Dog picked up a scent today and...

[AdiT]

So, out with the dogs today at lunchtime. Same walk as every lunch when suddenly Casper (my Weim) picks up a scent. Not unusual but this was with the sort of attention that usually means fox. Forces his way into a thicket an eventually emerges from the other side carrying a 5lbs side of bacon !

Now my immediate thought was why the feck is that in there. Given the local hen pens and number of foxes around, I was a bit worried it was laced with something so took it off him before he scoffed any. Reality is it's also on the "leg it" route for the local scrotes thieving from the shops so probably came out of the butchers and then got dumped.

He wasn't for giving it up though Not showing any ill effects other than he's still sulking.

[babelfish]

It's amazing isn't it. My friends Golden Retriever found a joint of beef in the middle of no where recently. My Lab found a steak in a pack in the under growth beside a river the other month.

[Z4monster]

Out walking my two this week and found 6 or 7 pheasant at the side of the road. Some local scrote had obviously been poaching and then dumped them before they got caught.

I've nothing really against killing stuff to eat but hate to see animals killed and then left to rot. Such a waste.

[CAPP0]

There have been several reports around here (Kent) recently with dogs being poisoned, usually fatally. Latest one I remember was Boxing Day. I have to imagine that dropping something nice and smelly, like bacon, would be an easy way to attract dogs, esp if it's hidden out of sight - some dogs would have scoffed that before they came back to you.

Hope he's OK.

[Mezzanine]

CAPP0 said:

There have been several reports around here (Kent) recently with dogs being poisoned, usually fatally. Latest one I remember was Boxing Day. I have to imagine that dropping something nice and smelly, like bacon, would be an easy way to attract dogs, esp if it's hidden out of sight - some dogs would have scoffed that before they came back to you.

Hope he's OK.

Happens quite a bit I think, we heard of a few cases locally last year too.

Usually people trying to get rid of foxes and badgers I would imagine, but they end up killing people's beloved pets instead.

[Autopilot]

We used our Dobermann in Schutzhund (Protection / Agility & Obedience / Tracking). When you train a dog to track, it's amazing what they can do. You start off making the tracks easy (using smelly food to help the dog understand the sweeping motion they require to be able to follow the track when it changes direction) but then progress on to the dog following the scent cloud created from the grass when it's walked over.

Even though I've actually done tracking work with dogs, it never ceases to amaze me what they can find when out and about.