Thread: Deer dog

Originally Posted by Scribe

Hi philipgr, Not successfully. When I started culling I had and Irish setter bitch with me that I was very fond of. I virtually walked the poor thing to death. I still regret not taking her out early and giving her away. You were dissuaded from leaving your block though.

She got as much venison as she could eat everyday but it wasn't enough I should have shot a few possums that would have helped her keep the condition on maybe. It was the river crossings that knocks the dogs around in winter and spring. Water up to your thighs a hunter could handle but the dog would get swept downstream and end up on the same side she left. Sometimes you would be criss crossing the river for five or six hours in a day. I would leave her some days to make it to the next hut as best she could

I shot her at Kelly Knight Hut. She was just skin and bone by then. When I think about her now I feel I need to go back to KK hut and spend a little time there once again and tell her I am sorry for what happened.

It sounds like you had a loyal companion in that dog and I'm sorry to hear things panned out that way.