Proudest you've ever been of your dog?

Not sure about proud, but I was awfully impressed with how efficient of a rat killer she was the first time she got a crack at one. I mean, this is just a lap terrier by day. Gets one whiff of a rat in my gas grill, and it was on like a chicken bone. One bite kill too. I heard the ribs and backbones crack.

The day she retrieved her first ducks. It was her first hunt and mostly blind retrieves as the woodies were coming in fast and I didn't her retrieving while we were shooting. She took a second to figure out what I was trying to get her to do, but once she found the first duck it was on like donky kong.

The next was when she actually caught a squirrel in our backyard. I was impressed.

My female shorthair pointed and then snagged a woodcock in flight. When I walked up she dropped it and it flew off, Sushi was a witness...

My boxer is beautiful and a champion line dog but damn he is stupid. I was so happy when he finally learned to lay down and roll over at the age of 5

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Does she get a minus for that?

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Na, she didn't her feet, just snagged it...

We were at the dog park and this big dog kept humping all the female dogs. I knew mine (black lab mix) wouldn't go for that and as soon as he tried to mount her she turned on him, gave him the business and damn near pinned him. He probably had 20 pounds on her but she never backs down ever....I love that about her.





Oh and she keeps cats out of my yard....that's always nice.

I'll just do my oldest, Smokey..

About 7 years ago I was hunting in the county across the mountain and we were being tracked by two coyotes, Smokey started barking and I didn't see anything, so I continued in and he was sitting there showing his teeth, this is really weird for him. So I look down in the woods a bit and there were four coyotes that had been tailing us, I peppered the shite out of then with my benelli 20ga. I'm pretty sure they would've gotten the jump on us. Wouldn't have been to bad, but you never want to draw down on a coyote when he is rolling with your dog.. I wouldn't anyway. Smokey turned 15 on Tuesday.. he is my best bud..

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Lost 2 dogs and a cat in Hattiesburg 5 years ago to coyotes

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Jesus, hate that for you..

I hate those bastards, we had one up here about fifty years ago that was world famous, and I mean world famous..

shite, they even have a 5k/half marathon named after him, it's called The Varmint

My female black lab rolled a rotteweiler. She is a mean bitch.

I think the proudest was either

1. She swam over 200 yards and ran across a floaton to retrieve a duck that was wounded and swam under neath the floaton. My lab pull the bird out of the middle of the floaton... Quite amazing actually.

2. I wounded a grey duck and it swam underwater. My lab went under water completely submerged behind it and came up with it in her mouth. Bobbing for ducks

My Blackmouth Cur blew my mind when after chasing our 4-wheelers for miles eating our dust the whole time we had stopped at one of my stands and there were four deer standing there looking at us. Jesse finally catches up, stops between the bikes, sees the deer, sees our excitement, takes off like a shot and covers the fifty yards to them and cuts a little doe out and bays her. She eventually got around him and took off across the field with him loping along beside her nipping her on the arse for a quarter mile while I'm chasing on the four wheeler. Had he wanted to he could have easily stopped her again.

Then there was the day he caught the biggest damn possum I ever saw, bayed it for awhile till I came out in the back yard to see what all the fuss was about. As soon as I stepped out, one bite on the chest with a little shake and that thing was dead. I couldn't kill one that big that fast with a .22.