Dogs of Forestry Forum

[Machinebuilder]

How's this for a sawmill dog, no fancy SXS to sleep on watch from.

[Magicman]

Several years ago on a sawing job the customer's dog always crawled under the sawmill and slept there while I was sawing.  Maybe deaf or whatever but he did not mind the noise nor being covered with sawdust etc.  He would also follow the customer moving logs and got his foot under a tractor tire but he kept on just limping along and doing his sawmilling duties.

[WV Sawmiller]

   Yesterday my customer's beagle "Sheba" followed his truck to the mill site and climbed on the logs, the slab pile, the stacked lumber and one time she even jumped up on the mill just as I was fixing to start sawing. She seemed to enjoy her visit with us. Sorry I did not get a picture of her but I was sawing.

[GAB]

Yesterday my customer's beagle "Sheba" followed his truck to the mill site and climbed on the logs, the slab pile, the stacked lumber and one time she even jumped up on the mill just as I was fixing to start sawing. She seemed to enjoy her visit with us. Sorry I did not get a picture of her but I was sawing.

So you got to see the head inspector doing her job.
I hope you passed the inspection.
GAB

[moosehunter]

Meet Reacher. He is 8 days old today. He will come home in 7 more weeks. Springer Spaniel.
https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=356949
mh

[moosehunter]

Still trying to figure out the pics

[WV Sawmiller]

  Pretty pup and I love Springers .

[Magicman]

You could train him to rob banks. 

[WV Sawmiller]

You could train him to rob banks. 

Lynn,

   I missed something there.

MH.

    The last Springer Spaniel I saw was trained as a bomb detection dog and in use in the Green Zone in Bagdad Iraq in 2005 IIRC. It had a British handler and he said they preferred Springers because they were smaller than Shepherds and such, could tolerate the heat better and had a longer life expectancy/working life than bigger dogs.

    I watched that one searching a truck wanting to make a delivery inside the compound and every time the dog got to the side box it would come to a perfect point just like it had a covey of quail on the ground. It did that several times from different approaches with the same result. They finally checked the box and it was empty of explosives but at some point we were certain it had contained something the dog was trained to detect.

[moosehunter]

WV, I think Lynn was referring to the eye patches, ie; mask.

I have read about springers being bomb / police / military dogs overseas.
My first springer ( if my dad was still alive he might say it was his!, I know better ) I helped my dad pick out when I was 6 or so. Right now we have Millie, she is almost 4, Reacher will make #8 over my lifetime.
mh

[Magicman]

Of course, why the mystery??  A Coon has a sorta similar mask over it's eyes and is referred to as a bandit. 

[barbender]

We just lost a cat a couple of months ago, Midnight. He and I were great pals for 19 years. We first met when we were at a Bible study, apparently the neighbors had some kittens. My two oldest daughters, who were probably 5 and 3 at the time, brought a kitten to their Mom. "ABSOLUTELY NOT!" she told them. So they came in the other room where I was, and just set the kitten on my chest. He went right to sleep, purring away. He went home with us that night😂

So Midnight could often be found on my chest, both of us conked out in the living room.

I could call him from anywhere, and he would immediately come running. He listened far better in that regard than the two Corgis we have!

Last fall when we got back from vacation, I noticed he was dropping weight. Then he started losing hair. I brought him to the vet, they diagnosed him with a large abdominal tumor. Keep him comfortable.

He made it about another week and a half, the last night I knew he didn't have much longer as he was really getting weak and wobbly. He still wanted to get up and lay on my lap though. That's what he did the last night, then he got down and went and laid on something in the entryway and died.

One heck of a good cat.

[Resonator]

I know the feeling Barbender. My tom cat passed away at 16 end of summer. Raised him from a kitten, funny how a person gets attached to them furballs.

[Jeff]