Rowdy

[Duckdog17]

Unfortunately, my first post here, isn't a very good one.

It's been one week and a day since I lost my best friend Rowdy. I got snowed in today, so I had a little time to surf the web and I've really enjoyed the reading, so I thought I'd share a little.

In a nutshell, Rowdy had been getting sick and we'd suspected pancreatitis. In the end, his kidneys had shut down.
It seemed so sudden, as he was in great shape, but I also know, that for a lab, anything over 10 years is borrowed time. He would have been 11 in just a couple of weeks.
This has been one of...if not THE hardest week of my life.

I picked up Rowdy from a pointing lab breeder out of Colorado.
For those that know the pointing lab names, he was out of Barracuda Swiss.
He was easy to train and you absolutely, could not have asked for anything more as a hunting dog OR a family companion.
The compliments I'd recieve on him from people I didn't even know in big hunting parties,...made me so proud.

He was a top notch waterfowl retriever, and worked pheasants methodically, but he absolutely LOVED hunting dead. He would run down crippled pheasants like his life depended on it.
I think his idea of heaven, would be a field full of winged pheasants with someone telling him "dead" occasionally...
And I HOPE that's exactly what he gets to do until we meet again.

 

[Duckdog17]

 

[pointshoot]

i had a pretty good yellow,like talking to person when I asked her to do something,always steady
sorry for your loss

 

[Upland4Ever]

Sorry to hear about your lose. I also to have a chocolate lab, and your's is different but seems along the lines of how mine hunts. He's a good waterfowl dog, but get him on a covey of quail he will lock up, pheasants he does now and then. But in all I can see he loves bird hunting just a little more then waterfowl. People always tell me he looks like a water dog and when they get behind him bird hunting it shocks them. I did'nt want to get on a soap box, but just I'd share that to a fellow chocolate lab family member. My prayers are with you.

 

[Upland4Ever]

Sorry to hear about your lose. I also to have a chocolate lab, and your's is different but seems along the lines of how mine hunts. He's a good waterfowl dog, but get him on a covey of quail he will lock up, pheasants he does now and then. But in all I can see he loves bird hunting just a little more then waterfowl. People always tell me he looks like a water dog and when they get behind him bird hunting it shocks them. I did'nt want to get on a soap box, but just I'd share that to a fellow chocolate lab family member. My prayers are with you.

http://www.ultimatepheasanthunting.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=217&pictureid=1873
http://www.ultimatepheasanthunting.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=217&pictureid=1872

 

[Hank_Hill]

RIP pup... Sorry for your loss man. I cried like a bitch when I had to put down my 11yr old yellow lab. Looks like you gave him a good life and had a lot of good times with him though.

 

[JMc]

Glad you shared...it's the first step to heal your heart. I'm sure he's hanging with my big old white lab Jake, looking down and wondering how we missed that bird...

 

[Toad]

Thanks for posting your story, and I'm sorry for your loss.

From the pics, I would say you worked him hard, spoiled him good, and gave him a great life. It's no wonder he was such a loyal friend.:thumbsup:

There's nothing I respect more in a hunting dog than a driven retriever!

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Sorry for your loss, tuff for sure.


Good to see another KS.n? on board.

 

[BritChaser]

You gave Rowdy the greatest life a dog could have. Now don't delay: find another dog and do the same for it.

 

[V-John]

Looks like he had a good life. He nor you, can ask for anything more then that.

Get another one, but only when you are ready. Dog men should have dogs. Plain and simple.

 

[Duckdog17]

Thanks for the kind words guys...
I DO plan on getting another dog, (I just haven't had "the talk" with the wife yet.)

We've still got one running around here, but she's my daughter's dog.
A little Jack Russel Terrorist named Penny. Her and Rowdy were like peas and carrots. It's been really sad watching her go through the grieving process too...
And, make no mistake about it,...she's been sad.
Rowdy was her security blanket. If he'd lay down,...she'd be right there in no time!
If he moved,...she'd move too.

Anyway, just to let ya'all know, we're not totally dogless...
But I have lost my hunting machine. Penny comes with me from time to time,...but it's more for comic relief.

 

[Hank_Hill]

lol that yote pic is awesome