[fabsroman]

I left Nitro over my parents for a week when I went to the Outer Banks last week, and they tried to keep Nitro in the kitchen while they slept upstairs. My dad said he barked for hours on end and my dad had to sleep on the couch in the basement with Nitro so that he would stop marking.

Right now, Nitro is sleeping right behnd my chair in my office so that I cannot get up without waking him up. He does that every night. Once I get up, he will follow me up both flights of stairs and get into his bed beside my bed when I get into bed.

Labs are great dogs.

If you are planning on hunting Grizz over doves, make sure he is used to gun fire. Since you have already trained dogs, I figure you already know this. I had Nitro out dove hunting when he was 4 months old. At first, he couldn't figure out where the birds were and he wasn't marking them in the air. Now, when I have a shotgun in my hands and he is beside me, he marks everything in the air. Doves, geese, ducks, sparrows, mockingbirds, buzzards, hawks, helicopters, airplanes, space shuttles, etc. For the most part, he is pretty good about standing still, but when I get on the goose call or duck call, he starts shaking and sometimes before we end up shooting he breaks out of the blind when he sees the waterfowl. I love my dog and I am glad to see that he is as excited about hunting as I am. I hope you have the same thing with Grizz.