Dog stories

[Dftodd]

my brother had one of these dog, a weimaraner with major separation anxiety, one time he got out of his cage while he was gone at work and he tried to get out of the house, you could see the K9 marks on the door knob, every windows screen of the house where ripped off and while doing so he open the sink tap and turn it to the hot water and he has hot water on demand so it never ran out lol … when my brother came home there was a fog inside the house and water dripping from the sealing from the humidity.

My buddy's brother in law had a great Dane with major separation anxiety.

In an hour, the dog did $2,000 in damages to the house, plus another $1500 in vets bills from a deep gash it recieved from a busted window.

 

[Joel/ak]

In the 1990's we were at my folks place in Chamberlain SD so see my folks for a few days as we passing through town. My dad had been trialing border collies for many years by then and when chatting with my spouse said to her "you guys should take Holly home with you, she's arthritic now and can't run sheep anymore. She'd be good with you guys". Shocked over this statement and we had no dogs at that point. So we talked about it for a few minutes and took her home who was about 12 at that time. My mother was shocked he'd give her up. Here she is. View attachment 850614View attachment 850615

We took in a husky mix once...only once. She was a part of my buddies sled dog team. She has been to nome 3 times for the Iditarod but when he retired her, she could only run about 7-10 miles and then that was it until she rested in the basket.

We took her in and joni loved to run. Wife wanted to get into skijoring (spelling, I know). When joni got into a harness, it was like jekyll and Hyde. She wanted to run. On one run through the neighborhood, my wife had a brain fart and dropped the lead to adjust her gear. Signal for joni to go.

I forgot how many blocks we had to chase her down. A sled dog on a full out run can cover some distance.

Finally got her and wife just said...oops

Great pup but with a race dog, we just didn't have the property and room to let her run.

 

[JasperFrank]

Most dogs do not understand motorcycles. The last three would pull on my pants legs, hard, if I was to go for a ride. I think Dogs don't understand that you are controlling it. They think it has taken you like a predator might. And they just want to pull you away to safety.

 

[Jstpssng]

Most dogs do not understand motorcycles. The last three would pull on my pants legs, hard, if I was to go for a ride. I think Dogs don't understand that you are controlling it. They think it has taken you like a predator might. And they just want to pull you away to safety.

When we were kids the neighbor's dog was like that when we were water skiing. She would run up the road which ran next to the lake, chasing the boat. One time she even swam out and chewed the rope while somebody was getting ready to go up.

 

[Dftodd]

I've been knocked down with Bronchitis the past week or so.

Well Saturday night, I slept out in the recliner since each time I played down I felt like I had a gallon of water in my lungs.

Well gypsy came down and checked on shortly after I sacked out in the recliner. Then went to bed with momma.

About 4am, I got awoken to a thump from a paw to the arm. Then some prodding with a nose. Then some more thumps from the paw.

So I got up to see what she wanted.

I started walking towards the bedroom and she stayed tight to my side. When I stopped, she stopped.

If I started to go back to the recliner, she would thump we with her nose.

When I headed towards the bedroom she would then walk right tight to my side.

Well by this point I figured put she was escorting me to bed

We did have to have a quick compromise so I could use the bathroom in peace.

She waited patiently outside the bath room. And completed her escort duties when I was done. Escorting me right straight to bed and thumping me in the leg if I tried to deviate

Once in bed, she hopped up between my wife and I and tucked her head into my shoulder

 

[Rockbadchild]

Last fall I brought my lab hunting (her second exposure), and we saw so many birds it was crazy, a very good experience for her and she got the hang of it but once I got my limit it was over for me but she didn't know that, poor her she kept flushing birds left and right but couldn't understand why I wasn't shooting them lol ... I still made a point to praise her when she do so.

 

[Jstpssng]

Last fall I brought my lab hunting (her second exposure), and we saw so many birds it was crazy, a very good experience for her and she got the hang of it but once I got my limit it was over for me but she didn't know that, poor her she kept flushing birds left and right but couldn't understand why I wasn't shooting them lol ... I still made a point to praise her when she do so.

