This is William J's Queen of Cork. She was the foundation bitch of Gator Point Kennels. Corky was so smart and we were so dumb when she came to live with us that we didn't know that you had to train one, so she trained us. By the time we 'got smart', she had been hunted so much that she would not play the game of training with bumpers, she wanted feathers. Bill can only remember 2 birds she failed to bring back in her long hunting career. Of course, she didn't know that she was a dog. As far as she was concerned, she was 'people', and expected to be treated as such.
The reason we decided to breed her was that I would have a dog to pick up my ducks. We had two duck blinds on the Alabama River near Camden, where we lived. Bill would give Corky to me in my blind. I would have to put her on a leash and tie it to the blind to keep her with me. When I shot a duck, she would go pick it up and promptly take it to Bill at his blind. I wanted a dog to pick up my ducks so we looked for the best chocolate male we could find in our area (a son of Gunfields Super Charger) and bred her to him. We kept two females from this breeding, The pups turned out so great and the folks who got pups from this litter spread the word and we were asked to repeat the breeding. The rest is history.
We were truly blessed to have been given the opportunity to promote the chocolate Labradors.
Cleo
