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dickfoster
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Fritz is very friendly to people. Sometimes that has been a concern too but not so much around here. Most of the neighbors know him and he tries to visit to keep them all happy.
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Fritz is very friendly to people. Sometimes that has been a concern too but not so much around here. Most of the neighbors know him and he tries to visit to keep them all happy.
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dickfoster
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Fritz would do that too. After he stripped out two ratchet leases I put a rubber tarp strap on the end of the leash line and that solved that problem and took care of yanking your shoulder out of joint too.
I have a Black Mouth Cur who loves hunting, not organized hunting but he is always watching and ready to go. Chased several deer when camping out West and would always return 30 minutes later. He did dig under a fence once to get at the coyotes and came back needing dozens of stitches. Now we live in the Southern Appalachians and have plenty of deer and nearby roads so after he gave chase a few times I now keep him close by. I also have a young Pit that took off with him after deer, I was more worried about her as she was young and foolish and people don't always care for Pits and she didn't come back for 14 hours. Thought she was a goner but she showed up on the porch at 3 AM scratched up and tired. She stays leashed most of the time now, still to crazy to trust.
dmccarty
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I had a dog that was a Schnauzer, Poodle mix. The dog was either very brave or very stupid. Take your pick. :shocked:
He would chase ANYTHING irregardless of size. A neighbor had a big, old silly lab named Bear. Bear was, well, as big as a bear. :shocked: So of course my little itty bitty dog would attack Bear. :confused3: My dog could barely reach Bear's belly so attack is the wrong word, more like a nip and tuck. Bear would always look at my dog with this wondering look as to why this little yappy dog was pulling on his belly hair. One time Bear got tired of this and gave my dog a nip in return. :shocked: You would think this would be a lesson for the little dog but it was not.
I think this behavior was the terrier blood. The dog was bred to go into burrows and kill small critters and that is what the dog did. I saw the dog go into a brier patch after a bird and come out with the dead bird.
The dog would just fearless except for loud noises like thunder and gun shuts. :confused3:
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Dan
He would chase ANYTHING irregardless of size. A neighbor had a big, old silly lab named Bear.
Bear was, well, as big as a bear. :shocked: So of course my little itty bitty dog would attack Bear. :confused3: My dog could barely reach Bear's belly so attack is the wrong word, more like a nip and tuck. Bear would always look at my dog with this wondering look as to why this little yappy dog was pulling on his belly hair. One time Bear got tired of this and gave my dog a nip in return. :shocked: You would think this would be a lesson for the little dog but it was not. I think this behavior was the terrier blood. The dog was bred to go into burrows and kill small critters and that is what the dog did. I saw the dog go into a brier patch after a bird and come out with the dead bird.
The dog would just fearless except for loud noises like thunder and gun shuts. :confused3:
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Dan
Monday my Aussie came in the house all happy, and the toy he had in his mouth wasn't one of the usual ones he taunts me with (trying to get me to play "chase me"). It sort of looked like a stick in his mouth until he put it down. He was rather put out when I took it away from him.
It was a robin, with a worm still in its mouth. As far as I know, it was a first. I'm just glad the bedrooms were closed.
He caught a baby rabbit the first week we had him as a 10-week puppy. The eastern cottontail rabbits are everywhere near us, and were digging dens under bushes in the fenced yard to have their pups for a few years. The dog we had before the Aussie (a cattledog) also got a few, as have a couple of blacksnakes that we used to see from time to time. Since we put in the dog door and the Aussie has started spending as much time as he can outside we haven't had that happen again (yet?). I do see him following the scent trails now and again and I find their scat, so I know they are still coming in the yard.
Fortunately since we put a disk-to-dawn light on the chicken coop (well, it started out on the woodshed before we got chickens, but the coop has electric for the heated water and electric fence) we have not had any dogs get skunk sprayed through the fence.
