Eva (Lilo and Rocky)'s Blog – May 2010 Archive (4)

A friend of mine called and said her kitten had gone missing. I offered to bring Lilo over to see if she could track down the cat - after all her training, here was finally a worthy and real life mission (her 2nd only - the first one involved tracking a missing person on our mountain, which led to nothing). We arrived at my friend's house and I put Lilo's tracking harness on. She sniffed some cat toys and went straight to work. Out the door, down the street, across a neighbor's yard, back and… Continue

After my Mom made me wear this horrible orange collar that delivers "stimulation," I can no longer chase deer. I am really bummed because I love chasing deer. Almost caught one once and my Mom wasn't even happy!! Would have tasted so good on the bbq. At least I can still chase mice and squirrels and other critters in the yard. Killed a fat rabbit this morning. But no more deer :( This is a sad time for me.

Lilo.

PS! Note from Mom: YEA! NO MORE DEER HUNTING

My son Mark turned 12 last Saturday. Of course he got several presents, we fussed over him all day, and he had some friends over. I admit to ignoring Lilo and Rocky slightly because of his party... just around dusk, the dogs went outside as usual to make their evening rounds around our property. They did stay out for quite a while, but I didn't think much of it. When they finally came in, Lilo walked over to Mark and dropped a dead mole rat on the floor in front of him as if to say: Happy… Continue

I have resorted to the last option for stopping the dogs' bad habit of chasing deer: a shock collar. I bought a sportsdog 1850 collar that comes with a beeper attachment. I've never wanted to use shock collars and I only agreed to try this out because nothing else works and Temple Grandin says it's ok. I am scared my dogs will get hurt or lost when chasing deer and other critters (including bears and cougars) on our mountain. Their prey drives have gotten so strong that they just can't help…

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