Jones and I wanted just to say hi and hope to meet some new friends. He is now almost a year and is amazing in every sense of the word. He is NOT your average Lab, he is so mellow would rather lay on the couch and be petted than anything... We are working on blood tracking, I am a big deer/hog hunter and not so much of the fowl side (there's a joke there somewhere) but as smart as these dogs are there is no reason he could not be a great blood tracker. Anyways he is still young but has been on about a half a dozen hunts now and is getting better with each hunt.