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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
I've met a Sheltie and a Chocolate Lab with that name at the park over the years. Other than that, more often when I called that name, some feller would turn his head.  |
This reminds me of something that I think is quite funny. Prior to us having springers, we had a German Shorthair Pointer. His name was Mac. Beautiful dog, excellent disposition, but they were bred to be hunted off horses so they have a tendency to roam.
Anyhow, I live in the country by Priddis, we have a quarter section here. We have a small creek that we have damned up to form a trout pond. So usually when Mac disappeared off the yard, he was down at the pond chasing ducks or something. Anyhow, Mac was gone, so I hiked down there and was crying out, Macccccccccccc, Maccccccccccc, Maccccc, calling him. Our neighbors live fairly close to the trout pond and are Scottish, last name is MacKenzie. Well, our dog Mac never responded to me calling his name, but the neighbor came running!!!! I had forgotten that Mac was also the neighbor's nickname
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We got our first springer, Jessie, while we still had Mac. And our son was training her, taking her to some field trials etc. and they use live pidgeons, wings clipped. Anyhow, my son had 2 of these pidgeons and we kept them in an old rabbit coop down by the horse corrals. So when Mac disappeared yet once again, I looked all over, could not find him. I finally gave up and was just going to wait for him to come home. In the meantime, my husband went down to the corrals to tend to the horses. And there was Mac, pointing the pidgeons!!! Mac probably thought, gee, only took you a couple of hours to get here, I have been pointing these birds the whole time!!!