Dale & I went up to Gordy's with Mabel & Ruby. Mabel looks like she's in heat so Gordy took Lucky. They struck a hot track in the corn & treed pretty quick. Ruby was treeing but stayed way back from those other dogs til we got there. With a little encouragement, she got right up on the tree with the big dogs. We sent the dogs on from there. Ruby struck on a hot track & took it across the section, probably deer. She did a fine job on it, just like Mabel would have at her age. Mabel grubbed around for about an hour in one spot & I finally just caught her. Just a coincidence, but a coon was up in the tree next to me when I called her in. She located & treed when she got to me. Lucky got out of hearing and treed, so she was the hero tonight. I brought Roy home with me. He's been slick treeing & I'm going to try to correct the problem. So I'm back to too many dogs in the house again. Luckily he's a small dog & my wife has always liked him. Mabel looks really old this morning & with Belle gone I need a medium dog for a little while anyway. Hope this works out. Nitro made NT CH Friday night. Paul really got lucky to get a dog like Nitro. I figure he was the best in this litter, but maybe he's the best out of ten litters. We may be talking about Nitro for a long time.
Posted by bruceo at October 19, 2003 01:34 AM