{"id":406,"date":"2008-09-15T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/406"},"modified":"2008-09-15T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T12:33:12","slug":"navhda-natural-ability-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/406","title":{"rendered":"NAVHDA Natural Ability test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another busy doggy weekend. A Reader&#8217;s digest report: what were supposed to be showers yesterday turned into one long (9 AM-ish till later afternoon) shower &#8211; one might even, if one were not feeling charitable, call it a steady light rain. Luckily for those of us doing the Natural Ability test, the rain held off until after we&#8217;d finished the bird field segment. I had visions of soaking wet quail and young dogs realizing they couldn&#8217;t fly, zipping down the field and taking the quail out without a point. This time at least, no nightmare scenario. Dinah did me proud &#8211; excellent pointing, some trouble with the track\u00a0 but once she solved the problem the best tracking performance I&#8217;ve seen from her yet, and big gusto in the water (I overheard one of the judges say something like &#8220;Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> what I want to see.&#8221;) She ended up with a Prize I &#8211; we&#8217;re going to spend the next couple weeks working on staunchness, then it&#8217;s off to find the real thing &#8211; paatridge and woodcock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3138\/2859382048_496faf6a45_b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3138\/2859382048_496faf6a45_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3138\/2859382048_496faf6a45.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<p>No probem with fear of the outdoors here. A little later a plastic kiddie pool was found. These three miscreants filled it (using paper coffee cups and hands) with caf\u00e9 au lait colored water (what my family calls &#8216;dog coffee&#8217;) and proceded to have a splashing contest. It was quickly discovered that sitting down hard produced a better splash than just jumping &#8211; luckily smart parents had dry clothes with them. I believe at one point &#8211; after the mud olympics were over &#8211; a couple trucks had piles of older bird dogs and children in them, snoring and steaming up the windows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3291\/2858554323_179e357e51_b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3291\/2858554323_179e357e51_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3291\/2858554323_179e357e51.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another busy doggy weekend. 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