Backyard Critters doing damage

[Abnshrek]

I set my plants out 2 days ago & this morning I noticed a lot of soil was dug up in pots... grrrr. I set the trap - pnut butter bait. Free swim lessons just started!

Well if you got one of those critters from the storage you just get them started and let one the critters finish up :^) I had a gator (7ft'er) on my back porch a number of years back down south of here. Well I corraled it out of the back yard so pets and kids didn't become bait. Fish & Game (A bunch of clowns that had to take a picture with it) picked it up on the double. :^)

[Patty in Wisc]

Squirrel 105 just failed a swim lesson this A.M. Haven't trapped one since Jan. 20th so, time to get on the ball & catch up w/Shrek LOL. Resetting trap now.

[Abnshrek]

That beetle w/ the black dots did the leaf damage. Now that's messed up! Glad I caught it before there was no leaf.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=31750&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=31750)

[Abnshrek]

Squirrel count #174 :^)

#175 & 4 days left of the season :^) till Oct 3.

[Abnshrek]

#175 & 4 days left of the season :^) till Oct 3.

#176 :^) I think I need to rezero.. I hit to many bumps in my go-go machine.. lol :^)

[Patty in Wisc]

Came home today & the bait gone..trap closed & whole thing was moved!!!! A squirrel could not move it. It's reset w/ bait again...can't wait for a.m. to see what I get. I thought I got rid of all the possum & coons...hmmmm.
I have a crawlspace under my sunroom that they could be living in. I need to put a better skirt around it but I don't want to crawl in there & be face to face w/ momma coon protecting her babies!

[Abnshrek]

I need to put a better skirt around it but I don't want to crawl in there & be face to face w/ momma coon protecting her babies!

That reminds me of that Billy Bob guy from La. here on A&E, the Exterminator. Its good for a laugh or two.. lol :^) I think his brother is in jail, maybe he can visit his brother in jail and catch rats :^)

[justjoan]

I have seen ads for this show but haven't caught it yet, will have to make a point to soon.

[Abnshrek]

I have seen ads for this show but haven't caught it yet, will have to make a point to soon.

I think its on wednesday nights.. Anyway I had to net my orange tree I think crows are grabbing my buds. Next year I'm going to have to do my nectarines, peach, and an almond. I think I got sunburned :^)

[D_&_T]

Do ex-wifes count as backyard critters doing damage?

[Patty in Wisc]

Do ex-wifes count as backyard critters doing damage?
ha ha, I don't think so LOL. I kill my critters.
Yesterday, got 106 & 107. Squirrel 107 trapped before I put bait out! Today my loquat tree was knocked over. It wasn't windy & the pot is big & heavy. hmmm

[D_&_T]

What wasn't frozen over the winter in the garage because she never turned heat on, she has just thrown out in the yard to finned for itself.

[justjoan]

Help Abnshrek and Patty, see below!!! Minnesota needs you!:woohoonaner:

MINNEAPOLIS -- Target Field's wild kingdom has expanded.
Three weeks after a bird of prey stole the show, a squirrel briefly interrupted play in the top of the fourth inning of the Yankees-Twins game.

The squirrel streaked onto the field and charged Twins third baseman Brendan Harris before seeking protection from the rain under the outfield wall.

The squirrel remained on the field as play resumed, running the entirety of the warning track looking for a way out as the crowd chanted "Let's go squirrel!"

Earlier this season, an American Kestrel captivated Twins fans, long accustomed to watching games indoors, by swooping across Target Field, grabbing a moth and devouring it atop the right field foul pole.

[Patty in Wisc]

That's funny! :)

[island cassie]

How about these for pesky critters???

My cashew tree is ripening fruit and nuts, and at night the fruit bats come and gnaw on the apples and spoil them. Any that they knock down or that drop in the night, the rats run off with!! My only solution is to go out each night just before dark and pick any nearly ripe fruit, as they ripen REALLY fast.

The dogs just snore away! What do they think I keep them for?

[Abnshrek]

IC that sounds like me & mockingbirds eating my nectarines & figs.. and where's my dog sleeping. Next year I'm netting them.

[island cassie]

Our tree is in an inconvenient place to net - plus it is full of biting ants!! Grrrr!

[Abnshrek]

plus it is full of biting ants!! Grrrr!

