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OP Guess you've never had a Retriever, wwh. These dogs will run themselves into the ground for a thrown stick. For a bone too ... but they're not fussy.
I had a Golden Retriever once, Sailor, who would fetch a stick (of any description) out of the Lake all day long for the kids, passing up a meal call if it came to that. Sailor became such a powerful swimmer he could tow a canoe full of kids into shore by the bow rope*. (Maybe he thought the canoe was just another stick.)
Loved that dog, wwh. Even if he preferred sticks over bones.
*The nautical term for a "bow rope" is a "painter" (as I know from my sailing days). Most sailing terms make some kind of sense, but "painter" never made any sense to me.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Now this is bunk! plutarch 03/16/02 04:09 PM Re: Now this is bunk! wwh 03/16/02 04:53 PM Bones of Contention plutarch 03/16/02 05:13 PM Re: Bones of Contention wwh 03/16/02 05:49 PM Re: Bones of Contention plutarch 03/16/02 06:33 PM Re: Bones of Contention WhitmanO'Neill 03/16/02 07:08 PM Re: Bones of Contention plutarch 03/16/02 07:42 PM Re: Bonus Babies Keiva 03/16/02 08:47 PM Re: Bones of Contention musick 03/16/02 11:40 PM Re: Bones of Contention Keiva 03/17/02 12:13 AM Re: Bones of Contention wwh 03/16/02 08:49 PM Re: Bones of Contention Keiva 03/16/02 09:28 PM Re: Boners of Contemporaneity wwh 03/16/02 10:15 PM blood lines plutarch 03/16/02 10:34 PM Re: blood lines wwh 03/16/02 11:06 PM snaffle, snarf & snafu plutarch 03/16/02 11:53 PM
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