What to do with a gunshy lab

I'm thinking this year we may just dress him up as a Christmas tree and put him on an extended sit-stay for the month. 

jt

p.s. wondering if Santa Paws has brought the Pennsyltucky hunters any venison yet?

another new bird dog

all this talk of bird dog puppies has made me nostalgic . . . . Some of you grousers have been around long enough to know that the first bird dog I hunted over was our Boston terrier Lucy, and I killed one of my first-ever grouse at Connecticut Hill with Lucy's help sometime in the early 90s.

well boys and girls we're back in the Boston terrier business at Chez Tantarlow--meet Henry, named after another famous transcendentalist Bostonian who will remained unnamed.

Henry belongs to my daughter Sophia, who saved up her own money for quite some time to get him.

Don't know how he'll be on grouse, though.

Pup number one arrives

The house is quickly losing all semblance of normalcy.

That used to be my pillow.

with factory-standard ears