Hey all I had a dog that used to chase squirrels, and one time the squirrel out smarted her and she ended up taking a piece of angle iron in the shoulder. That put her out of commission for about 2 months, well as it seems that 2 nonths she thought of nothinng but safe revenge. I say this because as soon as she was healed upI observed her sitting at the base of one of the trees in the back yard stone silent while a squirrel was mocking her. Chattering away at the top of it's lungs. Lucky stayed still never even blinked. The squirrel couldn't accept this so it moved in closer to investigate. Lucky stayed still. She was about an inch from the trunk of the tree and the squirrel was about 8 feet away up the trunk. This went on for at least 20 minutes, and Lucky stayed still while the squirrel got closer and closer. Finally the squirrel was right in front of Lucky, at that split second, lucky grabbed the squirrel ran out in the yard and threw the squirrel up in the air. The squirrel flew up about 20 feet and Lucky watched as it fell, hitting the ground she then repeated the action until the squirrel didn't move anymore. Then she proundly brought the un marred carcus to the back door as a gift.

Mt current dog Milo on the other hand (he's a beagle) just tracks them he doesn't care that they are there he just follows their trails in tha back yard. He also sleeps through big foot encounters while camping. I call a big foot encounter when a critter messes with the tent or campsite in the middle of the night but there is no trace of any kind of track around where it was heard or felt. Last summer I had something walk along the edge of my wall tent and get tangled in the guy lines, pulling one 12 inch stake out and propelling it 30 feet away. It left no tracks, and Milo slept right through it. I think it's time to get a gard dog instead of a tracking dog.