Hey, 6mm06, I have been reading this thread for a couple of weeks, and thought I had missed out on replying.
I had a fiest squirrel dog when I was a kid, and she was a good one, or at least I was mighty proud of her. When she was young, she caught several squirrels when they hit the ground running.
A friend of mine had a dog that the old-timers called a "Ring-necked Shepherd" that had a trick that I've never seen since.
When "Shep" treed a squirrel and we got to the tree to look for it, he would circle the tree and stay on the opposite side of the tree from us. After a few minutes of looking, if we didn't shoot the squirrel, Shep would jump about 4 feet high, grab a bush or grapevine in his teeth, and give it a good shake, trying to turn the squirrel.
I suppose Shep had picked up that trick from watching hunters do it. He is the only dog I've ever heard of that did this.
I had a fiest squirrel dog when I was a kid, and she was a good one, or at least I was mighty proud of her. When she was young, she caught several squirrels when they hit the ground running.
A friend of mine had a dog that the old-timers called a "Ring-necked Shepherd" that had a trick that I've never seen since.
When "Shep" treed a squirrel and we got to the tree to look for it, he would circle the tree and stay on the opposite side of the tree from us. After a few minutes of looking, if we didn't shoot the squirrel, Shep would jump about 4 feet high, grab a bush or grapevine in his teeth, and give it a good shake, trying to turn the squirrel.
I suppose Shep had picked up that trick from watching hunters do it. He is the only dog I've ever heard of that did this.