Thank you:) But you guys really deserve a bit of the credit because I very well may never have made it this far without all the support and encouragement you have given me.
When I first took Indy out she ran into two roosters. She's kinda been finding more pheasants here and there since then, but not handling them well. It's taking some work, but she's learning how to hunt them. Already she's using her nose more and actually sniffing places out instead of just barreling across the field. If I walk too fast she thinks it's a race, so I have to slow down and sometimes stop and call her back to encourage her to be more thorough. One day I lost track of a pheasant that she hadn't seen at all. Apparently it had gone into a huge blackberry patch. I put Indy on the scent and she found the bird in a few minutes.
She actually hadn't even seen that rooster I shot. I figured I might as well shoot one though, so she knows for certain what I like and want her to find. On the first few hunts she was she was chasing tweety birds but she's stopped that now since she started smelling enough pheasants. Every once in a while she'll find a random thing like a coyote or an owl.
I'm starting to see signs that the things that she learned on pigeons
may possibly have affected her.
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Our time is short, so I may have to continue working her on pheasants after the hunting season ends.
"Heaven isn't for good people. Heaven is for forgiven people."