Jasper had a successful duck hunting trip with my son, John this last Wednesday (see picture). He didn't go in the water to do any retrieves (which was not unexpected because he's not much of a water dog at this point - and besides that it would have been too cold) but he found all of the ducks that dropped in the high grass surrounding the ponds where the hunt took place. I've been out there with my boys before and much of that grass is knee high or higher and we've lost many birds that went down mortally wounded and then managed to burrow deeply into the grass. My son said that happened with about 6 birds that he and a friend downed and Jasper used his nose to find every one of them! My son's friend was quite impressed. And Jasper was quite the happy boy.
