We are in the third week of having her, and what a dog, the fit couldn’t have been any better. The reports that you gave us during your evaluation of her training, abilities, and mannerisms are right on the mark. Now I understand the advantage of your system of evaluating a dog before putting them out for adoption. Tikka surely doesn’t know or act as if she is 12 years old, and we wouldn’t believe it either if we didn’t have her pedigree showing her birth date. The wife has not had or been around a dog that acts as she does when in the house, car, or truck, not a problem one, wife is tickled. Other than maybe for Tikka’s stamina, which she shows no lack of, the wife and I at 76+ are both a little short of stamina ourselves, I’m sure she will hold her own this fall when hunting with those young pups, owners, and their dogs that we hunt with. They’re already impressed. The only thing worse than an old hunting dog who doesn’t have a hunter to hunt with is an old hunter who wants to hunt but doesn’t have a dog to hunt with. Our first real hunting partner lived to be 19, our last hunting partner, I put down this last December, lived to be 17. So began the quest for Tikka. Please feel free to give our contact information to anyone that might have questions or reservations about adopting an older hunting dog, we would be glad to share our experiences with them.
