Big dog is STILL a disgrace!

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Bit of a stressful walk, a stuffy came up to the youngsters, who objected. Owner and dog a bit poor at recall, it's hard to hold 2 x 25kg oversize springers.

Big dog then disappeared for ten minutes, only to return with the biggest pigeon I've ever seen, pristine, no damage. He came galloping across the field in a beautiful retrieve, wish I'd recorded it. Staffie owner came out of the woods right next to us, big dog refused to come near me, youngsters were not happy to see the Staffie, big dog dropped the pigeon, werewolf picked it up, gave it to his brother! The poor Staffie owner must have been horrified! Hope she's not there tomorrow :eek3:
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Bless him, he's tired now.
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I have never quite got past the time my angelic baby springer appeared with a dead squirrel and refused to drop it. I taught her to retrieve to hand not to drop but I didn't want to get my hands and a dead and possibly rotting squirrel.
So my other dogs came to check it out, nicked it off her and attempted a game of tug of war with it!
 
Haha the little monster! Good job they're cute, that's the only reason we forgive them...

I'll never forget the time that mine found a dead squirrel - wouldn't drop it, wouldn't come anywhere near me, eventually swallowed it practically whole... and promptly vomited it up again as soon as we got inside my mum's house. She was suitably disgusted. It stank as well :(
 
Many years ago, Brig found a rabbit. His brother and he decided to play tug of war with it. I was horrified, took it off them and carefully placed it under a tree. I wish I'd had the guts to despatch it properly :( Some years later, Bear retrieved a baby rabbit. I despatched it properly, put it down, Brig promptly ate it. He's horrible :biggrin3:
 
Ew dogs :( One of mine found half a squirrel (I'm assuming the cat did for it in the first place) and I had a heck of a time getting it off him - only to find it was just the poor squirrel's head and forearms, and the look on his face reminded me of that moment in Jaws where Robert thingummy is in the shark's gob ....
 
I seem to spend half my life handing dead squirrels - Rufus has a passion for them unfortunately. We play out this game whereby I take it off him and drape the poor thing over a tree branch.

Said squirrel somehow manages to drop to the floor again, Rufus finds it and we repeat the process until I get fed up and eventually collect the squirrel in a poo bag and deposit it in the nearest poo bin. I chucked one into thick undergrowth just a couple of days ago but he can hunt them down.

Would have made a good drugs dog that boy. Shame he doesn't really like people that much ha ha.
 
I ended up throwing a dead bunny into the Wye and heeling the dogs until the current took it away, as they had retrieved it several times from the undergrowth, a hedge and the river! It was my father-in-law's dogs, one of whom brought a duck from someone's pond along there one day. Shameful.
 
My (late, great) JRs were like chalk and cheese - one was a lean, mean hunting machine who was invited places for vermin control, she could clear entire barns of rodents in an afternoon and the other was a soft, cuddly wimp who preferred to be carried everywhere. The hunter used to get a rabbit most days while the other was actually a bit scared of them as they were bigger than her. (TBF she was scared of most things)

We were up the fields checking horses one morning and a rabbit broke and ran straight into wimpy dogs mouth with the other in hot pursuit. WD was just mouthing it - I don't allow that, clean kills are important! - and since it was obviously mixxy I pulled her off and called the other dog in. Job done but then I hear a gasp behind me and there is a woman with 2 small boys looking at me in horror... a terrier doing her victory dance with a dead rabbit who then proceeds to start on her elevenses, just to add insult to injury.

In my defense, this was private property with no footpaths and I really didn't expect randoms with or without kids to witness this so I apologised as the kids were obviously upset but the mother went absolutely berserk, screaming and shouting that I was a murderer, had ruined her kids childhood, that she was going to report me and so on. In the middle of this the big dog comes crashing back to see whats going on and that set her off again about dangerous wild dogs who were going to savage her family. Eventually I walked away after telling her that the trauma could have been avoided if she hadn't trespassed.

All done or so I thought :) She'd taken a photo of the JR trotting behind me with the remnants of her rabbit and plastered it all over the local FB places. That caused a bit of a stir for a while :)
 
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