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Thank you. Where's Fielder?

He's gone to the dogs.

Hey, want to thank you for joining the Gone to the Dogs podcast today.

It's my wrap-up of the UKC Winter Classic coverage.

It's Monday morning as I'm recording this and just arrived back home about 4.30 yesterday afternoon.

Did a round trip from here on the Gulf of America up to Birmingham and then on

to Batesville, Mississippi, and return.

All together, it was better than 1,500 miles.

So those of you who complain, I heard a guy on something, some podcast the other day saying that he had to drive 15 minutes to go hunting, or 15 miles maybe.

And that was an effort.

Well, when you live in Florida, if you want to go to Major Coonhound events and you don't

own a jet plane or a helicopter, you're going to spend some windshield time.

But we had a good time.

We went up to Nubbins and overnighted with he and Becky

and then went on to Batesville. We had good weather all the way over. Got there on Thursday just

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