Robert Little Guide Service and Bird Dog Training

I'm pleased to have won a couple ribbons yesterday at the Martime Bird Dog Club Labor Day trial.
Lilly, an English setter female owned by Tom Carton took the blue in the open shooting Dog stake. I've worked with Lilly the past two summers and she is maturing into a very nice little bird dog.

I took second in the open derby with another female setter named Brooke owned by Craig Chute. Brooke wasn't available for the picture.
I worked with Brooke a few times this summer and will be a nice dog for Craig Chute .

I got word from Meghan and Travis Riggs that Cairds Lefty was put down yesterday when it was discovered he had advanced bone cancer.
Lefty had an early field trial career that was off the charts for an off age September whelped dog.
Lefty won the US Complete Futurity in Hoffman, NC and placed second in the NBHA Futurity in Cedartown, GA. Later that same winter he came within a whisker of winning the US Complete National Championship at Hoffman only to bobble a late covey find. ( Had it won according to Judge D. Hughes)
Later that spring on our way home from NC he won the US Complete North East Championship in Rhode Island. That fall at the age of two he was named runner up at the North American Woodcock Championship.
A diagnosis of Addisons disease shortened his field trial career although he won another championship in his later years with the Ridings family in Georgia.
I was so looking forward to seeing Lefty again this fall as Travis was going to bring him to New Brunswick on his annual hunt. Rest in peace dear Lefty.

Does anyone in the Maritimes have a 2 or 3 hole metal dog box they want to part with. Looking for something with good solid doors and latches that dogs can't chew or beat their way out of. IYKYK
And, something that doesn't look quite as redneck as this.

A couple of stylish dogs doing what they do on wild birds this morning.
Timmy and Wh***ey.

Seven miles down and two miles to go.

Two time champion Cairds Cracklin Rosie on a nice ruffed grouse find this morning.

Ain't dat perdy.

Running dogs on wild birds never gets old.

And that's a wrap for the season. It was a great one.

Our last week of the season starts tomorrow.