Went with Pete and Dale to the vegetable garden. Ruby struck in the near woods and trailed a little then quit. Some kind of junk I suppose, maybe a possum again? Bronco popped up a coon on the north edge of the corn. Ruby went to him, I could tell she didn't exactly like covering another dogs tree. We sent them on from there along the ditch. Ruby opened in the swamp after about 15 minutes. It sounded like she was treed & I headed in. She was just fumbling around in the wet grass, I grabbed her and walked out. Bronco was doing the same a little to the east. He finally went west and treed. Pretty close to where I picked up Ruby. I guess I should have just let her work. It's a bad swamp there though & I didn't want her to get in there and waste the whole night. Anyway, time to start turning her into an adult dog. I'll have to hunt her with strange dogs and in different spots more. I've protected her pretty well so far, but I can't keep holding her back forever. This next 6 months is the part of training a dog that I hate.
Darn, my camera holster got ripped off of my belt while going through the swamp. I didn't notice til I was back in the field. Another $300 down the drain. I've lost about $1300 worth of stuff in the last year and a half. 2 phones, a tracker and now the camera.