Fun Sunday night story -- so, now that we have a massive FENCED IN yard, the bf has gotten into the habit of simply letting our housedog out to roam as she pleases and leaves the backdoor open for her to come back on her own. It had been a good twenty minutes or so, and I decided she'd been out long enough (letting any of the dogs out without keeping a strict eye on them ALWAYS makes me a bit uncomfortable), so I step out onto our back patio to call her in and almost get immediately RUN OVER by a huge white tail deer -- it veered at the last second and jumped over a table the bf had under there for cutting boards for houses, with my housedog running up under the table to keep up -- as soon as it landed, she was on it again. She stayed with the deer, getting various holds on it until it cleared the fence on the other side of the yard, she never did get a leg to take it down, but she took a GOOD few chunks out of it. She's 40# soaking wet, and will be EIGHT YEARS OLD next week. She acts all geriatric in the house and moves like molasses in wintertime, UNTIL you take her outside and she finds something to hunt. I was SO impressed and proud of her -- she's lived her entire life on the couch and has never come into contact with anything like a deer, and at her first sighting, she almost took it down on her own!! Such a good ole' girl



That's her a couple of weeks back, dragging downed trees around the yard -- she'd found a chipmunk nest in there. She quickly cleared them all out.



Her back in December, hunting squirrels. Those bushes are VERY dense, so that's about four feet of air she got there. She's never been formally worked in her life, and has a congenital heart defect, and she's still one of the most NATURALLY FIT dogs I've ever seen.