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Marc St Louis:
I've saved several newborn calves being born at the wrong time of year from hypothermia, never lost one. The trick is to start with lukewarm water and slowly work it up to body temp.
It is as PaulN said though. It's amazing I got to be this old from all the stupid things I did when I was young (lol)
Eric Krewson:
About 50 years ago I lived in an old farm house overlooking thousand of acres of bottom land. There had been a winding creek through the bottom land but the core of engineers came in and cut a new straight channel for miles, this was done so the land would drain and be usable for row crops. They left the old winding creek and its grown up banks for wildlife habitat, because the old creek didn't have hardly any water flow we called it the dead creek.
The ducks loved this old dead creek, I spent a lot of time jump shooting them. Some of the ones I shot fell over land, some fell out in the water, the water was up to 5' deep. I had an Irish setter that was a super retriever but wouldn't put a duck in his mouth so I would hit the creek and get my ducks no matter how cold it was. I often walked home with my clothes frozen solid.
Taking pity on me, one day my wife came home from work, dropped a lab puppy in my lap and said " you are going to kill yourself going after those ducks so here is the solution.
That puppy turned out to be one in million as far as labs go, she was so bright she took little training to do it all, blind retrieves, hand signals, marking multiple downed birds, she flushed rabbits, pointed quail and I am sure she understood English. She never failed on a retrieve even if the duck fell 1/2mile away, she had one speed which was peddle to the metal wide open.
Well the wife ran off with some married guy she met at work but I had the lab, I definitely got the better end of the deal.
Judy the wonder dog, she just spotted a flight of ducks in the distance, she always became every intense at this point. Funny thing; if I missed a couple of easy shots on a flight of ducks she would look up at me in the blind, make a face and whine as if to say, "you have to do better that that bozo".
Eric Krewson:
Sorry to get off track on the thread but the cold water thing brought back memories from my past.
bjrogg:
I do think labs are very smart dogs Eric. They not only have a good nose. They have good eyes too. You can show them something and they see it right away. They also have a soft mouth and naturally avoid tearing apart what they retrieve. At least the ones we have had.
I remember one we had. Murphy the stinky inky black dog. We really never hunted with her but I’m sure she would have picked it up quickly. She would catch birds and never bite them hard enough to kill them. I think They would’ve eventually drowned in droll.
One time we were working in the silo. It had been empty for a few months and we were getting the unloader ready to hoist to the top. Murphy realized she could get in the empty silo with us. Soon she was digging up rat holes and they were scurrying around. She caught one and in her natural soft mouth hold she was just going to play with it. Then it bit her right on her nose and wouldn’t let go. That turned on the light bulb. She hated rats after that. She took every opportunity to catch and dispatch them. We had big round bales and every time we would pick one up with the tractor she would be ready. She would catch one and shake it violently. Then throw it as high in the air as she could. When it hit the ground she was ready to finish it off. If it didn’t move she immediately went after another.
Dang good dog and really friendly to. Really miss her.
Bjrogg
Digital Caveman:
It would be interesting if the contestants could bring along dogs.
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