Tractor's Officially A Bird Dog!

Well, because of some things that happened on Thursday of last week, we were unable to get to LA for that AKC trial we were so excited about. Fortunately for Tractor, that meant we were able to go with Lianne and Fred out to a place with the Las Vegas Retriever Hunt Club to see how Tractor would respond to live birds and gun shots.



It was a pretty exciting day - I was having fun watching all the dogs do some really hard retrieves. Tractor took to the birds right away, but as they moved in his mouth he would fling them a little bit, but by the end of the morning, he was soft mouthing them perfectly! I had more of an issue with touching them (thank goodness for Lianne!) - and we have to work on getting him to put them IN my hand.. but it was an awesome first experience. Lianne was great enough to video the footage and put together a little video of our adventure.



Next up is just group class and a couple private lessons. Our next trial is the first weekend in February but it is a 3 day trial IN Las Vegas. That's right.. no driving 3-5 hours to a trial.. its in our own town! He is entered in JWW, Standard and FAST for all three days, so we'll be sure to have lots of agility fun!