Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject: Ha Ha! Is Mouse really the 'child prodigy'?
I have proof!
and you'll all be able to breath a sigh of relief. Thank the lord Mouse is NOT perfect. Ha ha!
She may be beautiful, she may be very talented and she may already be a better gun dog than my 10 month old puppy, OK I admit it, grudgingly, BUT on Sunday 26th July Mouse FAILED to complete Temptation Alley at our dog show.
Yes FAILED! I have just seen it myself on the results sheet *smug look*
It still doesn't take awaty the fact that she's brilliant but my oh my does it make me feel an awful lot better
PS she really is gorgeous in the flesh by the way.
LMAO see Becs, you were pushing her too fast and you broke her!!
Best go buy another one now and see if you can break some different parts next time around
Helen, I wasn't going to gloat, infact even now I'm wondering if I should allow you your moment of gloatiness, but Mouse's reputation is at stake here! Shall I tell you what happened? Shall I, cos you ain't going to like it!
I sit Mouse at one end of Temptation alley, walk to the other and then call her. Mouse RETRIEVES the first 'temptation' (a raw-hide bone) and runs full pelt up the alley to finish with a smart present to hand of afore-mentioned temptation! <<smug grin!!!!>>
I would hardly call that a 'fail', now!
So there you go..... you just can't take the genius out of the lil' ol' gundog! It's completely down to 'handler-error' that I didn't make it clear to Mousey Brown that it wasn't the Scurry!
Talking of which- <<whispers>> let's not mention Zorro's timing for his 'Scurry-by-Stealth'! Although it has to be said that the way he edged up to the dummy, with his back against the hedge, paws over his ears muttering 'The end of the World is nigh', was rather theatrical and impressive! Bless him, he was very brave what with that ol' starting pistol and me forgetting to bring his woolly scarf to tie around his ears!
Lets be a bit more practical and take this into the shooting field..... The thing is Becs, what if those toys and treats had been pheasants that by some amazing stroke of luck had landed in two neat rows (OK, OK, it's a long shot I know) and lets say the Gun on no.4 peg has bought along his dog and wants his dog to pick his own birds and that one of those birds happens to be the first one on the row, and your dog picks it! Oh the horror, oh the shame!
Well...............erm..............that would never be the case Helen, because no other dog would ever be needed at a shoot if 'Wonder-Mouse' was there, because she is after all, a genius! She's only make the other dogs look bad!
I give in. She is really is perfect I just need to get over it now and move on....
That said, i could always post Zorro's time on the gundog scurry on this forum Actually I'm really sorry he was upset Becs about the gun, the steward could've made a noise for you. What a shame and poor Zorro
Do you know, I have decided I am not a nice person. On Sunday I managed to luckilly coincide a sneaky smoke break behind a tent whilst watching a local man and his cocker doing the scurry. This man for the last year has hugely BIGGED IT UP about his lovely dog and how she is going to be the next FT champ and just how amazing she is. He is so precious about her that he won't even let her mix with the other dogs at the pub when they come. He has also been very rude about my good friend's cocker and not particularly kind about Barney either
So it was with a huge amount of glee that his dog not only failed to mark the dummy and failed to retrieve it but took an hour of 'back' 'back you bl**dy dog', to get the dog any distance from him and then when she was finally in the area she picked the dummy up and dropped it just one metre later and returned home empty. Bloomin marvellous
I so needed a good laugh this morning and the tale of the Bigged Up Cocker Man. There are so many of them out there (not particularly with cockers) who go on an on. It is comforting to see them fall on there face! Dogs are the very best levellers.
LMAO at the cocker man, hope he didn`t take it out on the dog afterwards though
I assume in temptation alley the dog has to pick a particular item and leave the rest? and Mouse grabbed the first one she came to , have to give her her due though she took it and presented it nicely to mum
Honest to god Jill if it'd been a working test, with all the whistling (which the dog completely ignored) and 'back' commands plus expletives, never mind getting a zero he'd be on -63 as a score
Mindst you he's never going to do a working test with that dog as those are for amateurs and girls and are a complete waste of time, apparently!
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I just need to get over it now and move on....
Actually I'm really sorry he was upset Becs about the gun, the steward could've made a noise for you. What a shame and poor Zorro 