The lab was visiting with a friends' rescue hound mix on their 10 acre property, when the two of them found and brought back the partially decomposed leg of a deer. Fortunately neither got sick from that, though once again they were put out they didn't get to keep it. To add insult to injury, they got baths. Particularly since that end of their property was all poison ivy.
I can't begin to imagine the mayhem if we actually had terriers...
It was a robin, with a worm still in its mouth. As far as I know, it was a first. I'm just glad the bedrooms were closed.
He caught a baby rabbit the first week we had him as a 10-week puppy. The eastern cottontail rabbits are everywhere near us, and were digging dens under bushes in the fenced yard to have their pups for a few years. The dog we had before the Aussie (a cattledog) also got a few, as have a couple of blacksnakes that we used to see from time to time. Since we put in the dog door and the Aussie has started spending as much time as he can outside we haven't had that happen again (yet?). I do see him following the scent trails now and again and I find their scat, so I know they are still coming in the yard.
Fortunately since we put a disk-to-dawn light on the chicken coop (well, it started out on the woodshed before we got chickens, but the coop has electric for the heated water and electric fence) we have not had any dogs get skunk sprayed through the fence.
The lab was visiting with a friends' rescue hound mix on their 10 acre property, when the two of them found and brought back the partially decomposed leg of a deer. Fortunately neither got sick from that, though once again they were put out they didn't get to keep it. To add insult to injury, they got baths. Particularly since that end of their property was all poison ivy.
I can't begin to imagine the mayhem if we actually had terriers...
Bird
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I'm sure I've posted this before, but the weirdest dog I ever saw was a Chow mix that just showed up at our place when we lived on 10 acres in Navarro County. He was leery of men and tried to avoid them, tolerated women, and loved little kids. He eventually got used to me. He NEVER barked, and only once did I ever hear him growl. He was lying close to his food bowl by the shop door when a starving pup showed up and went to eating. The old dog raised his head up, growled softly, saw that the starving pup was paying no attention, so he just laid his head back down and let the pup eat. Now we lived across the road from Navarro Mills Lake property; couldn't see the lake from our house because the property across the road was heavily wooded. That old Chow dog NEVER pooped a single time on our property. He'd just disappear in the woods across the road for awhile. At that time, I was raising New Zealand White rabbits; had 15 cages in the barn. Any other dog that went into the barn at all would terrorize the rabbits; they'd go berserk. But when he went into the barn, they not only stayed calm, but would sniff noses with him. He once caught a bird and brought it to me without hurting it, and I turned it loose. Then one day, after I plowed the garden, he brought me 3 baby cottontail rabbits, one at a time, that didn't even have their eyes open. He obviously thought I should take care of them and hadn't hurt them at all. I didn't see that nest when I was plowing.
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dickfoster
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I had a dog that was a Schnauzer, Poodle mix. The dog was either very brave or very stupid. Take your pick. :shocked:
He would chase ANYTHING irregardless of size. A neighbor had a big, old silly lab named Bear.
I think this behavior was the terrier blood. The dog was bred to go into burrows and kill small critters and that is what the dog did. I saw the dog go into a brier patch after a bird and come out with the dead bird.
The dog would just fearless except for loud noises like thunder and gun shuts. :confused3:
Later,
Dan
Yeah Fritz is a bird killer and any other thing he can get to too. I think all dogs have a weakness for squirrels but they usually just can't catch them. He is also terrorized by thunder and lightning so he's at least afraid of something. Maybe that's what I need, some kind of contraption to make thunder claps on demand, maybe then he'll listen or at least stop.
I've seen Fritz and our cat join up and double team birds before. Our cat adopts dogs and is how he came to live with us so we have a crazy cat too.
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dickfoster
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Good story.
robbyr
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Something my son in law sent yesterday.
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dickfoster
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Yep, that's Fritz. Road Trip, Let's Go, Ride and Treat are another matter altogether. I think they call it convenient or selective hearing.