I have Coon/Possum dogs! Amarillo and BOO are continually working the woods at night. Searching for then finding and treeing a Coon or Possum.
Once treed they bark on the tree expecting me to come and take care of their prisoner! Really girls it is dark, the woods are filled with all sorts of biting beings…from snakes to bees!
Tonight about 11:00 PM… I went outside to put the dogs up …Way off in the distance I could hear my girls barking. I called and they did not come… I jumped in my car and went to my neighbors (where I knew they were by the sound of their voices) Turned the car off and sure enough about 100 feet up the holler there they were with something treed! I told them to go home and leave it! (and I meant it!) Stopped in at my neighbors and explained my self…This being an uneventful place…of course the neighbor had to come out and listen and see what was going on…
I went back down the driveway to the spot where the girls had been…but they were gone! Zip!
As I came back up my driveway… here they came down the mountain from behind the barn in a rush. (Listen I was a teenager I KNOW this trick I invented it!) They were like… what where you been? we have been up here all the time oh NO that was NOT US back up the holler! Yeah Right!
The main thing is they are home and safe !
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I can relate. Annie was out from 4:30pm till 1:30am. the other night. Heard yipping in the distance coming through the bedroom window. Got up, dressed, and grabbed a flashlight and started hiking up the mountain behind the house. Annie has NO recall when she is hunting. I saw her black shape farther up the path darting back and forth, called her, to no avail. Felt ok knowing she was not far and on our property. Went back to bed. About a half hr. later she was barking to come in. Makes me worry so much but it is a great quality of life for her. She would rather be out exploring almost all the time as opposed to Stryder and Cooper, who would rather be with us. Last night our kitten charged through the cat door with something dead and unrecognizable. Upon closer inspection, we identified it to be a bunny head because of one intact ear. I bet Annie killed it and Boo found it and brought it home as a prize. Annie doesn’t tree things but she chases deer, digs up moles and mice, shakes them once, breaking their necks and moves on. So you find deceased animals that are intact such as a squirrel just lying randomly scattered around the yard.