Sitka Films: Say When
a lot of people wake up in the morning
and they check their Facebook on their
Instagram I checked the weather
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my name is Barton Ramsey and I breed
train hot Labradors for a living I’m
working dogs twelve months out of the
year
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rain shine burning up southern heat
traveling up north freezing cold we’re
outside we’re working we’re doing work
I’m training dogs for every possible
condition and environment in which
they’re gonna be asked to pick up water
fowl
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they’re picking that birds are picking
them up quick they’re not confused but
they understand hey I know my job here
dogs are not robots they’re very
different from every other piece of
hunting gear that you own
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anytime you come down to the kennels
before hunt every dog is looking at you
like can today be my day and there’s
this connection like the boys your day
we’re going
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like I just want to be out here I just
want to enjoy it doesn’t matter if we
kill anything like the dog is just
having a time of its life comes out with
you so my favorite waterfowl hunts have
just been me and a dog just taking a dog
out to Train and just having a memorable
moments with that that bond where you’re
working with the dog
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conservation standpoint I think dogs are
very helpful when you’re dark hunting in
the water especially I can’t tell you
how many birds we never were found
without a dog you know if you value the
life of the game that you’re taking are
we out to kill for sport or visit is it
a valuable meaningful experience that we
were participating in
water fowl exists in the harshest of
conditions and if you’re gonna be
successful in chasing them pursuing them
then you’re gonna have to be willing to
beat up there I’m looking thinking I
would want to go on that and the dogs
like you just tell me when
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I get to hunt with guys who have dogs
that I fed on their first meal of dry
food and I took them for their first
walk and they followed me around my
little ducklings in my yard and then I
go out and I see this 75 pound dog crush
him
that’s unreal feeling
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it’s a meaningful moment knowing you’re
giving someone not just like a piece of
hunting equipment you’re giving them a
friend a family member that’s gonna be a
part of their life or hopefully the next
12 to 15 years and it’s not lost on me
you know I think my job a lot of times
is to make a dog’s life better by
training them taking care of them
raising them properly sending them to
get homes but if I’m honest they
definitely make my life better
more often than I do anything
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I want to produce what’s best for water
Fowler’s to the hunting experience to be
enhanced by owning a gun dog
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