Peanut
"Retired Mama Dog"
WSD SHR Princess Peanut-Buttercup JH DS DN CGCA CGC JRSHTR
02/2014-07/2021
AKC: SR81732005
UKC: R280242
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Peanut had a classic temperament with a corky happy-go-lucky personality that was very sweet, kind, and loyal with a high drive for game birds with an amazing on/off switch from the field to home. She enjoyed shed hunting (Antler Hunting) had a natural desire to fetch & retrieve which made her easy to train and was mainly trained with positive reinforcement, I did CC her but barley used the collar on her. She loved Pheasant hunting along partaking in AKC, HRC hunt tests, UKC Elite Shed Dog Series, NASHDA and Dock Jumping. Peanut started her Senior Shed Hunter with NASHDA and qualified to compete in the NASHDA World Championships 4 yrs in a row, she also started her CHSD with UKC Elite Shed Dog Series and competed in the first 2019 Elite Shed Dog National Championships where she earned her first CHSD pass, she also competed in the 2021 championships a well but I scratched her before she ran the 3rd series as she was not felling well (before she was diagnosed) Peanut was getting ready to run her first Senior/Seasoned AKC/UKC hunt test, she would do triple marks with breeze and casting for blind work. I was looking into UH and UFTA as she was an amazing pheasant hunter.
She performed in Dock Jumping with AKC NADD and her personal best in distance is 20.7' in DDWW DuelingDogs PB 6.656sec, reaction time 0.051sec. and DDWW Speed Retrieve PB 7.213sec.
Peanuts lineage was mainly of family hunting dogs with some show lines and field lines, she proved she had the temperament, drive, athleticness, and loyalty of the Labrador breed making her an all around amazing hunting partner anyone could ask for, she was an all around versatile sporting dog! Peanut is the start of my foundation, a dog I took a chance on with no background and she showed and is proved she is a great benefit to the Labrador breed... it reflects in all her puppies. Her pups are in sporting and acting family homes as well as service dog programs. I look forward to continuing my lines in the future with all her traits she has passed on.
Peanut started becoming ill off and on, I took her in and discovered she had lymes disease. After treatment she seamed to be doing better but again started becoming ill, once again took her in and started treatment for stomach ulcer and was considering she possibly had IBD. Once she saw the specialist we got her results and diagnosed with stomach cancer, by this time she was declining faster than the treatment would become available. It was a very difficult decision but decided to put her to rest at her given state and she was only given another 1-3 months even after treatment or surgery, she would of had a 30% survival rate. I felt it would of been selfish of me to put her though that only to hope she would possibly pull through. I will remember and cherish her forever, she was my sweet baby girl, my heart, and miss her daily.
Sandy May
Sandraya Caramella May
March 1999-October 2014
AKC reg: SN726172/08
Sandy was my first dog I owned and trained on my own. I knew nothing about training a dog for hunting at the time nore too much about the breed, I just knew they were great at fetching birds and trainability. I was told by many people to higher a trainer but I was young and very broke at the time, I had few people recommend me to read and train from the book "Water Dog" and so my journey into the Labrador world started.
I got her very young, about 7 weeks old and started training at 8 weeks, she had a great natural desire to fetch and please and refused treats and was all about praise. She was truly a natural and picked up rather quickly. At 8 months old I took her pheasant hunting at a small private club, my Dad and I arrived later in the day and talked to a few guys who had lost birds in the thickets. I sent Sandy in and she had fetched all the downed birds plus the birds my Dad and I shot along the way. We continued to stay all day and help the other guys at the club and she had probably fetched up around 25-30 birds that day and continued to excel in upland birds. At 9 months old she started waterfowl hunting and impressed the hunting party again with fetching a total of 19 duck, only 4 were visible and the rest of the 15 were blinds. We didn't have any big marshes or have big hunting parties that we hunted with but the times and limited birds that flew in were priceless and she worked hard for us. The only regret I have was not ever taking her to a hunt test.
I got her very young, about 7 weeks old and started training at 8 weeks, she had a great natural desire to fetch and please and refused treats and was all about praise. She was truly a natural and picked up rather quickly. At 8 months old I took her pheasant hunting at a small private club, my Dad and I arrived later in the day and talked to a few guys who had lost birds in the thickets. I sent Sandy in and she had fetched all the downed birds plus the birds my Dad and I shot along the way. We continued to stay all day and help the other guys at the club and she had probably fetched up around 25-30 birds that day and continued to excel in upland birds. At 9 months old she started waterfowl hunting and impressed the hunting party again with fetching a total of 19 duck, only 4 were visible and the rest of the 15 were blinds. We didn't have any big marshes or have big hunting parties that we hunted with but the times and limited birds that flew in were priceless and she worked hard for us. The only regret I have was not ever taking her to a hunt test.