[AT] [JDAT] Slightly OT: horse drawn implements

[charlie hill]

Dogs do some strange things.  I know you have all seen a dog on a cartoon 
chase a rabbit round and round a stump while the rabbit is sitting there 
watching him.  How many have seen it actually happen in real life?

I had a half breed English pointer bird dog 30 or so years ago.  He got run 
over when he was a pup and had to have his hip ball removed on one hip.  I 
never hunted him.  He just became my buddy but he still wanted to hunt.  I'd 
take him to ride in the back of the truck and as we went through the field 
he'd pick up a scent and start yelping and squeeling.  I'd stop and he'd 
jump out, usally over the side of the bed and be off chasing whatever.  One 
day I was in the back end of the farm and he smelled what turned out to be a 
rabbit.  I stopped right beside a place where the woods just out in the 
field in a corner.  There was an old stump that had been rolled upside down 
right in the edge of the field about 10 feet from the door of my pickup.

Jack was haveing a good ole time chasing that rabbit all through the woods 
and then I heard him coming back my way.  All of a sudden out of the woods 
pops the rabbit.  He circled around that stump with Jack in hot pursuit. 
The rabbit made too laps around the stump and when he came around the third 
time, much to my amazement, he ducked in between two big roots comming off 
the stump and stood there on his hind legs and looked straight at me like I 
was in on the gag.  Jack made another lap around and past him again and then 
took off back in the woods to retrace the track.  The rabbit and I got a 
good laugh out of it and Jack was never the wiser.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at pionet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] [JDAT] Slightly OT: horse drawn implements


> He sure was.  Both the owner and myself stood there watching him and
> wondering when he would notice and turn around.  He finished the round.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
>
> charlie hill wrote:
>> The old collie was concentrating on his work wasn't he?
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at pionet.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 4:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] [JDAT] Slightly OT: horse drawn implements
>>
>>
>>> At one time I drove a tankwagon.  Delivering gasoline to a customer that
>>> was plowing with his JD 50.  He had a white collie that followed in the
>>> furrow all day long.  He pulled out of the land to get to the fuel truck
>>> and the dog didn't notice and made another round on his own.  True
>>> story.  I saw it.
>>>
>>> Ron Cook
>>> Salix, IA
>>>
>>> Gene Dotson wrote:
>>>>     Charlie;
>>>>     A dog I used to have would follow in the furrow the same way. When 
>>>> I
>>>> would make a stop, he would walk right into the tailwheel. He did get a
>>>> lot
>>>> of mice that way, and ocasionally a mole.
>>>>     Have had hawks watching from the trees and would sometimes be a 
>>>> race
>>>> between the dog and hawk to get the mouse first.
>>>>
>>>>                     Gene
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
>>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 8:53 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] [JDAT] Slightly OT: horse drawn implements
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> That third video brings back memories.  Not of horse drawn equipment 
>>>>> but
>>>>> of
>>>>> plowing with 2 14's behind our AC D10 with my dog running in the 
>>>>> furrow.
>>>>> He
>>>>> would trot in that furrow all day long, from sun up to sun down.  The
>>>>> only
>>>>> time he left the furrow was to chase a field mouse that the plow
>>>>> disturbed
>>>>> or to occasionally lay down for a quick rest.  If he did take a rest I
>>>>> wouldn't get over 100 yards away before he came running full speed to
>>>>> get
>>>>> back in place in the furrow.   I don't think he payed the tractor or
>>>>> plow
>>>>> any mind if Daddy was running it but if I was in the seat he was right
>>>>> there
>>>>> behind me.  You can't beat a good dog for loyalty.
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