Hi Patti,
Mac is doing great! She's a ball of fire! She flushed
her first two pheasants this past week. Too bad
they were both hens. I was looking for a quail
I had shot and couldn't find, guess who had it? You
would have been proud. Just thought I'd fill you
in on all the good news. See ya,
Kevin and Kelly
Dear Patti,
Thank you so much for allowing me to visit you. You
impressed me with your openness, honesty and friend-
liness. To have that many Chesapeakes all getting along,
well behaved and happy in a house without doggie smells,
reflects caring and work - and time well spent with your
animals.
It was a pure joy to play with a litter of Chessie pups!
Thank you for letting me roll around with them outside.
It is a treat to see a litter all the same color, none
mismarked and without a big bully or a little one. Plus,
they were all my color.....brown puppies. Please keep
me posted about your breedings even though it is not
yet time for me to think about a puppy. For now, my
Chessie is enjoying life as an only child. Again, thank
you for your graciousness and hospitality,
Fran
Patti and Lenny,
Thank you so much for meeting us and allowing us to
have one of your puppies. We did decide to name her
Lucky. She's doing great! We have had so much fun
this week with her. She fits right in and Dixie loves to
look after her. Lucky loves to imitate Dixie. Rest assured,
she went to a very good, loving home. Hope you enjoy
these pictures. Take care and keep in touch.
Tim and Mo
River is doing awesome. Had the first retrieves this Fall.
She is the best of the 3 Chesapeakes I have had. I get
compliments on her looks and she has been extemely
easy to train. Is it too late to register her with the AKC?
She is from your Spring litter,
John
You can tear up the warrantee papers on Otto...........I've decided to keep him!
We just completed my personal best season and Otto's also. He got 80 retrieves this year as best as I can determine and would have had more except my main hunting
buddy couldn't hit hardly anything until the last day!! I didn't add up the species for
Otto but I think at least 50 of his birds were Goldeneyes with quite a fe cripples. He
had a lot of special birds but three stand out. One was a bull Can cripple that he finally
caught at about 150 yards after it kept diving on him (Mississippi River- main channel
current).
Another was a crippled Goldeneye that he had to chase down in the ice and current
of the River on the last day of the season (temperature about 5 degrees). It too was a
diver and he finally had to tread water backwards in the current to wait for the bird
to surface - amazing. I called it the Otto ' moonwalk'.
The best was, I think, another crippled Goldeneye in the main channel current of the
Mississippi that he caught at over 200 yards from the shore after it dove on him
multiple times. He was one tired biy after that one. Oh, and that was last Saturday
when the temperature was in the low teens.
Otto finally understands that retrieving isn't fun and games, it's HIS job and no one
elses.
I've got a few pictures that I'll forward to you when I get them out of the camera.
Very best,
Pete and Otto
