I used to laugh at the squirrels in my backyard. Try as they might, they could never get my dog to chase them. They’d chatter away at him, leap from tree to tree above him, sit on the porch rail waving their bushy tails and chirruping, in an futile effort to get his attention.
He rarely showed the slightest interest and almost never reacted to their incessant noise
Of course, the fact that he was born deaf, might have had something to do with it !
I had a golden once that loved to chase squirrels. One day a newbie (it had to have been new to the neighborhood). Dog chased squirrel, squirrel runs toward “hole” at base of oak tree, dog dead in squirrel’s backside, “hole” is not a hole, squirrel bashes head on solid tree, squirrel rolls over in what I thought was an unconscience state, dog sniffs and walks away. I waited for squirrel to recover ( my momma never raised such a fool as to pick up a living squirrel). I checked on squirrel an hour later, expecting to find him gone. He was stiffer than a board.
I guess I have lived on Ballard St longer than I knew.
It takes a while for dogs to learn that the squirrel is not just behind the tree, but has gone up. So to get one like this who is just jerking the dog around – yeah, he is a veteran.
oldpine52 over 7 years ago
He’s got a mind like a steel trap, that’s why they call him Rusty.
Farside99 over 7 years ago
He’s a real David Coppersquirrel.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 7 years ago
That squirrel enlisted in the Rusty Wars when he was no bigger than a…
a…. something small …. I’m really no good at this size comparison stuff, you know.
Let’s say, no bigger than …um… a stick of butter?
C’mon, I told you I was no good at it!
Anyway, by now he doesn’t run up the tree right away cos the giant barking fur-thing can’t climb it…..
more fun to circle a few times and get it to tangle itself up with the huge hairless noisy thing….
and then run away.
Linguist over 7 years ago
I used to laugh at the squirrels in my backyard. Try as they might, they could never get my dog to chase them. They’d chatter away at him, leap from tree to tree above him, sit on the porch rail waving their bushy tails and chirruping, in an futile effort to get his attention.
He rarely showed the slightest interest and almost never reacted to their incessant noise
Of course, the fact that he was born deaf, might have had something to do with it !
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 7 years ago
Sweetheart dosen’t chase squirrels.
Silly thing wants to chase birds.
whiteheron over 7 years ago
I had a golden once that loved to chase squirrels. One day a newbie (it had to have been new to the neighborhood). Dog chased squirrel, squirrel runs toward “hole” at base of oak tree, dog dead in squirrel’s backside, “hole” is not a hole, squirrel bashes head on solid tree, squirrel rolls over in what I thought was an unconscience state, dog sniffs and walks away. I waited for squirrel to recover ( my momma never raised such a fool as to pick up a living squirrel). I checked on squirrel an hour later, expecting to find him gone. He was stiffer than a board.
I guess I have lived on Ballard St longer than I knew.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 7 years ago
Tuffy – the Early Years.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 7 years ago
Curses foiled again!
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 7 years ago
Our cats chased a squirrel….once….the squirrel chased them back. With teeth bared. Cats studiously ignored them from then on.
Vet Premium Member over 7 years ago
I had a chihuahua would do that.Squirrel right in front of her and she is staring at the branches!!XD
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 7 years ago
It takes a while for dogs to learn that the squirrel is not just behind the tree, but has gone up. So to get one like this who is just jerking the dog around – yeah, he is a veteran.