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    Great hunters

    So I get home and let the pups out. Mocha and Latte run out and TT and turn and look at me. I'm supposed to throw something. I grabbed Mocha's football and kicked it toward the creek. Both ran for the football. Standing where the white arrow is was a deer. It saw the dogs and raised the white tail and ran into woods. Neither of my hunters saw the deer. They ran straight toward the blue jolly ball.
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    Around here... I worry about jack-rabbits. My dog has a GREAT recall... except for jack rabbits. Ugh. Today she busted one, but she didn't see it (lucky for me.) Then she caught the scent and freaked out knowing she'd missed him.

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    A jackrabbit ran out in front of us today, and when I tried to point him out to Thor, thor ran in the opposite direction. He is not smart.


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    lol the ball is more fun!

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    LOL, well, the ball is catchable, the deer are not.

    But seriously, you don't want them to chase deer do you? OH no longer hunts but we work Oban on birds, grouse, so he won't chase deer. If we are out on a walk and he chases deer no telling how far he might get away or if he'd come home alive.
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    We are not hunters. We have about 3 acres invisible fenced. A few times Mocha has chased a deer he gives up after the deer gets so far ahead. Last summer a deer came up to the fence line and Mocha dropped into a play bough. The deer kind of responded by bouncing around and looked like it was playing too! The deer trotted off with Mocha in full pursuit but he didn't get close!

    [QUOTE=Snowshoe;150368]LOL, well, the ball is catchable, the deer are not.

    But seriously, you don't want them to chase deer do you? OH no longer hunts but we work Oban on birds, grouse, so he won't chase deer. If we are out on a walk and he chases deer no telling how far he might get away or if he'd come home alive.[/QUO
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    We don't let the dogs chase deer as it is illegal at certain times of the year. We have snowshoe rabbit around a pile of the left over beams and poles from the old barn we had to take down. The dogs have been hanging around it all winter. Little Miss M spotted a rabbit and decided to follow it down the "rabbit hole". Result was over an hour of trying to move frozen beams and then the chain saw to get her out of the wood pile. Was easy to get in but not so easy to get out. Lucky my husband was cutting wood and heard her whimpering.

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    Mine don’t really chase deer - they might run at them to start them moving, but they don’t follow them. Squirrels, rabbits, birds and other small game they do go after, especially in their yard.
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