I had the pleasure of meeting Eva, a Spinone Italiano, yesterday. The friendly, intelligent, obedient dog is now two years old, but her master has been training her as a hunting dog since she was a puppy. He said, with understandable pride, that he recently took her on a birding trip out to North Dakota and she behaved like a seasoned pro.
It seems there's some friction in terms of training philosophy between the owners: the wife likes to play tug-of-war with Eva, but the husband thinks that doesn't set a good precedent for pheasant and quail retrieval.
When Eva came to visit, she had been riding in the car for a few hours and was delighted to get out and run. She has a graceful, bounding, powerful lope that's a pleasure to watch. When she sensed that deer had been in the area, she flattened herself on the ground and intently tracked them with her nose. She didn't know quite what to make of the two horses walking across a nearby field.
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