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What a day, Amy and Dad got ready to go for a truck ride, before noon.
To do some drywall mudding, on a relocated kitchen wall - making the living room bigger (on our retirement home, in the country).
a) She is hanging around my 4x4 pickup, knowing a short drive out of the city limits, was coming...and Amy does NOT like to be left behind.
Just as I am planning our day, a squirrel run across the front long...and AMY heads off in chase.
Seeing this, I call her off in a split second...and she comes back to me.
- I explain, the squirrel is one of her babies from the animal kindom...we don't chase friends
- her ears went down and she listened to me
FYI - I have successfully hand feed a few wild squirrels and 1 chipmunk...peanuts during the summer months & Amy has been gentle around the wildlife.
So she had an uncontrolled brain-fart today...lol...and her canine drive kicked in / seeing a critter, she hasn't seen for a long while.
b) Now just before supper time, I let Amy out for a pee-pee.
This time TOTALLY different, ALL hackles up...BIG-TIME.
She ran in ninja mode, squeezing between my SUV parked close to a chain link fence, tried to get under the vehicle, next...run around the house, etc.
Seeing this new AMY has my interest up, and it turns out to be a "cat" on our property.
To escape Amy, the cat went up our maple tree (on the front lawn) about 15 ft.
She got the cats scent and was smelling the base of the 65 years old tree.
- I was so proud of her, maybe we missed our "tracking" calling...He-He.
I tried my darndess to get Amy to look up in the rain (for a few minutes), to see the cat and further praise my old girl.
It would of been the icing on the cake / if only Amy realized fully, her accomplishment.
- as the cat was still on our property, but safely up in the air / overhead of her watchful dober eyes
Had see looked up and seen her kitty prize, Dad could of played up more love & praise with our 11 y/o good girl, even more.
P.S. - so how does one teach a dog to look up, into a tree, when their eyes are focused on the ground level...searching ??
- I couldn't figure this out, to help Amy get more excited
To do some drywall mudding, on a relocated kitchen wall - making the living room bigger (on our retirement home, in the country).
a) She is hanging around my 4x4 pickup, knowing a short drive out of the city limits, was coming...and Amy does NOT like to be left behind.
Just as I am planning our day, a squirrel run across the front long...and AMY heads off in chase.
Seeing this, I call her off in a split second...and she comes back to me.
- I explain, the squirrel is one of her babies from the animal kindom...we don't chase friends
- her ears went down and she listened to me
FYI - I have successfully hand feed a few wild squirrels and 1 chipmunk...peanuts during the summer months & Amy has been gentle around the wildlife.
So she had an uncontrolled brain-fart today...lol...and her canine drive kicked in / seeing a critter, she hasn't seen for a long while.
b) Now just before supper time, I let Amy out for a pee-pee.
This time TOTALLY different, ALL hackles up...BIG-TIME.
She ran in ninja mode, squeezing between my SUV parked close to a chain link fence, tried to get under the vehicle, next...run around the house, etc.
Seeing this new AMY has my interest up, and it turns out to be a "cat" on our property.
To escape Amy, the cat went up our maple tree (on the front lawn) about 15 ft.
She got the cats scent and was smelling the base of the 65 years old tree.
- I was so proud of her, maybe we missed our "tracking" calling...He-He.
I tried my darndess to get Amy to look up in the rain (for a few minutes), to see the cat and further praise my old girl.
It would of been the icing on the cake / if only Amy realized fully, her accomplishment.
- as the cat was still on our property, but safely up in the air / overhead of her watchful dober eyes
Had see looked up and seen her kitty prize, Dad could of played up more love & praise with our 11 y/o good girl, even more.
P.S. - so how does one teach a dog to look up, into a tree, when their eyes are focused on the ground level...searching ??
- I couldn't figure this out, to help Amy get more excited