Hunter and his new dad

Hunter and his kids

ADOPTED!!!

I am a little behind on posting this, but Hunter was adopted by a wonderful family in Browns Mills, NJ in June. Here is a pic of him on point. He will be hunting pheasant in NJ as well as living with some children and his new mom and dad. They love him....

Hunter and his simple pleasures...

Hunter finds a green ball enjoyable.

Signs Hunter is rubbing off on me...

Hunter and I were at the computer earlier, and I realized that his insanity may be contagious.

He was clacking his teeth (GSP folks, you know what I mean--that "clack, clack, clack" when they are over stimulated) and I started clacking my teeth right back at him. He was sitting halfway in my lap while I was checking email (yeah, sign #2 right there) and was making his "whiney Hunter" sounds. So I started trying to imitate, and we had a good time for a minute.
So I guess Hunter and I both need to be taken away somewhere that has nice people in white coats :)
Seriously, Hunter is a very affectionate boy once you get past the zany, over-wired, high-drive behaviors. He knows his name, and gets his feelings hurt if he is corrected harshly. He wants to please, but doesn't quite know how sometimes. I took my own GSP and 'houla boys hiking the other Sunday--while we were descending the trail I thought that I should have invited Hunter and maybe left the 'houla at home. Hunter is a good boy but is not, I repeat, not the dog for just anyone. His handsome appearance comes with a contract to exercise his mind and body.

The apple of Hunter's eye...

So, in the past weeks I have started a list of things Hunter is obsessed with.
Here are a few:
socks (either laying around or on your feet, doesn't matter to Hunter)
pull cords on ceiling fans
birds
squirrels
trees that had a squirrel in them yesterday
moths
water bottles (empty or full)
Toby's (resident pitbull) butt
a set of windchimes (hokey, I know, they were my grandma's) in the office--they are shaped like birds, though, to Hunter's credit
shoes
toys
bees
doors (especially closed ones)
water (either for drinking or for splashing in)
trees that had a squirrel in them last month
trees that may have had a squirrel in them at any given point in the tree's life
flies


All in all, Hunter is a wonderful boy. He will be hard to place as I am not super confident that a "normal" person will be able to deal with Hunter's super-fried, super wired GSP brain. He is very trainable and very smart. He is very sweet--he likes to cuddle.

Fun at Two Rivers Park...

Hunter and Toby (Toby is an honorary pointer, he's really a pit bull) went to Two Rivers Park near Little Rock, AR on Sunday. It was hot but not too hot. They had a blast, especially Hunter checking out all the critters. We met a couple that had a 10-year old female GSP. They were very taken with Hunter, and were also pleased to learn that there is a rescue for spotty dogs. We exchanged information and hopefully they will adopt another spotty dog.