Aww Bengi 😢

Hutchy was a brave dog that would fight to the finish, one foot tall he was with an eight foot attitude! So we kept him safe in back yard with ring lock lining the parallel bar fence.
He had his own big yard and comfy lounge room.
So he was restricted yet free.
We had signs on the back gate “beware of dog” too.

I have a sad dog story, our little chiwawa cross jack russell, Pepsi.
We could never open a door and whoosh she was out!
Running off and had to go chase after her, zigging and zagging as she did.
What a pain that dog was.
That mad jack russel part. Lucky we were on acreage so there were no busy roads near for her to run on.
Well after trying to keep her safe all those years, 8 years in fact. She had a nice double insulated house, near the sliding glass door so we could see her.

She had a wall around and yet always escaped, she would run into next doors property where they had 2 horses,
One horse was a mean one, and as she ran and zigged, the horse tried to stomp on her, I would freak.
If I called her she would stop still and look so I had to refrain ... she makes it back safe.
I’m annoyed a lot.
That stress of Pepsi always taking off like a mad critter!!
One day, she climbed over the even higher wall surrounding her dog house, I yelled at her, she looked at me, then took off.

Now what happens is she always comes back and we see her at the door.
She didn’t come back. We go out yelling out her name. Nothing.
Next day, I go around with my daughter asking all the neighbouring properties if they saw her.
Nothing.
Before nightfall, I looked at those 2 horses, and noticed one kept looking back at a certain area, like as if it achieved something, or making certain it didn’t move?
I read that horses body language.
I said to hubby and daughter. We need to go into next doors paddock, near our fence line.....and we sadly found her on her side, motionless.
I says, turn her over, and we found a bloodied head wound on the other side. Horse stomped her. This time she never made it back.😞
The reason Pepsi was attracted to going next door was to run around with the chooks!!

Back in the Bundy days.....there was Sax.  The female Dobberman.  The absolute best dog I or my Family ever had.

I was living with my parents at the time...in a separated Flat sort of area.  They went off to Victoria to visit elder Brother at Puckapunyal.  Came back after two weeks and the Old Man said he had taken over Sax from a neighbour of Brother, as neighbour had been assigned an overseas post and could not take her.  She was, I reckon, nine months old.  Mum and Dad get back and tell me about it.

So, we build a big wide and shallow box which fitted neatly into the back of my brand new Toyota Celica Hatchback and off we go to Brisbane airport to pick her up.  There she was.  Amazing.  Black and tan with that never-ending sheen on the black.  Beautiful looking dog.

In she gets into the box and sleeps all the way back from Brisbane to Bundy, a four-hour drive.

The Old Man walked her around the boundary of the half-acre block we lived in and she learned, pissed out her markers.  Those were the days when dogs still were allowed to roam free in the neighbourhood, and I wish those days came back.

Thing is....while Sax, as she grew, knew what the Home Boundaries were, they were not for her, just for other pooches.  She would greet any human arriving with great delight (I put that down to the time the Old Man spent with her telling her that people are okay) and while she would give a woof in a notification for us, she would then lick the crap out of the human visitor.

But, she did have one vice.

Bloody chooks.

A short distance neighbour had chooks and Sax treated that place as her smorgasbord, and it cost my Old Man plenty in reparations replacing chooks she had.....umm......encountered and despatched.  So, ultimately, the Old Man got her, somehow to leave the bloody chooks alone.

She was great.  Call her, she would come instantly.  Kids could crawl all over her whatever and she loved it. 

But.

She knew, as I said, what was her zone.  One boundary of the property was a creek.  On the other side of that creek was a potential intruder.....pooch.  Mongrel bitsa and a tad bigger than Sax.  She always had an eye on that bloke.

He had balls. No matter how many times he came into the Sax territory and she beat him off with his tail between his legs, and until she died at 14, they kept the game going.  He would cross the creek, she would attack, she belted him, off he went, rinse and repeat.

One day, she walked into the House, lay down on the carpet beside the Old Man then sitting in his chair, and went to sleep.

Vale, Sax, best of them all.

Jovial Monk wrote on Jun 29^th, 2020 at 6:59pm:


If your Mum was not so frail, you ought get one.  It would love Tassie, and your capacity to train.  They are sponges on learning stuff.

I have read—only read mind—that Jack Russells do not tolerate other pets, will kill any cat or dog you may have. Also read that a Jack can tackle a dog four times its weight—over-muscled aggro dogs trained to go down a fox earth and drive the fox back to the surface so the “Hunt” can go on.

Look:

There needs to be a lot more control on dogs, it's a free for all,
a ridge back with an ice freak owner is allowable.

Jovial Monk wrote on Jun 29^th, 2020 at 8:34pm:

They were bred to kill lions.

Jovial Monk wrote on Jun 29^th, 2020 at 8:40pm:

Yes, they hunt in packs.

John Smith wrote on Jun 29^th, 2020 at 8:25pm:

Doberman dogs have had the aggression bred out of them but they are still liable to win any dogfight they get involved in!

I told some idiot exercising his two doberman dogs right by a playground that there was a dog park not far away and his dogs could really run there. Moron needed convincing and his two Dobermanns ran at me. I stood my ground.

Haven’t seen the moron since.

I did see a kid get bitten by some mutt. So did the boy’s father, bet quite a bit of money changed hands. This happened on the other side of the same damn playground!

Why are some people such idiots? Take your dog to the dog park. Give it more exercise than that dog obviously got!