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RJL	Oct 27 2008, 01:49 PM
Chatterbox Posts: 1,387 Group: Full Members Member #179 Joined: January 25, 2006	:yippee: We went beating on Saturday! Dill was off-lead almost all day. I was going to keep him on during the 1st drive, but after about 2 minutes of pushing through the wood, I set him free, put the whistle in my mouth and prayed!!! Anyway - he was good :) He worked nice and close and actually, didn't do much hunting out a lot of the time, as he was being all pastoral and listening for the whistle, so it looked impressive when he sat & turned & recalled................until on the way to one drive he saw the hare and if a dog could don spandex and start singing 'Waterloo' (as in cup!) :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: He was off!!! However, I was pleased because he came back after only 1 field! By the last drive, he was getting a bit overwhelmed and I realised he had stopped really listening to the whistle, so he went back on just for the last bit. Afterwards, he found a partridge that the picker-up had missed! I'd just tried to call him back as he's squeezed through the sheep-netting around a wood, but then someone else noticed he'd found the bird! The funniest thing was when we were walking back to the vehicles along the river bank. It's tidal so things get washed up and Dill found an old football and kept positioning it just in front of everyone, trying to get them to tackle him :rolleyes: I was really pleased with him :wub: apart from the fact that being so tiny, he managed to wriggle under the seat of the pick-up we were riding in and pull out a rather large and rather ancient dog chew. Twice in the night I was woken by really frantic yapping and he shot like a rocket down the garden because his guts were rather poorly :unsure: Can't wait to go again :yippee:


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