Goober is 7 years old and still has more heart than any of the other dogs on our yard. He is a fat old man now but in his younger days he was a solid athletic 65lbs of pure go and catch.
He is a solid wind dog that will stick with it but you can also put him in a head / retention pond and he is probably going to range any where from 500 to 800 yards +/- and if he can't stop it he sticks with it until we can cut him off or it stops to bay. He will also watch a spot light when we are hunting an open field.
In his younger days he would go much farther and didn't take any note of who was calling him off, he still doesn't if his mood strikes him right.
As a young dog he was all catch, the one that if he was out you were listening for and if he was baying you had better make it there quick because as soon as he seen an opening he was catching it...he can still get that way now but has finally learned to back up and bay as long as he doesn't have another dog with him.
He is semi-retired and should have been out along time ago, we have put alot into to him to keep him with us and he is a 'house favorite' whether we have visitors here at the house or we take him hunting.
His vice is he will bark on trail when it is real thick but any more he doesn't have much of a voice so now when he is out we have to watch the Garmin to see when he is stopped. We took him Saturday and he out lasted the young dogs....although we could never get anything stopped. He also doesn't like to share his dog box, but I think that is just because he knows he can get the best of my husband
He is the Uncle to our Chance dog, if that gives you an idea of how he was built when he was younger )he was the red ring neck dog I had posted a while back)....now he looks like a fat line backer
but he deserves it.
