TrapperReady
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Anyone have any stories about their dogs doing something out of plain-old spite?
I was talking to a neighbor last year, and he's got an old lab which accompanies him on the occasional grouse hunt. My friend had gathered up a few guys from the neighborhood and went into the woods for a couple days of grouse hunting and poker.
As it turned out, the grouse were quite uncooperative, and they were only able to find one on the first day. It got up fast and with enough cover between itself and the hunters that it was in no real danger.
However, the second day, the dog put up two birds... the second one of which was hit. It came down on the far side of a stream, about 40 yards away. When told to retrieve, the lab (mostly a house dog and getting up there in both age and weight) looked at her owner like he was nuts.
After several minutes of refusals, he picked her up and tossed her into the stream. Once wet, she paddled across and picked up the grouse. Then, while looking at the entire group, she proceeded to eat the bird before coming back to her owner.
He didn't seem to appreciate my laughter as much as I appreciated his story.
I was talking to a neighbor last year, and he's got an old lab which accompanies him on the occasional grouse hunt. My friend had gathered up a few guys from the neighborhood and went into the woods for a couple days of grouse hunting and poker.
As it turned out, the grouse were quite uncooperative, and they were only able to find one on the first day. It got up fast and with enough cover between itself and the hunters that it was in no real danger.
However, the second day, the dog put up two birds... the second one of which was hit. It came down on the far side of a stream, about 40 yards away. When told to retrieve, the lab (mostly a house dog and getting up there in both age and weight) looked at her owner like he was nuts.
After several minutes of refusals, he picked her up and tossed her into the stream. Once wet, she paddled across and picked up the grouse. Then, while looking at the entire group, she proceeded to eat the bird before coming back to her owner.
He didn't seem to appreciate my laughter as much as I appreciated his story.