Ogie, the Labrador retriever who was not a hunting dog but became a member of the family of Rich Myer, will be remembered forever in a duck-decoy urn.

We had been hunting ducks and geese and were overnighting at a Winnipeg hotel. As Bud commonly did, he left Annie, his Labrador, crated in his Suburban. As I commonly did, I snuck Sage, my dog ...

The 12-year-old English pointer and Labrador retriever mix is no spring duck, as it were, but after a long morning of collecting downed birds, his energy levels hardly wavered.