Television!!!

[Daveinthebush]

Well guys I broke down and put a sattelite in at the cabin.  It is the first time in 5 years that I have had anything more than occasional RatNet (public TV).

My God how things have changed out there! :eek:

[Matt in AK]

Brother be careful out there.  There's nekkid folks on some of them thar channels...and I don't want you goin' into shock on us :wink: .

[Stringer]

Shoot your TV! Thats just my opinion though. I quit TV 5 years ago and have not regreted it. I used to love sports and some other shows but don't miss them any more. When I am out in the brush or mts.  or on the water I some times think about you people flipping channels. I don't have any thing agianst it , I could just sit flip all the time and never watch any thing. Funny thing is I still don't have extra time when I wished I had a TV. And you are right things have really changed there is very little worth watching.

[Winter Hawk]

Until I got married this last time I didn't have a t.v.  I hardly ever bother to watch it.  If something happens to the wife the t.v. goes and I ain't getting another one.  Either t.v. or wife!

-Kees-

[Stringer]

Same here keesvw, no more women. This one is great, but I'll never have another.

[Daveinthebush]

Some of you are starting to contribute to the old saying concerning men in Alaska: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."

I thought that I was the only one that has a faithful, loving, devoted, doesn't care where we go, doesn't care when we come home, doesn't care what we eat, doesn't care what duck he retrieves........Yellow Lab. (Probably doesn't care that I bought 4 guns this month either!)

As Charlie Boulding once said up at Old Womans Cabin: "I love my first wife dearly. If she hadn't thrown me out of the house I would have never moved to Alaska."

[Winter Hawk]

Daveinthebush

You must not have read "Training Your Retriever" by James Lamb Free.  He felt that Labs not colored black were worthless...

-Kees-

[Daveinthebush]

I have had 18 yellow labs and everyone was great.  My bitch at the kennel used to sit and watch turkey buzzards all day wondering how to retrieve them.  She retrieved her first 2 Canadian geese at five months old. Poor thing could not even lift them up on to shore she was so small.  She even once divided eight dog biscuts into two even piles for her and Loomis my stud.

Loomis on the other hand is a thinker too.  Lays his stick and balls in front of the mower or snowblower becasue he figured out I had to throw them.  He will do hand or mouth signals to retrieve.

I love Yellows and will never have another dog except a Yellow.




 :grin:

[Winter Hawk]

Good for you.  And the dogs.  I believe that at the time Free wrote the book the colored labs were just being developed.  Or it could have been prejudice showing through.  

I've had a couple of black labs over the years.  The first one was a dandy.  I ordered him as a six week old pup from Bigstone Kennels when I was on Adak, he moved to Shemya with me, then back to Fairbanks.  He was stolen a couple of months after we came to the big city.  That was in 1969.  Dirty scumbags went around and stole over a hundred dogs with plans to haul them to Canada and sell them for research.  Kept them chained on a vacant lot, and someone turned them in.  Troopers put them all down because distemper had got into them.  That really torqued me off, that they didn't even try to let folks know.  Bobby was tattoed and had all his shots, so I could have IDed him.  Only way I found out about it was from a neighbor who worked for the jail.  His dog was among them and the cops let him say goodby to her.  I still have a sour taste in my mouth about that.

-Kees-

[Stringer]

It's hard not to be passionate about a dog that works so hard to please you. I have a 7 year old golden who I'll never replace. I hunted over his parents so I knew I wanted a pup when they came.
  Sorry to hear that keesvw, our bear dog pup was recently shot yards off our property and I am pretty certain who did it. If that happens to the golden I'm not certain I can keep my cool.

[Daveinthebush]

I had someone shoot one of my labs and that is one of the reasons I am up here today.  The guy was an unemployed, drug user, alcoholic, wife abuser.......looser.

He is damn luck to be alive.