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There comes a time in every great hunting dog’s life that they will point their last bird. There comes a time in all our lives that we will bid someone farewell for the last time. Sometimes we will have a great sense of when those times are imminent, and other times they will come as an unfortunate surprise.

So it was when my stalwart Gordon Setter “Caena” arrived at her 13th October. I knew that sometime that fall she would point her last bird. She was completely deaf and nearly blind, but she still had the nose she had become famous for in my hunting circle. Her entire life she had always checked in visually with me to make sure we were working together, so I…