my wife thinks im nuts

[Dan Christopher]

i told my wife the other day that when my 5 year old duck dog dies some day ,hopefully10 years from now.i am going to hollow out a nice wood decoy and put her ashes in it and seal it up...that way when i go hunting i can take my dog with me and put her out in the decoys so she can hunt to.well my wife thinks i am nuts.
:depressed:

what do you think ???? am i nuts

[ 08-28-2002, 12:31 AM: Message edited by: MADWIZERD ]

[bait boy]

Yep, sure enough crazy as a loon. you know how those duck hunters are with their dogs....
They don't call them mans best friend for nothing.

[TheRogue]

It's ok, MW, everyone here thinks you're a nutcase also

[Bait O' Eggs]

you bought a yellow boat didnt you??

[tag-a-long]

Yep, you are certainly crazy... I have the name of a doctor that may be able to help, but he might be busy stuffing his bird dog...

[surejam]

I thought my wife was the only one that wanted to "keep the dog around", she wants to have our boxer stuffed when she goes. I keep telling her she is crazy but it seems others are wanting to do the same....
I like the ashes idea better....

[Lured In]

A spry older gentlemen (no offense to those of you in your late seventies), who is a friend of my fathers, did something a couple decades ago that I thought was pretty neat. He regularly hunted 'the straights' down in Klamath for geese in his earlier days. He has two of his dogs buried out there, in the wheat fields.

I thought it was a very fitting thing to do, although probably illegal, and someone would surely throw a fit today.

[chummer]

I told my wife and pals back in hermiston that when i kick off, cremate me, load me up along with some steel shot and take me hunting one last time :grin:

[Crashin' Bait]

LOL! Chummers special buffered shotshells. You'll be getting in everyones face.

[Dan Christopher]

chummer i thought i was nuts...you win man

your buddies can eat duck loaded with steelshot and chummer flakes..

you win

[ 08-29-2002, 12:29 AM: Message edited by: MADWIZERD ]

[Chum King]

Nuts?

To label you as nuts would be to cast aspersions upon the entire ifish.net community. Whom among us has not walked the fine line between insanity and enthusiasm in the pursuit of fur, fins, or fowl?

Nay, I think not ill of you. It is only that your spouse does not comprehend the depths of devotion to your avocation, the connection between man and dog, and the level of spiritual enrichment that occurs when you are in the field.

Then too, maybe you just ate a burger tainted with mad cow disease. :grin:

[chummer]

Wha'd he say? [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]

Nay! say I, tis salmon the "other" pink meat

[Baldpate Basher]

Well let's face it you are all nutz, but chummer is the farthest out in there.
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Of coarse I'm as right as rain, right? [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

Baldpate! Baldpate! Baldpate! Baldpate! Baldpate!

[chummer]

skein, I know your sorrow. I buried my lab on the banks of the columbia 2 years ago where we had our best hunting together. When i hunt i still go over and visit. She now has the best seat in the house. :depressed:

[skein]

Count me in! At least once every time I train with my pup, I toss the dummy over where my old lab is buried so she can "play" too. Sometimes I even ask, "What do you think, Molly? Is she gonna do okay?"

Man, I can't believe it! I'm getting choked up just writing this....

Enuff.

Skein [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]

[skein]

I just received my latest issue of Precision Shooting, and right behind the cover is the following quote:

I heard somebody define heaven once," she said, looking at Pearl, "as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you."

.....Robert B. Parker in the novel "POTSHOT"

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">Works for me.

Skein

[Dan Christopher]

sounds good to me