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Hunting dogs are an indispensable part of a bird hunter’s arsenal but more than that, they are part of our families and enrich our lives. Today we say goodbye to a member of the Wingmen family, who helped make Wingmen possible. This video is a tribute to the life and adventures of Mackinaw.
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Nice tribute to your great Lab . Hope you enjoy many more years with your beautiful family.
You’re tribute video to Mackinaw has put a little bit of ease in my mind. Unfortunately I am preparing to put down my thirteen year old male Lab named Puck (like a hockey puck) he has been my best friend since the day I brought him home and he is the last of an amazing bloodline of duck dogs. Started with his grandfather Ravin who was a hunting machine. Massive black lab who required very little training. Then Tanner (Ravins son) who was a short stocky tough hunter. And then Puck (Tanner’s son) Puck provided me with love and loyalty that I’ve never had from a dog before. That dog has gotten me through some tough times in life. And I have have done everything in my capability to preserve his life and make things easier on him For the past three years as he was starting to show his age and started having troubles with his hind end. He suffered from a split pelvis when he was about six months old from a larger dog jumping on his hind end. He healed because he was young. But over the years he would suffer from short bouts of pain do to playing to hard or just a flair up of arthritis I’m guessing. I would sleep on the floor with him and tend to him like he was one of my sick or hurt children. But this time Puck isn’t going to come back from this. He is old and his hind end is now shot. And I can see it in his eyes and body language that it’s time. This is absolutely crushing my heart. I’m a person who loves with everything I have in me. I will suffer through any situation to prevent or to take pain away from others that I love. This dog is no exception. You love you’re dog the way I love mine. And thank you for showing people what it’s really like to own a hunting dog. And that these dogs are our family and not just a machine that we keep alive to strictly retrieve our birds. They are so much more to us. They are pure happiness, love and loyalty at it’s best. Who knows what becomes of us after life leaves our body, but I hope we will reunite with not only loved ones that have passed on. But with these incredible animals we love and cherish and have such a strong bond with. Something you feel so much love for and share a companionship with should, in my mind be reconnected with after this journey they where such a huge part of. Again thank you for this video. You have no idea how much of an impact it has had on me.