet trained for hunting.

So, here I am...

That's what happens when you let the dog drive the jeep :shock: :lol: :lol: CL

 

[salmonchaser]

24 hours later we were hunting in a snow storm, along the edge of a cotton wood patch. I had hunted Molly in the morning, sugar in the afternoon.
We were a mile from the truck, Sugar was hunting great. It was snowing hard 11 degrees, when Sugar charged into the trees to make a retrieve. There followed a horrible yelping. By the time we reach her she was crawling towards me. A lot of blood, bulging upper leg.
One of the guys took off for the truck. Bleeding controlled I picked her up and started walking.
She was very shocky now.
In the truck about 15 minutes i had cell service. Called Yvette, she called the vet, none of our vet offices open on the weekend.
Just as I arrived the vet called, snow drifts, he is stuck. I turn around blow by the trooper at the ramp closing the freeway.
Hope it wasn't shoot5. About 11/2 hours now at the vet in Hermiston.
Damn he says.
He performs dog doctor stuff. We get X-rays. No broken bones. The lump was massive swelling. It appears she was impaled.
Swelling clear back under her leg.
No foreign bodies visible on X-ray. That's not absolute.
Biggest concern now will be infection and nerve damage.
We go back in on Monday when the ultrasound tech is available. We need to install a drain but the doc. wants to wait to see if we need to do surgery.
She is wearing a pressure bandage to keep the swelling down.
She ate breakfast, good sign.


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[truck driver]

Dang I hate to hear that but glad she is eating.
You say she was impaled, sounds like she ran into a conabear trap. When it closes there is a round steel wire that is designed to kill game used them for muskrat, nutria and coons.
I pray she recovers fully. I would go back and look for the trap since it should have the owners tag on it.

 

[salmonchaser]

My first thought. We've had about 8 inches of snow but I know approximately where she was. Could have been a broken limb, also the area has a lot of flood debris. Freezing rain forecast on top of drifting snow for later today. It'll be a few until I get out there.


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[truck driver]

A broken limb can act as a pungy stake but I haven't seen to many broken limbs that were that sharp to penetrate skin even on a dog but it's hard to tell till you discover the cause. for now her health is more important.

 

[DrMike]

Man, that has to hurt you to see your pup injured that way. Good that you were able to raise the vet and that he was able to verify no broken bones. Hopefully, this will be resolved and she will recover fully and quickly.

 

[sask boy]

That is absolutely awfully.I hope everything turn out alright .
Please keep us posted.

Blessings,
Dan

 

[cloverleaf]

So sorry to hear that she was injured. Keep us posted. CL

 

[salmonchaser]

When it rains it pours. The heater just quit on my pickup. I've been good, what the heck.
Oh well it's only money.

Sugar is doing a little better. She is putting a little weight on the leg, walked outside to go pee. Had to carry in but I'll call that progress. Now it's looking for infection and or nerve damage.
I'll keep you posted.


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[1100 Remington Man]

Sorry to here about your Dog. I use to have my dog always were a vest unless it was to warm because the chance of getting impailed or barb wire fence.
I had once read about Duck hunting dogs getting impailed running into water and getting killed by a stick. Hope all works out well you have very nice looking dogs.

 

[salmonchaser]

Yea barb wire is bad, try to stay away from it. A vest may have helped her, I'm going to have one custom fit for her.
Did a follow up with the vet today. He is surprised I didn't penetrate her chest wall. Thinks rip turned it.
Think of the straight on shot on a buck that slides under the arm pit.
Any way she is sore but no infection yet. Fingers crossed.


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[salmonchaser]

Good looking dog by the way


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