huntall6 wrote:How is Ki, Rick? ( I can't remember how you spell his name), I always enjoy pictures and stories of your old hunting buddy.
Appreciate your asking. Kie is doing remarkably well for a dog that was worked as hard as he was. Well, for most any dog, I suppose. Long deaf as a stick from gunfire, which retired him from commercial use the first time, and hampered by cataracts, he's become too feeble to handle real cover, as well. Was in a "quantity vs quality of life" pickle over whether to hunt him last woodcock season, but he let me off that hook by totally ignoring the first mess of them the coyote and I brought home. He's done with that.
Still, however, plainly enjoys roaming the safe and known by rote bounds of our yard and tests my patience with some of his several times a day junkets around - and around and around - it. Hasn't made it onto the couch under his own power since Christmas or so, but is still apt to bail off the front steps despite some spooky crashes, if I let him, and "bounds" back up them. All in all, we're truly blessed that he's held up so well. Kie will be 17 on the 3rd of July.
