ArbDogs? Pics!

[AHPP]

On 22/01/2025 at 21:07, AHPP said:

 

Just Sailor bringing joy to all he meets, with his comedy stick routine. 

 

 

 

[AHPP]

 

Beaters’ day so Sailor was standing around watching me shoot rather than tearing up woodland. Total twat, start to finish. This photo taken just after charging up to a set of picking-up labs like a pissed up blindside flanker wearing a motorbike helmet. I trod a massive tent peg in, put the lead over it and was sorting out my ear pro. Looked up and saw him at the end of his lead and still going. Couldn’t work out how. Snapped his collar. Bellend. 

Edited January 26 by AHPP

[AHPP]

Belting last day of the pheasant season. Gave Sailor a bit more freedom than I have before, dropping the lead to let him snake off on short raids. Couple of slow recalls but overall win. He did successfully lose me before lunch. I’d stopped him to untangle his feet and was playing with my hair or something. Hare came past and that was that.

A demonstration of how shit a hunter he is:

I passed the hare on my way to get him. 

He didn’t catch it but he did himself get caught by one of the guns. 
 

On the penultimate drive, he went looking for a bird when I told him to, found it, stayed and then picked it up on my urging. Trotted past an elder statesman of the syndicate with it on the way out, wings sticking everywhere and just generally looking endearingly graceless. Made his day I think. 
 

Didn’t take any photos. Archive footage appended. 
 

 

 

[AHPP]

Opportunity to (relatively safely) test him on sheep finally presented itself. He prefers sticks. 
 

[Rich Rule]

That shit didn’t work with Kira.  I had to take her on a Sheep Aversion course.

 

Basically a shock collar and every time she charged them she got zapped.  Took a couple of attempts but she finally got the memo.

 

 

[Rich Rule]

I took Kira up to the shooting ground the other day.  We leave carcasses out for the fox to pick at so they can be shot.

 

I had the spine, pelvis and ribs from a moose in the freezer taking space.  So I put it out for the fox.

 

Kira knabbed one of the ribs for a snack LOL.

 

[AHPP]

6 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

That shit didn’t work with Kira.  I had to take her on a Sheep Aversion course.

 

Basically a shock collar and every time she charged them she got zapped.  Took a couple of attempts but she finally got the memo.

 

 

Had planned on doing it gradually but he got in and chased them the other day so then and there it was. I caught him very quickly and bollocked him very firmly. He wouldn’t look at them for a couple of days, like when I march him into the kitchen and ask why my frying pan is squeaky clean. 

[Rich Rule]

21 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Had planned on doing it gradually but he got in and chased them the other day so then and there it was. I caught him very quickly and bollocked him very firmly. He wouldn’t look at them for a couple of days, like when I march him into the kitchen and ask why my frying pan is squeaky clean. 

I had an episode last summer.  She snapped her leash lunging at the sheep.  It went ping and she must have thought that was a green light.

 

Not a nice sight seeing your dog chasing a load of sheep over the second peak in the distance.

 

Suddenly they just came running back.  I don’t know if Kira was herding them or they hit the boundaries of their area and the geo collar must have buzzed on the sheep.  Sheep just roam free range in the mountains here.

 

Whatever the reason for them running back, I avoided 6-8 sheep and them managed to flatten the dog.  Had to pin her to the floor for about 5 minutes as she was possessed.  I almost ended up choking her out with her collar.

 

Not a very pleasant experience but better that than having the sheep harmed and the farmer shooting my dog.

 

Booked the sheep aversion course as soon as we got back.

[AHPP]

2 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

Not a nice sight seeing your dog chasing a load of sheep over the second peak in the distance.

Well at least I can laugh about it now. 

[AHPP]

 

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