The Squirrel Chronicles

So I go out this morning with the .22, since the dogs have found a squirrel. I'm leaving and the wife gripes that they drive her nuts while I'm gone, yapping at squirrels. In the mist, I put the scope on what I think is his head. He drops, but more in a flying squirrel type way and not the usual ball up and straight down. A short chase ensues with the lab being surprisingly quick grabbing and my dog, the wonder blue lacy, blocking escape and diving in too, refusing to release, even when bit (although I think the squirrel was losing its strength). I couldn't be prouder. I inspect the lacy after it's all over and she just has a slight skin tear around her muzzle. The lab goes back to her usual goofy, jumping all around ecstatic. She's had a great morning. I wipe the squirrel blood off her muzzle with a baby wipe and leave the wife to inspect and dry them off. Trying to get in the shower, the wife comes in and you'd think one of the grandkids
had lost a limb. Her lab is bleeding. Yes the skin was bit clean through, maybe an 1/8 of an inch max under her left front leg. Off we go to the vet. Vet has a hard time not laughing, but he's keeping her for an hour or so to put a couple of staples in it. And she gets to come home with the cone of shame. I'm going duck hunting.

Been there. One of the funniest things I've seen was my lab chasing and grabbing a squirrel I had wounded. She flung it 4' in the air when it bit back.

Been trapping the little tree rats around my house. The dog thought she needed to do her part.

We had one get into our backyard that couldn't figure out how to get out (I had taken out everything that our cat could climb on to get out and we have a PVC fence). I wasn't home, but my wife said our cat chased that squirrel all over the backyard. She (the cat) grabbed it by it's tail and had a mouth full of tail hair. After a while, the cat and the squirrel were laying next to each other exhausted.

JR

I feel for you, Creekrunner!

Try not to let any of the ducks hurt your fetch dog!

Turned into one expense squirrel hunt for sure.

If we ever hunt together CR, going to be hard for you to ask me to get something now, after I see how you treat the "help"

We get some big ones down here.

Vet for a squirrel bite? Did I miss something?

Daphne, the educated squirrel dog:

Technically, you won't know if she's "educated" until the next tree rat falls.

Ahh, the "Cone of Shame". My dog hates that thing.

She doesn't look real impressed with that cone

My lab grabbed a ground hog once, when that thing latched onto his face he couldn't get away fast enough... He never chased one again

Wish I could pop the tree rats at my place. In the city though.

Poor pup.

I love it when my dogs catch squirrels. The squirrels pick my peaches take a few bites and throw them on the ground.
My lab has been bit clean through the upper lip by a squirrel and not let go.

She's a trained duck dog and gentle with game birds and even brought me live opossums unharmed several times but ther is no mercy for squirrels.






They've caught about 5 of them but none in last 2 years. They did catch two 7 days apart once.

That an golf corses... Dang Rich City Folks... Did i ever tall ya's bout the time twas a member of a Country Club ? we was out thar on a par three... me pard smaked the driver, ball rolled just short of the hole, when two squirrels ran out & one tried hidding it in a hole... Some city clicker yelled Birdie so i pulle out me 4ta5 iron & shot a hole in one... We walked twards the thing, i reached down & pud it at the guys feet & said that thars a squirrel... Country club, that boy didn't know the difference...

Love your posts colt, but dang they are hard to read sometimes. Gives me a headache. Lol. Funny thing though. When I'm drinking they make perfect sense.

I hate to hear the squirrel got to your dog, but I think the dog gets the win.
My labs sit at the bottom of the fence waiting for a squirrel to run the top edge. They then yank them off the fence and it is game on. They will not just kill the squirrel, that is no fun. They play tug-of war and they seem disappointed when the squirrel finally gives out.
Better yet is when a dove flies into one of the patio windows. The "bang" is like a dinner bell, and the race is on to see who can get the free snack. My dogs are deranged.

that's what those high power pellet guns are made for!! ask my kids......

When a dove flies into my windows my lab sits at the back door with it in her mouth to present it to me, just like we were in the field.

I had a big sable gsd that was hell on squirrels after I wounded one with bird shot. It bit him on the tongue and he cried like a baby. I have seen that dog crunch huge boar coons, go in on big wounded pigs and gut shot white tail bucks. But he cried worse from that squirrel bit than anything that ever hurt him. My wife and I aren't the folks who will embarrass our dogs with trips to vet over a flesh wound though.

That gsd would sit for hours watching squirrels waiting for them to get far enough from the tree to catch.