First photos ever witnessed of this elusive, rare breed of bird dog.








Only left the dog in that condition for a day to give my forearms a chance to recover from all that plucking/hand stripping Sako's coat for well over two hours. Pretty much filled up an apple box with her outer coat,,,,almost enough hair to make an ankle biter sized dog.





Finished up the hand stripping job the following day but it will still need a bit of fine tuning on a couple of body parts. In any event, she went from having a coat as thick as a sheep from doing all the winter waterfowl hunting 3-4 times per week to looking like her svelte self. Should keep her a bit cooler now this summer.


Spring/summer mode:





Fall/winter mode: