Cbrown3020
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Well I had a surprise visit last Sunday that made me proud so I thought I would share it.
It started about twelve years ago when my lovely wife set me up. I live on a busy rural road in Mystic Ct so I was always against having a dog so I wouldn’t have to deal with it being hit on the road. Well I had always told her that if we ever did it would be a beagle. So the first week of January my son’s birthday he comes to me and said he had saved up enough money and had found a dog he wanted to buy. I hemmed and hawed then asked him what kind of dog he was looking at. He looked at his mother smiled and told me it was a beagle. I new I had been set up and had. So we went and looked at the dogs. She latched onto him immediately so I gave in. The best decision I could have made looking back. Now realize that I know nothing about training a hunting dog. So I started doing some research and was very fortunate to meet and become very good friends with an old Italian fella who graciously shared his vast knowledge of hunting beagles with me.
So then two years later on his birthday with his new hunting license he shot his first rabbit. I had collared up the dogs and sent him on ahead to put them in the brush while I finished getting my gear on. I heard the dogs open up right away then just as I locked the doors to the car I heard the shot then “I got him”. The picture on the top right was his first rabbit. So as years went bye we did our fair share of hunting the dogs together.
Well as he got older we butted heads quite a bit. I was trying to make a man out of him and not always doing a very good job of it. But from time to time we would 
always go hunting together. Well he came home last weekend and asked me if we could go hunting. He is now 24 years old and employed as a lineman for the Block Island power company. Now tomorrow I will get to meet my first grandchild thanks to him. So I guess my point to this story is that I had no idea what I was doing with the dogs or my son but it has worked out. I contribute the success to the hunting and the dogs. To this day I always make it a point to go out of my way to take new kids out hunting with the dogs. The kids are great I could tell you stories about them for days!!! I’m a very blessed man all because I was setup by my loving wife.
It started about twelve years ago when my lovely wife set me up. I live on a busy rural road in Mystic Ct so I was always against having a dog so I wouldn’t have to deal with it being hit on the road. Well I had always told her that if we ever did it would be a beagle. So the first week of January my son’s birthday he comes to me and said he had saved up enough money and had found a dog he wanted to buy. I hemmed and hawed then asked him what kind of dog he was looking at. He looked at his mother smiled and told me it was a beagle. I new I had been set up and had. So we went and looked at the dogs. She latched onto him immediately so I gave in. The best decision I could have made looking back. Now realize that I know nothing about training a hunting dog. So I started doing some research and was very fortunate to meet and become very good friends with an old Italian fella who graciously shared his vast knowledge of hunting beagles with me.
So then two years later on his birthday with his new hunting license he shot his first rabbit. I had collared up the dogs and sent him on ahead to put them in the brush while I finished getting my gear on. I heard the dogs open up right away then just as I locked the doors to the car I heard the shot then “I got him”. The picture on the top right was his first rabbit. So as years went bye we did our fair share of hunting the dogs together. Well as he got older we butted heads quite a bit. I was trying to make a man out of him and not always doing a very good job of it. But from time to time we would always go hunting together. Well he came home last weekend and asked me if we could go hunting. He is now 24 years old and employed as a lineman for the Block Island power company. Now tomorrow I will get to meet my first grandchild thanks to him. So I guess my point to this story is that I had no idea what I was doing with the dogs or my son but it has worked out. I contribute the success to the hunting and the dogs. To this day I always make it a point to go out of my way to take new kids out hunting with the dogs. The kids are great I could tell you stories about them for days!!! I’m a very blessed man all because I was setup by my loving wife.