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Both of my previous labs were great at finding them. You had to be an excellent wing shot with a 22-250 to connect, however. I hope to train my next dog a little better, and have a few wings in the freezer to start it on.

One fall day I shot a grouse with my .22 pistol but it flew off. For some reason Ruger was at home and I assumed I had missed.

A month later we were working in the same area and he found it.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Both of my previous labs were great at finding them. You had to be an excellent wing shot with a 22-250 to connect, however. I hope to train my next dog a little better, and have a few wings in the freezer to start it on.

One fall day I shot a grouse with my .22 pistol but it flew off. For some reason Ruger was at home and I assumed I had missed.

A month later we were working in the same area and he found it.

pistol ehn yeah not a easy shot with that... it happens ...I had pointers and retriever and my experience is when they fly off then its pretty much game over for your dog, they can't follow the sent in the air... in your case if it initially fly off then fell and you chased it with you dog then yes you have a chance on finding it ... As dumb as these bird are they are master at diversion and camouflage sometime you think they flew off 300 ft in a straight line in the bush but then you find it 100ft in from where you saw it and off to the side while on your way back... or was it the same one ??

I mostly hunt with a 20 gauge because then if I see a duck I can shoot it, sometime I do hunt with my .17 but not often. I like hunting with my dog, they will inevitable make me miss a few opportunities but they will find a lot more bird that I wouldn't have seen without them... in my experience it take 3 season to have a pro hunting dog one can't expect too much of them the first two seasons. This year she started alternating between ground and air sent which is nice to see, she figured out they are not always on the ground.

 

[bigtiller]

Back in the 60's, on our black lab's second pheasant season, he was 20' in front of Dad and scared up a rooster. Dad shot and missed. The lab turned around and just looked at dad. The dog had a look on his face as if to say something very derogatory about missing the shot.

He really wanted to fetch that bird so he could get an at-a-boy from his alpha person.

 

[Jstpssng]

pistol ehn yeah not a easy shot with that... it happens ...I had pointers and retriever and my experience is when they fly off then its pretty much game over for your dog, they can't follow the sent in the air... in your case if it initially fly off then fell and you chased it with you dog then yes you have a chance on finding it ... As dumb as these bird are they are master at diversion and camouflage sometime you think they flew off 300 ft in a straight line in the bush but then you find it 100ft in from where you saw it and off to the side while on your way back... or was it the same one ??

I mostly hunt with a 20 gauge because then if I see a duck I can shoot it, sometime I do hunt with my .17 but not often. I like hunting with my dog, they will inevitable make me miss a few opportunities but they will find a lot more bird that I wouldn't have seen without them... in my experience it take 3 season to have a pro hunting dog one can't expect too much of them the first two seasons. This year she started alternating between ground and air sent which is nice to see, she figured out they are not always on the ground.

My first dog, Musquash taught herself to find them. I believe they do leave some scent when flying as she always knew what direction to go in. You might hear her going back and forth slowly as she searched, then she'd stop. Pretty soon you would hear her coming straight back out and you knew her tail was up, her head was high and the bird was in her mouth.
She used to bring them back alive but must have gotten pecked as after a few years she developed a harder mouth.
One time I was with a coworker heading into the woods to start cruising. He stopped and shot at a bird but it flew off and he made no attempt to find it. We went 1/4 mile down the road to establish his starting point which just happened to be where he shot at the grouse so I opened the door and said " go find the bird." There was no hesitation, she ran down to where it had flown from, took off into the woods and came back with it in her mouth.
The last fall that I had her, birds were hard to find. I only shot one, that was in December with a foot and a half of snow on the ground. She was all crippled up but bolted out of the truck, ran to where it fell and started bringing it out. Several times she fell and I had to help her up but she wouldn't let go of that bird... I think she knew that it was her last one. I put it in the freezer without cleaning it. Two months later I buried it with her.
Ruger was a year old when I got him and always had a hard mouth, which I attributed to being hungry for the first year of his life. Yet he still liked to retrieve, I just had to be right there or he'd eat it. He could be sound asleep in the back seat but all I had to do was reach toward the gun and one eye would open... pick it up and he'd be looking around for the bird.