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O.T. Dog climbing a Tree

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JOHN HARMON

08-30-2006 12:17:00




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I usually begin my day with a long walk with my 10 year old Yellow lab "Taffy". We meander thru Town [such as it is] and end up out in the Desert on BLM Land. The neighbor has a 1 year old Pit Bull named Butch. Now Butch is about as dumb a Pup as most Pups are but we are hoping he gets smart soon. Butch accompanies us on our walk and does his best to interest Taffy in Puppie Play but she mostly ignores him so when he tires of Taffys indifference he does his own thing. Now we do not have much in the way of trees, a lot of Palo Verdes and Mesquites and a few Ironwoods.Lately when I look around for Butch I will find him Squatted in front of one or the other of these Trees and several times I catch him squatted in front of a Saguaro Cactus which resembles a tree. He is intently studying these trees and yesterday he tried to climb an old Ironwood and this morning he did climb up to the bottom branch and sat there looking around as if to say 'Look at me". Now in ILL we had tall trees and I never in my life saw a dog climb a tree. Some of my Coon Hounds on the hunt tried it but didn't get very far. Does any one else have a tree climbing dog or is Butch an exceptional talented Puppie?

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Jon Hagen

08-30-2006 19:08:44




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 Re: O.T. Dog climbing a Tree in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-30-2006 12:17:00  
What ever happened to world famous Flatnose,the tree climbing dog ? He made the national news a few times several years ago. He could get as high as the lower branches just clamping his legs around the tree and inching himself up. looked like 12 ft or more :)



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J.T.L.

08-30-2006 15:13:58




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 Re: O.T. Dog climbing a Tree in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-30-2006 12:17:00  
My dad had a dog that weighed about 70 pounds back in 1930. Pop raised homing pigions and had a coop built up between some trees. The floor was 12 feet off the ground. He used a ladder to get up to the coop and feed the birds. His dog would get a bit of a running start and go up that ladder non stop just like a cat and wait for him to come up with the feed. I saw this on pops home movies many years later. The dog thought nothing of going back down the ladder head first either. --- The dog (Lance) was well trained also. Once in the early morning, dad was playing football with some of his friends down in a distant meadow. Lance was there and was told to sit and stay. Dad and his friends played ball for a while and then left for lunch and forgot the dog was there. After dinner that evening, dad was asked where Lance was. Dad then recalled leaving lance in the medow. With flashlights they found the dog still sitting on the same spot he had been left in. He never moved or even layed down.

John

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Matt from CT

08-30-2006 14:06:19




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 Re: O.T. Dog climbing a Tree in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-30-2006 12:17:00  
Pits and Dals are two of the most notorious climbers...at least for chain link.

I had a stray pit I brought home one night -- I was out looking for two of mine, I pull into the school and see the Pit walking, I open the pickup door to see if she has any tags -- leaps over my lap, sits in the passenger seat, and looks at me, "Let's go!"

Left a message with the Dog Warden, put her in my kennel. Out as soon as I turned my back...

Put her in a plastic sided crate. She chewed through the side first time I left the house.

Called the Dog Warden, Doug picked her and brought her to the Town Pound. Pound is in good shape, concrete floors, etc, 12' fence surrounds the whole thing.

Before he gets to the pound the next day for the morning feed, he gets a call someone who had Pits had picked her 3 miles away -- and they kept her as they had a kennel specifically built to hold them.

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'Nother time Doug adopts a female Dalmatian from the his pound. They raised Labs at home, so they have nice kennels, chain link, etc.

Everyday gets a call that the Dal is loose in the neighborhood...not good for the regional Animal Control Lieutenant ;)

They setup a video camera...soon as no one was home, she'd just scamper up the chainlink without a second thought and escape.

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Janicholson

08-30-2006 14:01:22




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 Re: O.T. Dog climbing a Tree in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-30-2006 12:17:00  
We had a Border collie named Molly that liked trees. She climed a cottonwood hanging over a creek in AZ (about 50 feet of climing on the bent over tree) then she was too far up to jump, and had to be coaxed back to the roots to get down. Funny business. JimN



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Yep

08-30-2006 13:33:34




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 Re: O.T. Dog climbing a Tree in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-30-2006 12:17:00  
Neighbor had him on a chain tied to a tree. Climbed up about 6-7 foot to a limb and jumped off the other side. Chain was only 10 foot long. Found him when he got home.

One of many reasons I hate to see a dog on the end of a chain..... .



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oldfarmtractor

08-30-2006 13:07:09




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 Re: O.T. Dog climbing a Tree in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-30-2006 12:17:00  
We had a mutt that loved to climb up a leaning Box Elder. He could get up to about 9-10 feet in the air. From there he would bark at visitors. People would search the normal level to find where the barking was coming. Quite funny when they realized it was elevated.



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Mike M

08-30-2006 13:00:17




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 Re: O.T. Dog climbing a Tree in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-30-2006 12:17:00  
Saw one on funniest home viedos climb a tree.



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ebbsspeed

08-30-2006 12:36:28




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 Re: O.T. Dog climbing a Tree in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-30-2006 12:17:00  
I'm waiting for your follow-up post when the pup tries to climb one of those saguaro cactus. That will probably keep him from ever trying to climb a tree again.



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