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My dog vs the badger

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We had an over night camp for some special need kids at Challenge Mt. thurs and fri. Friday after lunch we took them bluegill fishing in a private pond. Somehow Buddy cornered a badger under the truck, right in the middle of it all. Here I'm knee deep in a pond untangling two bamboo poles and someone yells that buddy's after something and won't let up. I get up to the truck and here's Buddy going nose to nose with a hissing, growling, skunk smelling badger, and he's mad, they are both very pissed off. I haven't seen him this mad since a squirrel locked onto his bottom lip 5-6 years ago. I got everyone to back up, pulled him out and threw him in the truck.
Wow! The kids thought it was a cat. This was 50ft from a house, 3pm on a 85 degree day, Badgers are supposed to be nocturnal.
I know for a fact that God looks after his special kids, because this was a disaster in the making. There were kids within 10 ft of the truck at the time, not one of them knows the danger they were in, never will.
Buddy is a very lucky dog, as he was more or less on his belly under that truck. I have to help him get into it more than not, as he'll be 13 soon, he just needs a little boost (or boot) sometimes.
He is no match for a badger, check that, I thought he was no match for a badger. But by him surviving, without a scratch, he won.
He has been the dog of a lifetime, sometimes, and to believe he is a pound puppy that came within an hour of an appointment with Dr Euthanasia.
 

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Good looking pup. He probably ain't a match for a badger but was protecting you and the kids so who knows.
 
Fine looking friend there , Glad to here it worked out for all concerned . Kudo,s to you for your involvement with the kids . :wink:
 
He was a fine hunter in his time, the last few years though he's slowed down a bit. He's more of a retriever than a pointer, we'd be hunting four wide and if someone shot, he was there, and more than not, if a bird went down, he'd find the bird before the other dog we used.
Now he's hard of hearing, forgets what he's doing half of the time, poops in the hall, and sleeps most of the day. Just like his old man! But he can find a potato chip in a hay field, and see a squirrel 300yds away.
I'm hoping he'll stay around long enough to train his (bad word)" replacement".
And as far as me volunteering, it's my penance.
And I can.
 
kermit2 said:
But he can find a potato chip in a hay field, and see a squirrel 300yds away.
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That has to be one of the best descriptions of a dog that I have ever seen. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

Our 13-year old has slowed down to the point of STOP. Her rhumatiz is so bad now that her morning patrol round the house takes 30 minutes instead of the usual 5 but she still makes it every day. I tag along behind her just to ensure that she doesn't get in to a predicament. It's a shame that dogs have to get old. I kinda wish that we could all peg out at the same time and place.
 
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