WR Parker's Dash O'Pepper

WR Parker's Dash O'Pepper

"Pepper"

Picture taken on a hunt at the Bayou Meto Game Lands in Arkansas in 1984

Pepper was the first real "full-blooded" retriever I had ever owned, and event though she had a relatively short life, she is now affectionately known as the foundation dog for Back Creek Kennel. Fortunately for me, she knew more about fetching game than I did. Pepper was kind of like a prodigy in the dog world. She grasped the concept of retrieving game at a very early age, and before she was even a year old, she was winning gun dog hunt tests - usually over much more experienced dogs. Pepper also was the first retriever I owned that showed a natural tendency to point, a trait that served her well during our mid-west hunts. Pepper's life was sadly cut short when she developed the condition called "bloat" that causes the stomach to twist cutting off oxygen to the organ. Unable to save her, she was put down in 1986. Pepper was buried on an island on Lake Norman, very near where she began her short, but eventful hunting career.

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