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My dog finally killed a damn mole.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 5/26/18 at 4:07 pm
I'm so proud of my boy! We had a jack russell/beagle mix that passed away last year that would dig them up, but my two corgis never got the hang of it, although they are rat and mice killing machines.
I watched the whole thing happen. It had just rained hard here, and I was in the back yard sweeping leaves away from our drains. He was running around the yard barking at the thunder and and started sniffing the ground and then digging. He's not much of a digger with those short legs, but he only dug down a couple of inches and used his teeth to pull the St. Aug away and stuck his nose in and came out with the mole. He shook the shite out of it and then chomped on it for a couple of seconds.
I investigated the hole, and that damn mole was only a couple inches under ground right under the grass line. Is that normal behavior for moles? Did the rain force him to the surface?
Can you train dogs to hunt moles? I praised him and gave him a couple of treats. But I put him on a leash and took him into the front yard where the moles are really bad and he didn't do shite. He sniffed around a good bit, but never tried to dig.
I watched the whole thing happen. It had just rained hard here, and I was in the back yard sweeping leaves away from our drains. He was running around the yard barking at the thunder and and started sniffing the ground and then digging. He's not much of a digger with those short legs, but he only dug down a couple of inches and used his teeth to pull the St. Aug away and stuck his nose in and came out with the mole. He shook the shite out of it and then chomped on it for a couple of seconds.
I investigated the hole, and that damn mole was only a couple inches under ground right under the grass line. Is that normal behavior for moles? Did the rain force him to the surface?
Can you train dogs to hunt moles? I praised him and gave him a couple of treats. But I put him on a leash and took him into the front yard where the moles are really bad and he didn't do shite. He sniffed around a good bit, but never tried to dig.
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Posted on 5/26/18 at 4:19 pm to bhtigerfan
My big dog will dig wherever I point. I used to cover treats up and make him dig it up. If I saw a mole moving and blocked it off up with a shovel and pointed he would dig and go after the mole once he smelled it.
I found a little wire haired terrier while i was hunting a few years back. she was on deaths door (weighed about 7 lbs, she's 16 lbs now solid muscle) and she is a killing machine. The yard looked like a war zone at first but now you can see where the moles stop at the property line. She bites the shite out of anything and everybody but I don't have pests around. Neighbors either
I found a little wire haired terrier while i was hunting a few years back. she was on deaths door (weighed about 7 lbs, she's 16 lbs now solid muscle) and she is a killing machine. The yard looked like a war zone at first but now you can see where the moles stop at the property line. She bites the shite out of anything and everybody but I don't have pests around. Neighbors either
Posted on 5/26/18 at 4:23 pm to celltech1981
quote:Your yard is like the DMZ between North and South Korea. That's hilarious.
but now you can see where the moles stop at the property line.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 4:26 pm to celltech1981
quote:Apparently from what I've read, terriers (like the jack russell/beagle mix I had) are rodent mass murderers.
I found a little wire haired terrier
I don't need another dog right now, was just wondering if I could train these two little bastards to hunt moles effectively.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 4:36 pm to bhtigerfan
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Your yard is like the DMZ between North and South Korea. That's hilarious.
I ain't even kidding...i'll take a picture once the weather clears. I have a buried electric fence and those moles tear up the neighbors yard but stop right at the edge of whe7re my little shite dog can roam.
Edit: a pic of one of her older projects
This post was edited on 5/26/18 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 5/26/18 at 4:51 pm to celltech1981
Posted on 5/26/18 at 4:55 pm to celltech1981
Posted on 5/26/18 at 5:16 pm to bhtigerfan
Posted on 5/26/18 at 5:18 pm to bhtigerfan
Bahaha that's awesome!
Posted on 5/26/18 at 5:34 pm to celltech1981
quote:After reading what you wrote and seeing her pic, that's what came to mind.
Bahaha that's awesome!
Posted on 5/26/18 at 5:38 pm to bhtigerfan
She chewed half the ear off of my lab. I'm scared to death of her.
I guess the mole thing might be mostly instinctive
I guess the mole thing might be mostly instinctive
Posted on 5/26/18 at 5:51 pm to bhtigerfan
Its fun watching a dog get on the trail of something. Let my Boykin out this morning and noticed a trail where a turtle had gone across my yard. As soon as he crossed it his nose snapped to the ground and he was hot on the trail. Followed it to the field beside my yard and it was on.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 5:54 pm to celltech1981
Or this one.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 5:55 pm to highcotton2
Is that the trail of his belly through the dew?
Posted on 5/26/18 at 5:57 pm to bhtigerfan
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Is that the trail of his belly through the dew?
Yes. I have a pond beside my house and when the turtles are nesting some of them cross over my yard to get to a nesting site. Which a lot of times is my flower beds.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 7:03 pm to highcotton2
When I was reading about training dogs to kill moles, I ran across a forum where a guy said there was another guy with a terrier that killed moles for hire, and he got $125 per mole killed.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 7:06 pm to highcotton2
Nice level cut grass!!!
Posted on 5/26/18 at 7:35 pm to jpainter6174
quote:No shite. Looks like a golf course.
Nice level cut grass!!!
Posted on 5/26/18 at 9:17 pm to bhtigerfan
This is my favorite thread in a while. That pic
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