My Dad had a Springer for 11 years. It went on the job with us just about everywhere. Would chase squirrels and keep them treed until we opened a lunch box! LOL She was a great companion for my dad. Learned young not to grab fishing lures out of the air. Those jowels make for a pretty good hook-up.
Cash is all go, but came with some bad habits. He's been in a townhouse most of his life except the time he spent with me on the trapline this summer. They let him up on the furniture and he jumps up on everybody he wants to, or did. He doesn't like it when I step on his back feet when he jumps up on me, so quit that in a hurry. I have a couple pallets outside the back door to my shop where I keep skun beaver carcass' for my dogs frozen and to sell to guys looking for trapping bait. The local squirrels chew the fat off them, and Cash figured out he needs to be the first one out the door to chase them. Not much snow now, but when it gets deeper, he's likely to catch one before they get to the woodline. He jumped on a live muskrat I had in a trap once and found out they bite back. Wants nothing to do with Mink, I image because of the odor. He has to check out every muskrat and beaver that comes into the shop. Buddy of mine was here today to get some beaver tails I skin for him to make knife sheathes out of. He dropped one half way to his truck and Cash picked it up and took it the rest of the way to the truck for him. He chases leaves blowing across the driveway most every time he sees one. Kinda clings to me now, but the change of homes and owners that is expected. My three year old chocolate lab and him are the best of buddies already and just run circles around each other when I run them morning and evening. He'll have a blast in SD when I go next month chasing pheasant. Just took 5 dogs to the vet on Thursday for check ups and vaccines. It was $629.00 for all of them. That's getting a bit out of hand, but the rabies vaccine can't even be shipped into Mn. except to a vet clinic. What a racket!