• Gator
    A few things I like about flying
  • Full Speed Ahead!
    The runway and take off
  • Who says dogs can't fly?
    Being up there!
  • Or Swim!
    and the landings!

Gator

   is the foundation dog of Fraquelli's G'Force Retrievers
Hunting*Pointing Labs.

Whelped 4/20/2004; His wt.runs 62-70 lbs
Color-Black (does not carry chocolate or yellow).SEE health clearances on his stud page.



A little of our history

Spring 2004 I started my quest to raise and train a finished upland and waterfowl retriever to my idea of what a good gundog should be, working and learning together from his puppy days. Showing intense drive right out of the gate and a surprise at about 7 weeks (he pointed and not any trifling point).
        I decided he was showing me this is how it's going to be. So I adjusted. Boy did that turn out to be a dream come true. One that I had never planned on!

        In the upland he is one of the special ones that only come around once in awhile. Hunting mostly WILD birds; pheasant, grouse, and woodcock . Points well off the birds ( which if you grouse hunt is quite important ).
       A hunter first and foremost. The bottom line is he produces birds when hunting.


       Now I can say he's putting the goods in his sired pups. I'm keeping a close eye on the offspring with two I own. Also keeping in touch with owners of others.
       Totally amateur trained, Gator has an intense point. Hunting the upland with skills honed in the grouse woods.


Hunt testing was new to both of us. He took to it in his usual way passing all 21 HRC tests, including 14 straight finished passes. On our first venture in the APLA arena he passed the pointing certification test on Sat. Then stepped up to Master on Sunday and passed that with the highest score of the flight.



       "I have been very fortunate to have him, and have certainly learned more from him about bird hunting, than he has from me. Even a bit about life."

                                                     Gator, Rondo and Smokey's human, Frank