I grew up around moles, and there's actually a Friesian breed (stabyhoun, or Friese Stabij), that is a mole catcher by tradition. Don't know which one tears up the lawn more, unfortunately. Once they figure it out, dogs can be pretty effective.
My dog performed very much like that on gophers in Utah, ain’t too many gophers where I’m at so I didn’t suspect he had that ability, tho he’s death on small rodents in general.
Neat birdsong in that video 😎 That’s an Eurasia blackbird singing, a thrush the size of our American Robin, lives in the same situations but arguably a better singer.
That would be a “merel”, and yes, it’s song is much admired.
This one was hell on gophers. Must have hated the dang things, or just loved catching them.
Had her with us on a camping trip in AZ at 7000'+. Very large, as in bigger than a pickup size, boulder 50 yards from camp. Whenever we couldn't find her we knew where she was, digging gophers out from under the rock. I believe she caught near to 15 of them that weekend.
Moved into another place, gophers in the fenced in yard. Within a few days, no more gophers.
And yeah, she's missed here. We're getting a bit of a gopher issue around here, invaders from the BLM land. She didn't need leashed like the whippets, she'd listen and come. I'd turn her loose out behind the house and let her have some fun.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Great looking dog, Valsdad. Labs can get motivated..
Yeah, where I lived up in E WA while working a neighbor had a lab that worked over everyone's yard for voles. Loved the snow so he'd stay cool while working. Summers he's just go down and jump in the Snake.
OH, if that were our yard, your dog would be down at hardpan level already!
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The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Our backyard doesn't drain very well and the moles love it, my dogs will sit and bark at a spot on the ground, I swear they can hear them. I have holes all over the yard where they go after them and they are usually successful.
My lab would catch moles/voles? in the early winter and have them laying by the entrance to the garage door to show us what a good girl she had been all day. She would stop and listen to them under the snow and pounce like a fox and come up with one.
Twice, in the summer time, I witnessed her lay by striped gopher holes in the yard and listen for them. When they popped up she grabbed them by the head.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
My lab would catch moles/voles? in the early winter and have them laying by the entrance to the garage door to show us what a good girl she had been all day. She would stop and listen to them under the snow and pounce like a fox and come up with one.
Twice, in the summer time, I witnessed her lay by striped gopher holes in the yard and listen for them. When they popped up she grabbed them by the head.
That's a wonderful dog.
The horrible dogs eat the voles instead of leaving them lay.
Generally right before it gets 100 above and you can't let them out of the swather anymore.
My lab would catch moles/voles? in the early winter and have them laying by the entrance to the garage door to show us what a good girl she had been all day. She would stop and listen to them under the snow and pounce like a fox and come up with one.
Twice, in the summer time, I witnessed her lay by striped gopher holes in the yard and listen for them. When they popped up she grabbed them by the head.
That's a wonderful dog.
The horrible dogs eat the voles instead of leaving them lay.
Generally right before it gets 100 above and you can't let them out of the swather anymore.
hahaha
I've seen cats that do not want anything to do with eating them.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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