Well I sure wouldn't be messin' with no ants from down there, or the one's in panama.. Or the black palm for that matter.... :^)

[island cassie]

You are right Migael - their bites are bad! But so far we are winning over the critters with lots of nuts and apples.

[Patty in Wisc]

Cassie, I wouldn't want to deal w/some of your critters!!
Shrek, I put netting over my raspberries one year & a couple birds got under it - somehow, & were trapped inside. Never again, & w/ no problems.
I set the trap w/ bait, & last 2 nights (mornings) the bait is gone & trap still set. There are also water lily buds in pieces, scattered & chewed up, & broken leaves in pond. Can't be a squirrel.... could I still have coons? Who's taking my bait & not getting trapped????
Grrrrrrrr

[bananimal]

Patty --- Right after I started using peanut butter, as advised, the whole chunk of it started disappearing overnight. So one night at 1 AM, having forgotten to put out the garbage can (again), went to check the trap in the dark. Flashlight showed a line of aunts carrying off the bait to the nest.

Checked in the AM and it was all gone. Lots of critters here in S Fla seem to do things unexpectedly. My plastic rat traps have a small cup to hold bait. Couldn't figger out how a 4 footed critter could gouge out all that sticky stuff and not trip the trap. Amazing.

Talk about unexpected - -local family woke up to find a 5 ft gator in the pool area. Another real good reason to NEVER leave food or food residue anywhere in the pool enclosure. And that includes all outdoor trash cans.

Dan

[Abnshrek]

Talk about unexpected - -local family woke up to find a 5 ft gator in the pool area. Dan

Well, sounds like the gator is looking to get grilled to me (tastes better than chicken) :^)

[Patty in Wisc]

I had gater chili in FL. Couldn't taste the gater cuz it was way too spicy hot - & I like hot.

[browndrake]

was working in the garden today. Noticed that a red ant hill that has shown up. The ant were all over one of my tomato plants and had pretty much eaten it to the ground. It was one of my Paul Robeson tomatoes, and I only put out a couple dozen of them...so Monday the ants will meet their demise.

aaron

[Patty in Wisc]

Yesterday, I took a chunk of bread & tied fishing line to it ...put pnut butter on & tied it to sides of trap. Put some boric acid around to keep ants off. This a.m. there's ants all over the bait & trap still set. My first pond lily is all chewed up & broken leaves are scattered in pond. I declare another WAR grrrr! I don't see any goldfish either. I have one unripe meyer lemon & if that's gone I'll sit up all night w/ my pellet gun. I thought I got all the coons but I think that's what it is.

[island cassie]

Go Patty!!!

[bananimal]

Patty ---- Sounds like a coon to me too. They get into everything -- plants, fishponds, fruit. You go get 'em. Sounds like I could have used you on point.

BTW --- You mentioned the Meyer lemon. Know anything about the Eureka lemon? Local guru has said that it is the best tasting lemon by far. Thinking of finding a tree for sale. But still haven't tasted the sucker.

Dan

[Patty in Wisc]

Dan, I think Eureka is the same kind we buy in all the grocery stores.
I'm at Mike's house...last night sitting out on deck in back. There's 16 steps going down to yard. A raccoon peeked around the corner at top step & when he saw us he took off. I was wondering who was eating all the grape jelly I put out in eve for the orioles! By morning it's all gone. Mike's buying a trap today & we will use grape jelly for bait LOL
I'm afraid to go home & see more damage --& what's in the trap there.

[Abnshrek]

#176 :^) I think I need to rezero.. I hit to many bumps in my go-go machine.. lol :^)

Well I'm sighted back in with premium ammo #177 and knocked another out of the tree backwards, somehow he crawled back up it.. Definately got lead in duff syndrome.. He'll be slower next time if he don't die in the tree. No recovery, no count.. that's how it goes.. My neighbor says I killed over 200.. lol :^)

[Patty in Wisc]

Shrek, what do you do w/ them? Garbage? There's a fishing lure place that will buy squirrel tails. You could be rich by now LOL.

[Abnshrek]

Shrek, what do you do w/ them? Garbage? There's a fishing lure place that will buy squirrel tails. You could be rich by now LOL.

Well If I could go crabbin' I'd use them as bait, but I give them to a couple neighbors that are retired & want them. :^) Wow I could be rich cause all the skins are on the skinnin' post :^) lol

[Patty in Wisc]

Oh, you skin them & save it? The neighbors cook & eat them?

