Strange happenings

[Ranger J]

I have had a strange thing happen to me twice lately.  I have several dogs.  Our oldest dog is half blueheeler and half black lab.  She is 7 years old and about an ax handle wide.  We also have a runt pit with a case of hip displacia.  Because one is fat and the other has a hip problem I usually try to take both out for exercise as much as possible.  We have a regular rout of about a mile or so through a weed and small brush overgrown abounded farmstead.  I usually take the dogs one at a time and we usually make the circuit with no problems.  Two times lately this has not been the case.  The first time was when I had the fat old lab cross and when we got to this one overgrown gully the old lab stopped, bristled up, looked down into the brush and started growling deep down in her throat.  I don’t think I have ever seen her growl at anything.  I looked in the area but could see nothing.  I finally got her to clam down and we continued the walk with no more trouble.  Today I had the runt pit with me and as we approached that same place I looked back and she was about fifty feet behind me and showed every sign of being afraid and didn’t want to follow me across that place.  It was all I could do to finally get her to cross.  For the rest of the walk she acted nervous and was only happy when we left that field.  Again I saw nothing in that area.  It is beginning to weird me out and I think I will start carrying the 357 when I go down that way.  I don’t know what is in there but this is two different dogs on two different occasions that have not liked that spot.  We do have plenty of coyotes and an occasional bobcat in the area.
RJ

[brnchbrkr]

I tend to trust the dog.

I watch them to get a clue on surroundings or hunting.

My bets on the dogs nose.

[victorcharlie]

Not being smart, but you have a fat dog because you feed it to much......

[Don Fischer]

I tend to trust the dog.

I watch them to get a clue on surroundings or hunting.

My bets on the dogs nose.

Nice looking photo of the dog!! I'd agree with both you and Victor Charlie. Almost bet the fat dogs been fixed and the food intake was never adjusted.

[Ranger J]

She and I share the same problem, the excess food intake, not the fixed part.   That was why we were in that field, we were trying to get some exercise.  That was not the point of the posting.  The point was that on two occasions, two different dogs acted as if there was something threatening at that same point and when I checked it out I could find nothing to justify this.  I read a story one time about the things that dogs could see that humans couldn’t.  I think they were called ‘cobbies’ or something like that.  I trust the dogs enough that the next time I go past that place I will take the entire pack (4) and my .357 and see what happens.
RJ

[oso45-70]

Ranger J

Could it be that there might be a Rattle snake den that the dogs are buggered by. As it has goten colder the snakes have gone to den. Just an idea.........Joe..........

[Ranger J]

We don't have many rattlers around here but we do have a parcel of copperheads and the fat dog hates them as she was bitten when she was a pup and has never forgotten about it.  She will always let us know when there is one in the back yard.  As she is the oldest dog we have she has passed this dislike along to all the younger dogs.
RJ