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My New Hunting Dog
By Hannah Frisch
11 years, 6th grade
About two weeks ago I got a dog as an early birthday present. She is only about nine weeks old. She is a black lab and is really calm, but likes to play too. Her name is Bailey, but my dad calls her Bailey Beans sometimes. I don’t know why, he is weird like that.
She is going to be a hunting dog. We are teaching her to get pheasants. We practice by throwing tennis balls and she is doing a great job. We also have her sniff pheasant feathers to get her used to the scent of birds. I think she will become a great hunter. I’m really excited to bring her hunting because we have some good spots where we live.
I haven’t bow hunted a lot for a while since slug season because I don’t slug hunt so I have been playing with Bailey a lot.
It is really hard to get her potty trained. Trust me. We give her a treat when she does something good as a reward like going potty or poopy outside or even doing a good job of retrieving, but we only give her one to three treats a day. She really likes to chew on bones too!
We are bringing her to the vet this week to get shots and stuff. Hopefully it goes good.
I will make sure to pet her a lot and give her a lot of attention. We have been wanting a pup for a while so I’m pretty happy. We have a lot of fun together and I love her. She is one of my favorite pets I’ve ever had!
I hope that my next article will be about Bailey getting pheasants! I hope you have a good year hunting and if you have a dog I hope you are having as much fun as I am with my Bailey.
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