Much like tye we had a young lab hunting geese in the skagit valley. We knocked a big snow down in the water, it to was not as dead as it looked and when the young lab went to pick it up the goose bit him on the nose. The lab turned tail and swam but the goose chased him for a bit. Long story short it took quite awhile and the confidence of a much older lab to get him back on the geese. Nice to see your training is paying off with tye, you gotta love those labs.