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Badger:
   I used to run field trials with my bird dogs and had one particular dog that was my favorite of all time but crazy as hell. He was an English setter named moose. A big running open all age dog who knew the difference between hunting birds and field trials. This dog had a habit of chasing airplanes. I live 10 miles from LAX in los angeles and everytime he got out I would get a call from the airport later that day. One time I was driving down the free way toward the airpot and saw him running down the side of the freeway toward the airpot at full speed ahead, I pulled over and he jumped right in the car. Another time I lost him in the desert and two weeks later he wound up at Edwards air force base over 120 miles from where I lost him, This stupid dog probably spent well over a year out of his 14 years running wild as I lost him at least 25 times over the years usually took about 2 weeks to get him back. He could dispatch a coyote in a fair fight without much problem. Never chased a rabbit, or fought another dog, just chased birds and airplanes. At 14 he finaly ran off for the last time and I never saw him again. I still miss that dumb mutt. Steve

DCM4:
We had Irish setters, and a Lewellan (sp), back before inbreeding ruined the breed and before they became show dogs instead of hunting dogs.  Loved to chase birds, would hold a point well but when they flushed the dogs (two bitches, Penelopy and Prisilla aka Penny and Prissy) would as likely catch a bird as have one downed by a shooter.  Penny got traded off and Prissy became our house dawg for about ever.  Was a great momma dog.  Would adopt stray kittens and stuff (in the country).  Found her one morning with a baby rabbit curled up on top of her.  The lewellian was a big headed male.  Chicken killin' sob eventually got run over, or killed by a neighbor.  Ran off an never came home, but we'd had him a good while, a decade at least.  Prissy threw a litter from a wandering dalmation, one male pup we kept was 100% dalmation and the smartest dawg I ever owned.  Uncle always had dem old skinny arse raw boned pointers, but they were serious as a heart attack about hunting and real well trained.

Badger:
Dave, I used to buy my setter from a man in Hathachubee Alabama. They were built and acted more like your uncles pointers. Interesting thing was though that he loved my chickens, hung out in the pen with them all the time and never bothered them. I used to raise quail also but the dog thought they were pets so never would hunt them. Smart dog, would only hunt wild game. At the field trial here in ca they would usually release pen raised birds and he had no interest in them. He would run as far as he had to to find the wild ones. Often that was too far to stay in the judging and was usually disqualified for running off. Steve

El Destructo:
We raise and compete with our Basenji's.....they are some of the smartest Dogs I have ever had the Privilege of raising....last Summer I took my 14 year old Female with Me to work on my Rent House....when I let Her out of the Car.....She took off at a full run....at first I could not see what She was after.....then I did....a a Cottontail was running for it's Life for the Chainlink Fence..... well about three foot from safety...She nailed It..... It was like She was a Puppy again.....I couldn't believe that a deaf...cataract blind 14 year old could still move like that...zig-zagging with every move the Rabbit made.....We lost Her that Fall.....She had just turned 15....She had a long and good Life....

aero86:
i bet she slept like 4 days after getting that rabbit!

we have a dachshund mix.  first, she ingests rat poison, almost dies.  then 2 weeks later, gets hit by a dually, crushes her back leg.  6 weeks later, she runs around like nothing happen.   2 weeks ago, she goes chasing something in the middle of the night, comes back with a hole in her lip, a hole in her tongue, and she had to have 3 teeth pulled.  shes definitely part cat.

now my rescue dachshund.  doesnt do much, just lays around, but he has fattened up.

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