The last six months have been extremely busy. We no longer have Autumn. Autumn in essence "wacked" out and become uncontrolable for the family. We did everything conceivable to make it work with her. We met with our vet numerous times and even took her to a dog behavorist that said that she was too dominant to be in the family. Our vet even had us start using a shock collar on her to keep her from jumping on the kids and any visitors. What finally pushed me over the edge was when she jumped my daughter while I was throwing a dummy for her. Lucky for us we were able to place her in a home with no kids that has a golden and a german shepard. Sending her away was very hard but in hind sight it was the best thing. I have been told by the new owners that even though she can be the nicest dog in the world, she often attacks and dominates the other two dogs. BTW- We contacted the breeder- Green Meadows Retreivers and they didn't care a bit. We since found out from some of the owners of her litter mates that a male was returned for aggressiveness, two other dogs needed shock collars to be controlled in the house, and one great family's dog Cooper had a degenerative right leg and since had a portion of his femur removed.
Three months ago we decided as a family to try a retreiver again. This time we went with an English Labrador named Scout. Scout has been nothing but near perfect. He loves the family and is doing great training for hunting. He doesn't have the drive as Autumn, or the nose. But he is controllable and a pleasure to be with. I hope to hunt him in later in the winter.
Another great thing that has happened in the last few months is Nicholas made the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts. Patti and I are very proud of him. His scouting journey has taken 9 years to make it to the top. Go Nick!
Pheasant season is getting close. Dave and I are heading out in a couple of weeks. Hope this year will be great.
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