So, has your dog ever caught the squirrel?

[Beauty]

My Sadie-Marie has been in prime chasing mode the last few days. Spring has sprung so to say and there are squirrels all over our backyard. Our house backs up to woods and there are squirrels everywhere. I swear they KNOW how to tease that poor dog. They will come right down to her, just out of reach and tease her.

One of our trees has three branches that branch off leaving the root just high enough for her to jump up into it. She will stand in that tree and watch them.....

So DH and I were talking about it at lunch.....if she was to catch a squirrel I think the squirrel would probably get the best of her.

Oh shes a Lhaso Apso.

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

We have a lab mix and a lot of squirrels that just love to antagonize her. They come onto the covered porch and steal her food when she's on the other side of the yard.

She got one of them one day. It was ugly. The remaining squirrels don't mess with her so much now. I think they learned a lesson that day lol

 

[airhead]

rabbits,chipmunks,snakes,turtles and anything else he finds in "his" yard!

 

[shelbyjosh]

Our golden, Trapper, goes bonkers over those squirrels! He would chase then up the tree if he could. He has gotten a bird. Unfortunately, he is not a hunting dog.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

No squirrels, but rabbits torment my golden. He will chase them and they have a spot under our fence where they run into the neighbors yard. One day one rabbit missed the turn--and Ranger got it by the back fence. Ever hear a rabbit scream? It's positively ungodly. We happened to be outside and yelled at him so he dropped it and it hopped into the neighbors yard, where it promptly died.
Ever since then the rabbits have never missed the turn!
Robin M.

 

[Serena]

I think one time Maxie got the squirrel by accident. She had it in her mouth, and then dropped it. It did die, but we think probably from a heart attack. She just stood there and looked at us and looked at it, and had this weird look on her face, like did I do that?

She will lay like a lady, with paws crossed just watching them. They will come down the tree and cuss at her, and she'll just look at them. They'll get brave and come down a little farther and cuss some more, but immediately run back up. They play this game of chicken with her. She "ignores" them until they get brave and jump off the tree. Then she's on their tail and are lucky to get away. I think she lets them get away though.

 

[CBRorBust]

Nope but she has caught a bird before! THEN she brought into the house to kill it in front of me!

I was mortified! I'd love to find the thread I wrote the day It happened. But it was like 2 years ago, I don't think the search will find it that far back! I bet reading it now would be a good

 

[Beauty]

Sadie is weird, she leaves the birds alone. Right now there are three huge doves and a few cardinals out there and she isn't the least bit interested in them.....shes only after the squirrels.

 

[Serena]

Maxie doesn't go after the birds either. She will chase after them to get them out of the yard. She doesn't like birds in the yard.

 

[Prince Eric1]

My shephards love to chase squirrels, but unfortunately one day they caught one. I opened the back door and the old girl is standing there with the prize in her mouth (headless at that point) to show me. It was at dinner time and my wife was not amused.

 

[Loubon]

I once had a Golden that would chase squirrels all of the time. One day with a swat of her paw she got one. For a nano second that seemed to last about 10 minutes, they stared at each other in shock. During that split second where my dog was so stunned at finally being successful, the squirrel darted away.

It was funny beyond belief.

 

[gallaj0]

We have a lot of chipmunks around the yard, and my dog loves tracking them down to thier lairs, and will chase them if she sees one. She caught one once, it was too far from it's home, and unless you're a cheeta, you're not gonna outrun a greyhound .

 

[jipsy]

Over a year ago, I had to hand raise a baby squirrel.

Ollie usually chases them in the yard, but he was very gentle with Earl. When Earl got older, we would let him run loose in the house. He would hide between the refrigerator and the wall and come out and "tease" Ollie, then run back in. LOL. However, when it was time for Earl to go, we let him out in the woods, he scampered up a 40 foot pine tree and never looked back!

 

[Tinkerbelle739]

Our flat-coated retriever has caught many a chipmunk (Shhh, dont tell Chip and Dale)

Last summer he got to 2 baby cardinals from the same nest, we were devasted. We have several bird types that use our yard to nest and we love to see the parents show the babies the ropes. These 2 cardinals were learning to eat out in the open, after just learning to fly when our big 'ol dog comes and kills 2 of their babies. That cardinal couple later had another 2 babies in the same summer. The robins are out now, as are the blue jays and I will be keeping my fingers crossed that he does not catch any more baby birds.

Happy Spring!

*After posting I saw those adorable photos!!

 

[jlw29]

I have to laugh because Nala (our yellow lab) is currently barking her fool head off at one of the squirrels that loves to tease her. It comes up and sits on the flower box on the living room window while Nala goes nuts barking from the other side of the glass. THey also play chicken in the tree in the back yard with her as well. One big fat one will sit on the deck railing until she gets the door open (she figured out the screen door with her nose) then runs up the tree JUUSSSTTT out of Nala's reach. It provided me AND the squirrel amusement.

 

[Disney Doll]

No, but he's gotten close enough that he's had to pick squirrel fur out of his teeth!

 

[preshi]

It's baby squirrel season... Now and in August.

As a wildlife rehabber this kinda makes me sad.

Great pictures Jipsy

 

[buzzlady]

Our dog hasn't gotten a squirell yet. She has gotten an opossum this past Nov. It just layed there and played dead. She kept barking and barking at it, which is what made me go out and see what the problem was. She tried to play with it by pawing at it. I finally yelled enough to get her to come to me (I wasn't going to see what it was she had my neighbor went to see). She stunk and had blood on her. The opossum left when everything quieted down, but we did find it's remains under some brush after the the thaw this past winter. Of course I was home alone with the kids and DH was working.

 

[Beauty]

OMG what cute pictures. That is the sweetest thing! I just love animals. So you never saw Earl again Jipsy?

 

[catsrule]

No, but Simba sure gives it his best shot. He had one cornered in our old house once, when it got in through the attic. He almost got a bat, too.