"At 13, I saw the glint go out of her, the breathing shallow, and I took her into my vet whose x-rays revealed the smoke of cancer in her lungs. In the fall of that year, I took her to South Dakota, where she slogged into thirty acres of cattails and would not come out until every rooster left. It was her last hunt."
In a lifetime, an avid uplander can have many dogs, all with varying degrees of innate talent, but there will always be "the one."
Read "The Ambassador" written by Thomas Reed, originally featured in the 2022 Summer Issue of the Quail Forever Journal, at the link in our bio.
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