Best friends forever - Gun-dog kissing partridge

  • 9 years ago
The irony is that the dog involved is a Golden Retriever who loves to hunt pheasant and partridge. Yet, the partridge on his back is not fair game for the gun (or mouth/teeth), as she's a home bird, per se! So the partridge is adopted as one of his own and he allows her to walk all over him!

When she starts to preen on his back, he feels tickled and gets up in panic, and then feels foolish. So he immediately goes back to sleep and allows her to proceed with walking all over him!

True friendship captured by our camera wherein doggies and bird (Chukor Partridge) are playing around in peace.

The chukar partridge or chukar (Alectoris chukar) is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It has been considered to form a superspecies complex along with the rock partridge, Philby's partridge and Przevalski's partridge and treated in the past as conspecific particularly with the first. This partridge has well marked black and white bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to form a necklace that encloses a white throat. The species has been introduced into many other places and feral populations have established themselves in parts of North America and New Zealand. This bird can be found in parts of Middle East.

The Golden Retriever is a large-sized breed of dog bred as gun dogs to retrieve shot waterfowl such as ducks and upland game birds during hunting and shooting parties, and were named 'retriever' because of their ability to retrieve shot game undamaged. Golden Retrievers have an instinctive love of water, and are easy to train to basic or advanced obedience standards. They are a long-coated breed, with a dense inner coat that provides them with adequate warmth in the outdoors, and an outer coat that lies flat against their bodies and repels water. Golden Retrievers are well suited to residency in suburban or country environments. Although they need substantial outdoor exercise, the

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