Oakleys 1st

Picked up Little Miss Oakley of Texas May of this year and have been "training" her myself since then. Well "life" has actually gotten in the way quite a bit this year, both for good and bad, so I haven't been able to "train" her as much as I'd like. I use train loosely as she is my first dog to try my skills on. Unfortunately for her I know nothing and she'd be a lot better off with someone else, but hey you got to start somewhere. Thus I've given it a decent effort so far and she made her first retrieve on a dove at the opener of the second split.



From there she made her first real duck hunt. She's only 8 months old and is as stubborn as an old woman already. I say this because while she seems to learn and understand most things, though she likes to do them her way. I can't complain one bit, she made every retrieve this day. While not always steady, perfect on obedience, nor willing to listen at times, she saved me a bunch of steps. Seeing that she's as young as she is and hopefully with a lot more time to practice this spring we will get better together. She does have a great drive and a strong motor to get them dern ducks though.



She's come a long way.

Awesome! I'm glad she has worked well for you all. My female Izzy is a month along on liter #2, if anyone is looking they are going to be born at the end of January/first of Februrary 👍

Good lookin dog!

Cody, what colors are you expecting? Both myself and a buddy are going to be getting puppies this spring or late winter. Also, what will you be asking for them?

A will have a mixture of Black and Yellows. Full AKC with Master Hunter and Senior hunter lineage. This will be my females second litter, skipping every other heat cycle I have two pups presold and am expecting 8-10 total. I will be getting $800 ($400 deposit) on presales and $900 after birth. Both male and female are great hunters with my male being my main hunting dog as he is a stud with over 5,000 birds under his belt at 5 years old. Pups wil come with full first round of shots and will be available after 6 weeks. Both male and female are great with kids as they love my 3 year old little one.

The drive is there- congrats. Time to stress obedience. Most top trainers will not even do much bird work until they are pretty steady. Bad habits start early.

Awesome, man.

Looks like she is doing fine and will only get better.