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Posted: 9/17/2014 9:04:13 PM EDT

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Yup. I think my wife said one killed a young one once. Maybe not.

They both have killed birds though.

Posted: 9/18/2014 10:25:16 AM EDT

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Chases, but doesn't have the tactics or speed to actually get one.
They always make it to the trees or top of the fence first.

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:12:16 AM EDT

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Plenty of people train their dogs to be squirrel dogs for hunting.

BigDozer66

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:22:36 AM EDT

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Dog will hunt.

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:22:39 AM EDT

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Squirrels? No... But the warhounds go apeshit over birds and rabbits.

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:28:50 AM EDT

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This dog has killed 6 squirrels in the last two weeks.

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Squirrels are furry mammals. I believe what you have there is an ostrich.

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:37:38 AM EDT

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Yes.

My Shih Tzu HATES squirrels, rabbits, dillos, possums, raccoons. There was one little tree rat that would hang in front of the door into my house. Door is all glass. I swear that fucker was taunting him.

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:48:46 AM EDT

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I have a dog that chases everything that moves...including flies

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:51:13 AM EDT

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Our female beagle is obsessive about it.

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Yes sir! Our youngest female will stalk them until she's in striking distance and then make a death lunge & shake them to death like rag dolls. Had a huge crop of sunflowers this year. She was out from dawn to dark. Very cool, calculating, skilled hunters. Love the beagles.

Beagle huntress

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:54:43 AM EDT

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My dog will try to kill any animal that is in our yard that he feels does not belong there. And its all his decision, if he doesn't like it, it will die. Crazy mf'er.

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My Anatolian is the same way..

Posted: 9/18/2014 11:59:35 AM EDT

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I have had Dog Vader less than a month and I just seen him try climb a tree to kill Mr. Squirrel. Funny as hell.

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OMG My dog is pathologically insane when it comes to squirrels. Probably a cumulative condition caused by never being able to actually catch one.

He has entertained the community for years at the park, during little league softball games, by trying to ascend to the middle of a tree growing there. I swear he has hang time. He has launched himself at the lower branches six feet off the ground, closed his jaws over the branch, and hung there for minutes a time. You would think he was a cat from the way he walks up the trunk, then the jaws take over from there. I wish I had video, it's quite funny, and he does it with every tree he can latch onto.

In all the years I've had him he gives it his all, but it's never quite good enough. Medium sized German shepherd mix, very fast....bu not fast enough. And unforutantely not smart enough either. I let him out into the yard once after one. Vast expanse of yard, with one trash can in the entire vista. Dog starts to go after squirrel, squirrel runs behind trash can, dog gets confused. ("Which way did he go George, which way did he go?!?!) Derp

I love my dog.

Posted: 9/18/2014 12:00:16 PM EDT

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My pitbull is faster than squirrels, she catches up to them and then just sniffs their tail as they run to and eventually up a tree lol. It's hilarious.

Posted: 9/18/2014 12:10:50 PM EDT

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I have an in shape black mouth cur and a fat ass black lab. The Cur is damn fast and could catch them if fatty didnt sound like a screaming bull coming at them. For those that don't know, Curs were bread to run hogs down. She is also a mole killing machine.

Posted: 9/18/2014 12:14:19 PM EDT

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No. We have no squirrels on our mountain. My lab likes birds and bunnies!

Posted: 9/18/2014 12:22:22 PM EDT

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she just tried and failed at a woodchuck....

we're working smarter next time - around the house and up the driveway for maximum stealth.....

I need to get her a hunting collar without all the dangling tags

Posted: 9/18/2014 12:26:19 PM EDT

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Anything that runs from her is fair game in her mind. The only thing she ever catches are lizards. I try to discourage her. Nothing better than discovering a bifurcated lizard before I've had my coffee...

Posted: 9/18/2014 12:32:35 PM EDT

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Yeah, my cairn sits on the back of the couch in the family room so he see out the window and watch the little rats. When he sees one he runs to the door and rocks back and forth til you open it. And away he goes! But we have a fence and they can get over that into the trees before he gets them(so far).

