10/05/2026
🔥 PUT SOME RESPECT ON THE LITTLE BLACK ROCKET. 🔥
Twin Oaks traveled NORTH this weekend to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, for the Hardy Hill Gun Dogs UFTA trial — and SALTY doesn’t even begin to cover those field. 😮💨
We didn’t bring home any cheddar this trip, but that’s bird do***ng. Sometimes you haul home hardware, and sometimes you tip your hat to a DOG FIGHT and head back to work.
But let’s put this one into perspective…
Our little Birdie laid down a BLISTERING 2:34 run and scored a 182. 🔥
Then backed it up with another fast 5-minute run and a 167, finishing 12th out of 29 dogs.
TWELFTH… with numbers like that.
If that doesn’t tell you how salty this trial was, nothing will. 😂
So today, we’re giving Birdie the respect she deserves for hanging right in there with some dang good bird dogs.
Birdie is out of the great Kurdak Martyn of Otter Creek Kennels, and at only 2 years old, you sure wouldn’t know it watching her work a field.
Great genetics. Intentional training. And somehow the drive of about five bird dogs crammed into one tiny black rocket. 🚀🖤
Outside of Nationals back in February, Birdie has only seen a handful of trials — and the little thing has already figured out the game.
Her drive is unreal.
Her intelligence is unreal.
Her desire to retrieve is borderline ridiculous.
We’re fairly certain we could send Birdie after an elephant and she’d figure out how to drag the dang thing back. 🤣
And THEN there’s the personality.
Never have we met a goofier, sweeter, more excited little female. Ask Birdie to sit and there’s a solid chance she’ll need to throw in two backflips, a body wiggle and a celebration lap before her butt actually hits the ground. 🤣🤣
We’re firm believers that the right dogs find their way into your life at the right time, and Birdie is no exception.
She was one of those dogs that just… happened.
A friend had her, circumstances lined up, and at 6 months old she basically fell right into our laps.
She’s been a staple at Twin Oaks ever since.
And this winter, God willing, our little Bird will be bred to our Willer — a cross we have dreamed about since Birdie’s earliest days here. Two dogs we absolutely love, two dogs we believe in, and a breeding we cannot wait to see come together. 🖤
Birdie is an absolute pleasure to train, hunt over, travel with… and laugh at on a daily basis.
She may not have brought home the cheddar from Pennsylvania, but she damn sure reminded us what kind of dog we have sitting in our kennel.
Fast. Smart. Driven. Honest. And only getting started.
Glory be to God for good bird dogs. 🙌🏼🖤