Girlfriends first hunt.................

Thats great! Tell Amanda congratulations!
tell her this is from another females prespective- Once you start going hunting and seeing the dogs absolute love what they are doing will change your focus from worrying about when they are going to get hurt. None of us ever want to see our animals get injured, but when you see the dog making the "CHOICE"
to get closer or move in for a bite, it's not that you told them too, they just do it. Too me it's like people choosing to play football, you know it might hurt but you do it anyway, Or sky diving. They get to be junkies for the punishment because thats what they would rather be doing, and after you see this multiple times it takes away some of the pre-worrying about the injuries, you just accept it as part of the game and keep playing. If I did not enjoy watching my dogs work I would most likely not even hunt myself, Dog hunting is the only kind of hunting I do.