A few pics of Cruz - 6.5 years old by William - the top sire at Black Hills Labradors
He is good at flushing Pheasant and Quail on the farm at Athenree - but I don’t shoot them - just try to breed them for the locals - hell, some might fly over to your place Ruff
He was great at indicating fallow when I had a block up the back of Te Puke - he knew every route that we could take through the bush and he would flush deer hiding in rubbish round the farm or orchard
He now spends three days a week with me on predator control killing possums and rats at the Te Puna Quarry Park or at the farm - it has been great to keep both of us fit
He is very strong and seems incredibly intelligent - I don’t know if it is scent or memory - but he can lead me round a line of fifty bait and trap stations over several hours - either at the farm or at the Park without missing a turn in the bush - don’t let Clark try to convince you Chocolate Labs are meat heads - 35 years of Yellow Labs - two were meat heads compared to this one
Any Lab will end up overweight if you feed them too much - Black, Yellow or Chocolate - they may have different constitutions - feed and exercise them accordingly
All puppies look cute - but this is Cruz at six months old -

He can indicate a possum or rat in a trap long before we get there - indicating a nearby possum trap on Tuesday -

A tidal estuary down the end of our street - new houses getting too close so we have banned shooting this year - he just has to watch the ducks -

Sent him up a rock wall at the Quarry on Tuesday to see if there were any rats up there - don’t let people try to convince you that Pedigree Labs cant step over a cow shit

I have lost the urge to kill game birds but now and again - he gets to carry a rabbit - he loves to carry dead possums - we have a game - I chuck them down the bank and he goes down and brings them back - until I get sick of it

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