Swifter than a running deer...

[bunn]

This morning we found a deer when out walking. My immediate reaction was to grab Az and get him on-lead, and fortunately I managed to do that before he worked out what was going on.

Mollydog saw the deer first and took off after it like a speeding bullet, but there was no help for that, I was busy with Az. Az safely on lead, I turned to look for Mollydog, only to see her *overtake* the deer, do a big victory circuit round the field and come racing back to tell me how she WON THE RACE. Who said racing greyhounds only run because they want to catch things...?

I had to give her a round of applause when she arrived back in front of me (she loves applause) she looked so pleased with herself.

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[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I know that sort of fun. I grew up in the New Forest where there were all the commoner's animals as well as deer. Taking the dog for a wal was always fraught with danger, the dog would run (not after anything, but just run) and that would spook an animal which would run and the dog would see that and change from just running to chasing.

At least the first dog we had was a daft labradour, spanial, alsation cross and wasn't very fast. The next one had dalmation and was faster and with more staminar, she'd be away and gone in a moment. On more than one occasion we'd be out for hours after she'd decided she wasn't coming back. The rest of the time she was a good as gold, come when she was called, sit when told and everything.