[wwbirds]

that is a yellow lab recognized by ckc, golden retrievers have long hair but I digress.
Ran the BCOA pheasant derby with some friends and hunted with a good friend and his great yellow Candi. Mid day someone shot a rooster that came down and disappeared in some cover. We worked the buffalo berry patch we had last seen the bird on the east side for 10 minutes and the dogs were not even acting hot.
With so many dogs and handlers we concentrated on picking up this bird we knew was hit. Preparing to give up the owner asked where Candi was and none of us had seen her in a while but all the other dogs were accounted for. We called and called and called and normally she would respond. One of he guys thought he saw movement 10 feet into the buffalo berry patch and waded in.
Candi was tangled in the brush with the partially slipped vest around her lower legs/feet so she could not go forward or back out. the guy waded in picked her up and was about to carry her out after freeing the vest when he noticed she had a live pheasant in her mouth so could not bark to let us know where she was. We just got back from Taber tonight, Candi no longer wears a vest.