Lady was a very nice  well mannered dog and  she  was  easy to  train, but  i did not take  her  training  far enough,since at  the time  we were managing  an orchard and  were very busy, A good  excuse! Lady had a very good  nose and could  smell the birds from further way than  Heine could,which was  great.

The problem was  we never took time to take her hunting enough, and she was not very good on retrieving like Heine, so we always took Heine. Believe it or not she  was a very good  mouser and  gogher  catcher. In an orchard  mice do a lot of  damage to the trees, in the winter they  will make a nest around  the trunk of the trees and eat the  bark for  their winter food. That is  why we would  spend  many  man hours cleaning  the  trash and  dead grass from around  the tree trunks before  winter sets in, then the  mice have no where to make a nest. But if  they did Lady would  find them, they were just  one bite  for her.

We had about ten acres of  new  apple tres  planted, we  had to keep a constant  watch on them to keep out  the gophers and mice. The  kids including  my daughter would  take  Lady  into the orchard to hunt  for mice  every day after school, by doing that  we were able to control the  mouse population.

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