Dan's Journal
FC Oahe One In A Million
Date Whelped:07/10/2006- Breed: Spaniel; English Springer
- Sire: CFC Towerbird Water Dragon
- Dam:Dominique’s Willow Sampson
- Owner’s: Daniel and Jennifer Murray
- U.S. Points:49 + 2 Guns Award
- Canadian Points: 2
Millie: Millie is a petite 30 lb. Springer bitch with a twinkle in her eye and a mind of her own. She has unmatched drive, and a flashy, highly animated style. She runs a beautiful pattern, has a solid flush, a perfect mouth, and is highly biddable. Millie is also the perfect house dog, quiet and relaxed until the tennis ball hits the floor; the classic temperament of the British-bred; English Springer Spaniel.
Millie has been finishing open-all age field trials consistently since she was 14 months of age. It took us one year of trials and tribulations before we received our first ribbon, a third place. Then we did some hunting on North Dakota pheasants for a season. Don’t let anyone tell you wild pheasants will ruin a trial dog! For Millie, the wild birds were an education and an inspiration.
2009 was Millie’s year, as she accumulated 35 open all-age points with 7 first place placements and was awarded the 2009 high point English Springer Spaniel open-all age dog in the U.S. A good business has led us to limit the number of trials that we enter Millie in. Her life has been reduced to hunting ducks, geese, pheasants, and sharp-tail grouse 2-4 times per week in the fall, poor thing. With limited entries, still manages to scratch a placement or two from time-to-time, and we are starting to see some greatness in a few of her offspring which we’ve had the pleasure to watch develop.
I sort of wish we didn’t love her so much, as now we can only wonder what kind of point accumulation she was capable of if she were owned by one of our great clients.