mom out long before my parents decided to get her.
             The breeder bred English Pointers for field trial championships and shows. He had looked at Tia when she was born and said that she wasn't built to be a very good field trial dog for the championships. For that reason, my parents could get Tia at a reduced price as long as my father promised not to show her in any shows. Many years later, my father told us, "Tia was the best bird dog I have ever hunted with. I would easily put her up against any of these champion field trial dogs any day of the week, she would hunt them into the ground."
             After a year and a half, they had me. The day that my parents brought me home from the hospital, my dad told Tia that it was her job to watch over Kelsey, me, and Rosie, my mom. When my parents put me in my crib that night, Tia went and laid down underneath my crib. So that day she started her first day as my guardian, a fourteen year career. She would come and get my parents when I was crying to make them stop me because she didn't like it when I cried. We played together, took naps in the sun together, and she even cleaned me up after I had finished eatin
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