Charles “Cranston” Gass with Cash

As an avid waterfowl hunter, Cranston Gass knew that a Labrador retriever would be the ideal hunting companion. So, when his friend had a litter of black lab puppies from a prestigious hunting line, he knew he had to have one.

Gass brought Cash home as an 8-week-old puppy, and the pair quickly bonded over training sessions. “There are a few different things that go into training the dog. We start off with basic retrieval such as throwing a ball in the yard as a puppy and work our way up to complex land and water blinds,” Gass explains. Those early training sessions helped to develop Cash’s natural instincts to retrieve from a young age, and it certainly paid off.

Now 6 years old, Cash has become the best hunting companion that Gass could ask for. “The drive he has to retrieve birds is something special to see,” he says. “Cash is my best friend, and getting to hunt with your best friend is something everyone should get to experience.” Though he can’t express it in words, Cash makes it clear that he loves hunting with his best friend just as much. “If I wake up to hunt early in the morning and he sees me putting on camouflage, he will go and sit in front of the door to make sure I don’t forget him when I leave,” Gass shares.

From ducks and geese to quail and pheasants, Cash takes off like a rocket when it’s time to nab a bird, but he also has the discipline to wait patiently. “I carry a ‘tree seat’ that I use for him to sit on in the flooded timber. He just sits and keeps his eyes to the sky until it’s time for him to retrieve a bird,” Gass shares. “If not picking up birds, his favorite part of the hunt would probably be when my buddies sneak him a bite of their Little Debbies!”

Cash is just as special at home as he is in the field, and Gass says his personality is one in a million. “I have never met a dog that has a personality anything like Cash,” he says. “I don’t know that he’s ever had a stuffed toy that has lasted more than a couple of hours. He also thinks he’s the size of a cat and will try to sit in the window sill and keep watch of everything that goes on outside when he can’t be out there.”

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