Thanks Barry, That makes sense. Although he's my best mate and I think he's the bee's knees, at the end of the day his parents were just working dogs. Mother, tough on cattle. Father, good sheep dog. And i want him to be a hunting dog....
The blood lines of his parents are strong though, well the paper says they are. Mother is from A. Vaughan and ties back to L. Smith's, Ace. Father is from G. Young, and ties back to G. Dickie's, Tweed. Both national champs
He still has a natural instinct to have a very strong eye on anything, dogs, birds, rabbits, (deer, hopefully) and will tend to cast out naturally in open fields. All traits i have not worked on at all with him and know nothing about. I've just seen them on tv or read about them.
A photo of Ace i found online. Which i think is like looking into the future of what Nikau will end up aging like.
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