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....When a Legend Calls?......
It is odd how now and again the retriever training forum can change your day. This morning, the way my day was set up today, with the warmth compared to the other. I was out in my dog poop riddled, snow melting and exposing, back yard with scoop and bucket working on remote sits with a young dog and an old psycho one. Voice and pooper scoop are very good training tools. But I digress, as usual. So, come in 'round about 8:30 for a second cup and the cell phone laying on the kitchen table lights up. Unrecognized number, the phone tells me. So I give the warm hello and the strong, friendly voice says "Hello Ken, I'm _____ _____. And I say "Excuse me?"
And he repeats his name and then tells me he reads this stuff I type on the RTF and likes some of it. I am stunned! I actually cannot believe who I am talking to. And what a great, one hour + conversation! The history of the fun game we all play that is bouncing around in this persons head is, as folk are passing on, and on. is almost unparalleled. We know so many of the same folks he and I.
It was the type of conversation that, on a warm and Sunny Vermont day with all the training ponds still iced over just booted me in the backside to go back out on the lawn and keep working my dogs. It was a conversation that because of the talking style of the both of us ( talk the same way I type) was like riding a dolphin, it branched way off from it's intended porpoise. It touched on many of the people we both know. Some of the RTF personalities we both like, dislike, and enjoy poking, for fun. The history of the sport. The future of the sport. And the big "why are there so few new folks" 500 pound gorilla. The reason he called was because I had responded to his last post he had typed here on the RTF. It was just a simple paragraph thanking him for participating.
And the reason for this post you all ask????????? I would like the new folk and the say middle, been in it for a while folk. To make an effort to reach out and have a conversation with a grizzled veteran of running dogs. Just let them tell you stories. Remember the names they speak of. Much of the game we play only has an oral history.
The elder ones are the cool ones!
Now I am not going to tell you who called me. I could let you guess, I guess. His name, well the name he goes by. Reminds me of a Medieval knight, and his last name is not a primary or a secondary color. But let me just say Thank You for the call and the unintentional motivation Mr. _____. And I sincerely hope you remain your actual, factual, tell it the way you see it, type of person. Your kind ain't meant to be politically correct and every now and again, we need that. Both RTF, the dogs games, and the world in general.
Thank you all for reading, now go talk to an old fart!;-)
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It is odd how now and again the retriever training forum can change your day. This morning, the way my day was set up today, with the warmth compared to the other. I was out in my dog poop riddled, snow melting and exposing, back yard with scoop and bucket working on remote sits with a young dog and an old psycho one. Voice and pooper scoop are very good training tools. But I digress, as usual. So, come in 'round about 8:30 for a second cup and the cell phone laying on the kitchen table lights up. Unrecognized number, the phone tells me. So I give the warm hello and the strong, friendly voice says "Hello Ken, I'm _____ _____. And I say "Excuse me?"
And he repeats his name and then tells me he reads this stuff I type on the RTF and likes some of it. I am stunned! I actually cannot believe who I am talking to. And what a great, one hour + conversation! The history of the fun game we all play that is bouncing around in this persons head is, as folk are passing on, and on. is almost unparalleled. We know so many of the same folks he and I. It was the type of conversation that, on a warm and Sunny Vermont day with all the training ponds still iced over just booted me in the backside to go back out on the lawn and keep working my dogs. It was a conversation that because of the talking style of the both of us ( talk the same way I type) was like riding a dolphin, it branched way off from it's intended porpoise. It touched on many of the people we both know. Some of the RTF personalities we both like, dislike, and enjoy poking, for fun. The history of the sport. The future of the sport. And the big "why are there so few new folks" 500 pound gorilla. The reason he called was because I had responded to his last post he had typed here on the RTF. It was just a simple paragraph thanking him for participating.
And the reason for this post you all ask????????? I would like the new folk and the say middle, been in it for a while folk. To make an effort to reach out and have a conversation with a grizzled veteran of running dogs. Just let them tell you stories. Remember the names they speak of. Much of the game we play only has an oral history.
The elder ones are the cool ones!
Now I am not going to tell you who called me. I could let you guess, I guess. His name, well the name he goes by. Reminds me of a Medieval knight, and his last name is not a primary or a secondary color. But let me just say Thank You for the call and the unintentional motivation Mr. _____. And I sincerely hope you remain your actual, factual, tell it the way you see it, type of person. Your kind ain't meant to be politically correct and every now and again, we need that. Both RTF, the dogs games, and the world in general.
Thank you all for reading, now go talk to an old fart!;-)
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