CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[CntryBoy777]

Yeh Bruce....above ground it is difficult to tell if it is a mole, vole, or chipmunk tunnel, but it is surely one of them.......it gets messy when the ground is soggy and ya step in one and sink above ankle deep in the mud.....

 

[Bruce]

Sounds like a pretty good size tunnel if you can break through like that. I don't know how often moles come out above ground. The critters Al (up the road that mows my fields once a year) calls "meadow moles" are actually voles. The look a lot like a large mouse with a shorter tail. It is fun to watch them "surfing" as I mow along to keep the fields from getting too tall after Al does his thing. No true mole could move that fast.

 

[CntryBoy777]

The cats here will go after either, but they get more voles and chipmunks than they do moles....funny thing is they won't eat the voles or moles, but they love those chipmunks....

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm finding fewer tunnels of any kind since I think our dogs were miners in another life. Thor doesn't even want his food some days but he is still putting weight on.

 

[Latestarter]

Yeah... some places here they've tunneled so much in one area that it's like walking on jello... Can't even define individual tunnels in some areas... the whole area is lifted up. When I get heavy rain, it washes down into the tunnels and comes out someplace else like a mud slide, carrying all sorts of debris, stones, dirt, etc. Hope she figures it out pretty quick so you don't have a yard full of pits.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I had to answer a duck call the other night and got a small male possum....I thought about coming back in and getting Gabbie to see what she would do...but, it was cold out and I think she is still a bit too young to do much more than sniff, bark, or whimper away....like she did with the toilet paper roll. It won't be long though before I'll get her introduced to things. I don't think she is going to be a barker....she doesn't bark at things she hears....my othe GSD I had when I was young was that way....she was the one that snuck up behind my Grandma and bite her leg as her foot hit the first step at our house back on the 180acre farm Mom and Dad had....Mom had stayed home sick that day and Grandma came to visit and check on her. As she came up the drive Princess barked and Grandma told her to shut up and go on away....my Mom warned her that Princess knew something was wrong, but she said the dog wasn't going to do anything....not a bark or a sound she made, but had her calf in her mouth when the foot hit the step....Grandma looked at Mom and told her your dog just bit me. She was fine but got a tetanus shot and we had to keep Princess chained for 10days....the day she came off the chain, she was hit and killed by a dump truck on our dirt road. Gabbie looks a bit like Princess, so hopefully things will be different this time around....but, I'm not in the 3rd grade like I was then....

 

[Baymule]

I am so enjoying the Gabbie journey!

 

[Bruce]

I think she is far to young to be out learning about and protecting against predators. At least not without an adult dog to 'splain things to her.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Today I took Gabbie over to the pond....Joyce has taken her over there before, but this was my first time taking her there....as we walked up the hill that leads there she suddenly stopped, the hair on her neck stood up, and she began barking....this was all in the direction that I had seen the coyote a month or so ago....she relaxed some when we made it to the pond. The water level is up and has backedup into the spillway, but isn't overflowing..... ....the water looks much better than it has in a while now. We left the pond and she had a blast running around in field#4 and the base of the levee and we headed back towards the house making the turn and walking around the fence in field#1....we stopped a few times along the ditch.....and with some water standing in the bottom of it ya can see the task of cleaning it off will be very labor intensive..... ....and of course Gabbie and her nose found a treasure trove..... ....a nice pile of deer pellets, the green there is some garlic growing. Then a little further down the ditch she started scratching the dirt right in front of a buck rub.... ....I also tried to take some pics that shows her frame and leanness even tho we feed her about 5cups of puppy food a day..... her shoulders are definitely wider than her ribs and there is a definite cut infront of the haunches. It does seem that she changes daily and is starting to leave some of the puppy stuff behind....she tried to help Joyce the other day to herd the chickens into their pen....but, it wasn't time for them to go in yet....tho she keeps trying without attacking....

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm not sure where these big pups put all of the food that they get. She is getting prettier by the day and I don't envy you working down in that ditch. At least mine have shallow edges.