Last weekend brought this interesting e-mail from Chris Barr from Indiana, and the story will put a smile on your face. Chris owns Gerti , who is going to be four years old in April (Gwen von Moosbach-Zuzelek, a daughter of Billy and Gilda)). He also has a younger adopted black and tan shorthaired dachshund Oscar.
Chris writes:
I hope your new year
is off to a great start!
Gerti and I made the
February edition of The Gadabout. Page 6. In the January issue they reported on
the large buck taken by Todd Wallace. It was a liver shot and Gerti and I
tracked it 10 hours after the hit. .52 Miles. The author of the article wanted
to do a quick article about Gerti for the next edition. Follow the link: http://www.thegadabout.com/
I have to tell you a
quick story. Yesterday Gerti, Oscar and I were on a run. As you know, when off
leash Gerti wears a GPS collar as she’s always on “the hunt”. Oscar is really
good about staying within eyesight and he checks in frequently, so I’ve never
equipped him with one. Well Gerti had just run a rabbit under an old barn and
lost it. We started out across an open field and I started to call for Oscar. I
realized that it had been about 5 minutes since I’d seen him. I continued to
call thinking I’d see him any second. I was starting to get pretty concerned at
this point. I was calling Oscar pretty feverishly when Gerti came around. I
looked at her and said, “where’s Oscar?”. She looked at me like she knew exactly
what I’d said. Very firmly I said, “Gerti find Oscar”. The command “find it” is
what I always use when putting her on a deer or rabbit. Well she spun on a dime
and ran on a sprint across the open field about 150 yards to the barn where
she’d lost the rabbit. I followed her across the field and into the barn. There
was Oscar in an old corn crib. Somehow he’d gotten into the crib, but it was
about a 3 foot jump to the ground and he didn’t want to make it so he just
stayed there. Gerti knew he was there the whole time. I had not seen Oscar when
Gerti was running the rabbit. The last I’d seen him he was not near the barn so
I did not expect him to be there.
So I’ll add that to
her resume…”tracks black and tan adopted dachshunds”
Take
care,
Chris and Gerti…….and
Oscar.
Joe Walters and Chris Barr with Gerti |
1 comment:
YAY Gerti!!!
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