Buddy of mine in high school had a dog that would chase them onto the chain link fence, and they would sit at the top and tease him. One day it was rainy and Duke didn't stop in time and hit the fence. Stupid squirrel fell inside, end of squirrel. And Duke gave up on stopping, he would just run into the fance as fast as he could, because every once in a while they would fall into the yard!

Posted: 9/18/2014 5:24:37 PM EDT

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Squirrels are furry mammals. I believe what you have there is an ostrich.

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This dog has killed 6 squirrels in the last two weeks.

http://i.imgur.com/01F17iO.jpg

Squirrels are furry mammals. I believe what you have there is an ostrich.

You sir don't know an ostrich from a hole in the ground!

That is a Possum for sure!

BigDozer66

Posted: 9/18/2014 5:34:22 PM EDT

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Dogs will be dogs.

Posted: 9/18/2014 5:39:12 PM EDT

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I have two Original Mountain Curs. The breed's existence pretty much revolves around treeing squirrels (and raccoons).

Yes, my dogs go after squirrels.

Posted: 9/18/2014 5:40:10 PM EDT

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Got a mountain feist bred for squirrels. Damn thing goes bonkers over them.

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Same here.

It's what she was born to do.

Posted: 9/18/2014 5:47:40 PM EDT

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Yeah, but our labs love to hunt deer.

Every year they get a couple of fawns added to their tally.

Posted: 9/18/2014 5:50:29 PM EDT

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My beagle is 14.5

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She will still make a half hearted attempt, but she is way past her prime.

LOL!!

My beagle/dachound mix used to chase them and they were always just out of reach. I kind of think she didn't really want to catch them.

My beagle will bark at them and tree them, then I try to shoot them with the pellet gun for them to eat. Sometimes I can't because there are too many witnesses but they don't understand. It's so sad when that happens.

Posted: 9/18/2014 5:51:23 PM EDT

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Even parrots hate the little rat fuckers...

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Posted: 9/18/2014 5:51:54 PM EDT

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My Doxies try all the time, watched one collide head on with a squirrel at full speed once, funny as hell

Posted: 9/18/2014 9:54:40 PM EDT

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oh hell yes. mine would be the happiest dog in the world if she could just climb a freaking tree.

Posted: 9/18/2014 10:01:52 PM EDT

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The Babe is a squirrel hunting machine.

When she takes me for a walk, she gets five points
for spotting one and another five points if she trees it.

Lots of fun.

Has been known to climb a tree or two in
hot pursuit.

She also loves to hunt voles....Totally
different approach.

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc18/Babo47/Project153-1-2.jpg

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You want to make some puppies? I am 100% serious. I like the looks of your dog and Elvis is a perfect sire. Best dog I have ever owned

Posted: 9/18/2014 10:08:08 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/18/2014 10:08:54 PM EDT

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You say the word "squirrel" and the ears go up. She hasn't gotten one yet, but she still tries.

At the moment, though, she's all into my basil plants looking for a gecko she's chasing.

Posted: 9/18/2014 10:15:03 PM EDT

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This little bastard comes to my door every morning to bark at my dogs and piss them off. He knows just as soon as he sees me to run for his life because my dogs are coming for him.

Yes, he is barking in this pic.
Dogs are Jack Russell and Dachshund Beagle mix.

The Jack Russell goes up the kids play set rock wall after him. Came close a few times.

Posted: 9/18/2014 10:16:56 PM EDT

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My dog chases them every chance she gets. She's 11 now and not slowing down, she's killed more critters than I can count. She lives for it and she barks and runs when she's dreaming.

Posted: 9/18/2014 10:17:39 PM EDT

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This little bastard comes to my door every morning to bark at my dogs and piss them off. He knows just as soon as he sees me to run for his life because my dogs are coming for him.
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm299/ackspac/20140911_083352_zpsy9t5cktl.jpg

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You need a rat trap

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