Emily
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: West Kill, NY
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I had an incident where I took my hound to a state park during the daytime for some exercise. There happened to be a DEC officer I knew in the parking lot, so I turned my dog loose and was chatting with the guy when my dog treed right in front of us, but he wasn't barking. But he sure seemed interested in something in that tree--he was standing on it and jumping up now and then. I went over to take a look just as he grabbed something white. Not knowing what it was, I gave him a firm "drop it" and he did. It was a peanut butter sandwich! I let him have it... I have no idea how it got in the tree.
Another time, the same dog (yes he's a pot licker and used to eating human food) was treed hard on a small spruce tree in my fenced yard. He has free run of the yard and has been known to bark at all sorts of things in the yard when he knows he's not hunting, but this time he sounded properly treed so I went out to check. I didn't see anything, but the tree was small enough so I could bend the top down. I found chicken bones! They looked like they had been butchered--there were clean breaks. Its possible that a coon had taken them from the neighbor's garbage, but I suspect that would be giving the hound too much benefit of the doubt... Talk about treeing trash!
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