Around 2 in the afternoon, I went outside with Rowdy running ahead of me. Soon as he got outside of the door, his ears were at full attention and looking left and right, like he is when I alert him to a squirrel in the yard. I didn't know what he was tuned into, but he was sniffing and smelling all around and up on top of the deck. I told him to "Get that squirrel" and he hunted around and under the deck. He was under the deck for several minutes when I called him out. He came over to the storage building where I was working and laid by it, still keeping a keen eye on the deck.
About 30 minutes later, he got up and like a cat, slowly started to creep toward the deck, with his head low and his cackles up. So I peered out of the building and I saw the squirrel moving across in front of my back door and told Rowdy to "Get Him!" Rowdy took off like a shot and chased the squirrel till he made it to the fence and a tree for safety. I realized later that he may have had the squirrel cornered under the deck, because he was reluctant to come out from under it when I called him.
Rowdy always gets great praise and sometimes a treat when he chases those squirrels out of the yard....."Did you get um? Did you get that squirrel? That's a boy! That's the way to get that squirrel!"
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