We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
I've never heard of a Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever. I knew about the Kooiker Hound because my Opthomologist has two of them. - he's a big time duck hunter.
Nice looking dog. Got plenty of some type of spaniel in the mix obviously.
...still the saddest movie ever made --Old Yeller --we younguns was crying like babies when they had to shoot Old Yeller. Kinda mean of old Uncle Walt, come to think of it!
Old Uncle Walt was a pervert, the kinkiest of them all. Besides killin' off Ole Yeller, he kilt Bambi's pop, had that tart Snow White livin' with seven short randy men, had Cinderella livin' with a couple of mean lezbein sisters and a duck walkin' around with NO pants.
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Vermont Woodchuck
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2009-12-12 09:27
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OK, now you need to go into an explanation of what "tolling" is.
Injun's taught their dogs to "parade" along the shore of rivers, oceans, ponds, etc. to get the attention of waterfowl.
I believe they learned this behaviour from foxes. The birds came in and you can figure the rest. Well that's the way I heard it, and I'm sticking to it. So the Novi's followed suit with their doggies, which are a cross between a Golden and another breed. Tollers are very pricey in my parts.