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As a long time lurker of this forum, I just wanted to take a minute and introduce myself. I got my first dog “just for a pet” three years ago. I was introduced into the retriever training world when my golden girl was bumping two years old, and after some thought, I decided to go for it. So I began training my golden last year - as complete amateurs, Mandy and I are learning together and we’re both loving it. I’m hoping that we will be ready to run a hunt test or two this fall.

I am so thankful that a site like this is available – I have already learned so much here and I know I will learn much more in the months that follow. And I'm sure that I'll have quite a few beginner questions for you all as well!

Leah
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Ken Bora said:
Leah said:
I began training my golden last year - as complete amateurs, Mandy and I are learning together and we’re both loving it. I’m hoping that we will be ready to run a hunt test or two this fall.
Leah
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You Fool! do you know what you have done? Run, run now, run like you have never run before!! You stand right at the edge of a very slippery slope. The tiniest move forward and there is no turning back. You will never have a carefree, nothing to do weekend ever again, for the rest of your life. You will start planning all your vacation time and weekends around dog events and training groups. You will start accumulating clutter that will live in your truck. What, no truck? You will buy vehicles not on price or mileage but on how many dog crates will fit in them. Then you will just get a chassis mount and trailer. You will spend more time in a field with your dogs than you spend with cousins and uncles. You will put a whistle around your neck before you put your pants on in the morning. You will never drive past a field, swamp, pond or lake without thinking "Can I train there, who owns that?" The non-dog folk in your circle of friends will never see you anymore. End tables and decorative home decor will be replaced by dog crates and dog prints won at raffles. Your favorite splash on fragrance will contain D.E.E.T. And in the middle of August, months from hunting season, you will have mallards thawing in your crisper drawer for the mornings work...... Run you fool!
Ken Bora
ps- welcome to the madness!
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LOL! And then you might buy a dog box for the top of your truck that your dog only goes in when at a trial. Mostly it will be used to store your training stuf. And then your "normal" friends and co-workers will start to make fun of you for your conversations on the phone with your training partners... Maybe even avoid you. Then you might start "dealing ducks" out of the back of your truck in your work parking lot... Probably you will start a shrine for ribbons complete with pictures of your dog.

Listen to Ken! Dogs are a weird addiction! :D
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