A dog born to hunt - we hope

After a few months of decide when would be the best time to get it and trying to find a decent deal, Nate just bought his second gun - a rifle - and was so excited to bring it home and show us. After taking it out of the box and getting it all put together Chloee decided to join in the admiring and ended up getting super excited!

Nate really wants to try and get into duck hunting with Chloee. With how scared she is of everything lately we both were really worried that she would end up being gun shy! I think it kind of upset Nate. We paid a lot of money for a pure bred lab who has champion field dogs as parents. She has to like it!!!

Well, to kind of get an idea of how she might react he put the gun up to his shoulder and bouncing it up and down a little bit in his hands said "Bang" a couple of times.

Much to our surprise she freaked out - and in a good way! While barking she jumped up and down and tried to jump on Nate and get to the gun, her tail wagging the whole time! He tried it a couple more times at random times and she did the same thing every time. She would get SO EXCITED!!!!

After seeing how she reacted we are a little more hopeful about her enjoying the duck hunts!

Our only concerns
- she likes the gun as long as it's not really being shot. He'll get her out there and totally freak her out when she hears it fire for the first time!! If that happens we're hoping she'll get over it quickly.
- If she decides she needs to bark every time she sees the gun those that go hunting with Nate aren't going to be to thrilled when she barks and scares all the ducks away!

Nate is taking her out this weekend to try out shooting with her - We'll have to keep our fingers crossed!