The hills have eyes - Page 1

It's now fully dark when I take 'ol Nelson out for his evening gallop over the fields and on occasional nights when the wind and moon & fox howls are right it can be a little spooky.

Anyway, last night half way round the hound gets on the track of something and thunders off into the distance after some action. Nothing new and no worries I thought, I'll just wait here a while and then call him back. After about 5 minutes there is no sign of him so I switch on the torch and scan the distant hedgerows.

I catch a flash of eyes and was just about to call him when, WHOA!! he quietly and suddenly appears at my side.....

Now we don't have bears or wolves or such like in the Uk but it doesn't seem to stop the imagination working overtime.

AandA

Your shot story is as lonely as the night you wrote about: just nothing more than taking a chunck of PDB space. Keep dreaming dear.

I heard there are some BIG cats hiding in those hedgerows! LOL

NigerMan, why so rude?

maybe no wolves or bears in U.K. but there could still be the occasional werewolf around.

take care,
Rik

AandA, I am not in the UK, but I know how it feels to get spooked.  They say to listen and take heed, when the hair raises on the back of your neck, otherwise the next hint of trouble might well be a brick to the back of the head, or one of those big cats leaping out of the darkness as the case may be.

I've heard the same about big cats in the UK, beetree. And Rik, you just never know!!!

sueincc,that is a fine looking dog.is he yours and can you maby put a better pic and his pedigree.he is built like a tank

Big cats in the UK have almost reached urban myth status because conclusive proof has never been found. But every now and then smudged fleeting photos are taken and sheep carcasses are found in a state that no indigenous animal could ever have caused. They reckon its escaped leopards/jaguars/pumas and I'm sure the hairs on the back of my neck wouldn't have time to raise if one of those attacked!

As RIk mentioned it's the "ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night" that really get you worried.


AandA

I'm in Mountain Lion country.  What I have heard is if you ever see one when out and about, it's probably too late to do anything.

Deer season starts Monday in Ohio--I never let a dog out (day or night) when we become infested with city hunters, without being accompanied. Not being demeaining to city folks, but they have actually shot goats and tried to tag them in at a deer checking station. LAST YEAR I was taking a female to the vet for progresterone testing and a guy came in with a 2 year old GSD with an arrow through his chest. There are man accounts of cattle being shot.

Coyotes here too, so we have to be watchful of 1 coming in to draw a dog back to the pack for a pack-kill. I had a friend that had a hound pack-killed in his yard.

I saw a humorous picture for sale in a gas station up here once...

A lady hunter (no sexist humor implied here...Was a city girl) with her gun on a guy and her dead game animal...The guy says, "Fine, Lady...Ya can have yer moose..Just let me get my saddle off 'im first."  The "moose" was a white horse.

Hunting season brings worry to folks who are native to the hunted areas, because sometimes folks who are not native (not always are they from the city) don't always know what their game animals look like.  There has been more than one florescent orange-wearing hunter shot because someone else mistook them for bear, deer, moose, whatever.

I guess the moral of that story would be to always know what's behind your target, and always know what your game looks like!

AandA, even if there are no major dangerous animals, always listen to that still small voice...The predator is not always an animal...Sometimes we are hunted by our own kind.

Crys