Congrats, H., great training opportunity. I've been an Otis fan since I first saw him work. In a couple of years he will be bulletproof.
Thanks!.....I’m excited about next year already. I really want to go ahead and start training a second dog in the spring but AJ thinks I should give it one more season. I’m a little torn between what to do. In one way I completely agree with him that it would be much easier to spend one more season focusing solely on Otis and getting him fine tuned. On the other hand, I know it’ll take the same amount of time to get my second dog fully trained and I’m afraid if I wait that long then I won’t have a second dog ready when I need it. If I wait another year to start a second dog then you’re looking at a min of 3 more tracking seasons before I would have a second dog ready to go. The way I’m currently growing and getting my name out there….I’m afraid I’ll be running Otis in the dirt by that time if he is all I have to use. One bad cut or sore foot and I’m shut down with the phone still ringing. Right now, I still think I may go ahead with getting a dog next May. Otis’s puppy year was nothing more really than a bunch of runs to already located deer. I think I can spend the summer months training the pup and then just let it re-run some of Otis’s real tracks during hunting season. What do you think?
