Due to all this work he's been doing, we havent had a lot of time together, so any time he has off on the weekends, its been nice spending time together. Saturday we spent the day with our retriever club, had a board meeting in the morning, then a training day that lasted til almost 4, then another meeting after that to plan for a big upcoming event we are helping host. It was a beautiful day!!! And although Cooper didnt run great, he didnt run too bad either. He's still balking at picking up the birds (yes yes, same story every time)... Met some new folks and had a great day.
Sunday we drove down to Winlock WA (2.5hr drive) to look at Marshall
We were very excited to go see him, he seemed to have just what we were looking for and upon arrival he was basically everything she had described; however, he had (what I would call) a bad club foot. The gal had mentioned it in passing upon my initial inquiry, but when I saw it in person, felt it was not really a minor issue but one that would concern me and how long he would stay sound. After reading online, sounds like many horses do just fine, but I dont want to take that chance. Lesson learned: If seller says they have a club foot, ask for a picture up front before wasting time driving down! He was a nice horse though, but I guess that means a better one is still to come.
We were going to go look at another horse after Marshall, but the gal sent a text that he had sold that morning. We'll see what we can conjure up this week to go look at over the coming weekend... ;)
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