[Abnshrek]

Oh, you skin them & save it? The neighbors cook & eat them?

The skin goes on the fence next to the skinner. The skinner frees up the hands to get the job done. Its simular to what's depicted below.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=32420 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=32390) :^)

[Abnshrek]

Well I'm sighted back in with premium ammo #177

#178 Knocked him out of the top of 100ft pine tree. :^)

[sbl]

Nice shot--I know how tough that is! I don't have any visiting my yard right now, but as soon as the pecans get big enough, I won't be able to keep them out!.

[sbl]

Well If I could go crabbin' I'd use them as bait, but I give them to a couple neighbors that are retired & want them. :^) Wow I could be rich cause all the skins are on the skinnin' post :^) lol

Yeah, if you still have the tails, you can get about 50 cents apiece from Mepps--that would be almost a $100!

[Abnshrek]

Yeah, if you still have the tails, you can get about 50 cents apiece from Mepps--that would be almost a $100!

Ben Franklin is my friend.. lol :^)

[Abnshrek]

#178 Knocked him out of the top of 100ft pine tree. :^)

I had to resight I missed a bird... #179 hiding in a crook in the tree thinkin' she was low key, she got popped right behind the ear.. :^)

[Patty in Wisc]

Save those tails!!

[Abnshrek]

#179

#180 & #181.. #182 wouldn't fall outta the tree :^)

I saw a Bunny running yesterday w/o a leg? Musta used it as a kick stand.. lol

[Patty in Wisc]

Got raccoon # 24 today. The trap closed on his back foot so I don't know how long he spent trying to get it out. He ate a couple pond lilys before he got trapped though. I'll reset cuz he might have a mate closeby & hopefully they don't have babies!
Thought I got them all....haven't trapped one since August.

[Patty in Wisc]

He sure looked & felt heavy, but only weighed 16 lbs. So big, he wouldn't slide out of trap! I used a plastic bag to grab hold of tail & pull him out.

[Abnshrek]

#180 & #181.. #182 wouldn't fall outta the tree :^)

Well found #182 & #183 I shot yesterday on the 4-wheeler :^)

[Tony O]

I sure hope you killed that coon before you pulled him out of the trap. If not, he WILL be back, and being trap smart, "Good-by Garden", you won't catch him in that trap again.

[hammer]

I,ve killed 4 coons this week one was in my greenhouse. they have found my sweet corn and i am going to win that battle. i startetd baiting coons with cat food and marshmellows it works. last year i got a 37 pounder it was growling at me on my porch.

[Patty in Wisc]

I sure hope you killed that coon before you pulled him out of the trap. If not, he WILL be back, and being trap smart, "Good-by Garden", you won't catch him in that trap again.
Tony, I'd never pull a live coon out of the trap LOL....he'd tear my arm off! I gave him swimming lesson in my pond. When I pulled trap out, I saw that he failed so that's when I emptied trap into 2 plastic bags.
Mike bought a trap & we set it 2 nights ago for the brave coon that came up 16 steps on back deck to eat grape jelly I put out for orioles. He got a swim lesson yesterday in a 55 gal drum full of water (no pond there).
Hammer, 37 lbs is HUGE!!! I got one that was 27 lbs & he took up the whole trap - I could barely lift it!

[Abnshrek]

Ha ha too funny Patty.. My neighbors use to have one of those huge satellite dishes that transitioned into a pond (when it was of no longer use to primary function). Well the squirrels like to get up there and go down in the dish to get a drink but couldn't get out.. So they got self induced swim lessons :^)

[Jack Daw]

Wish I had your problems. My worst garden enemy are very invasive ants. I (and neither anyone on the internet) have found no effective way of dealing with them. And I've tried pretty much everything there is to choose from. :(
At least the raccoons are big and there are not thousands of them. You could start raising and training hunting hawks or eagles. That might solve the problem. :ha:

[Patty in Wisc]

Jack, try boric acid & dust all the ant hills w/ it & pour right on the ants. I get it at the big box stores in garden dept.

[Abnshrek]

Jack, try boric acid & dust all the ant hills w/ it & pour right on the ants. I get it at the big box stores in garden dept.

I use straight concentrated acid and spray the hills and kill tree roots with it.. I can grow grass a couple months later :^)

[Patty in Wisc]

Yesterday on World News, Dianne Sawyer said somewhere in AZ they will build a squirrel bridge costing 1.25 MILLION DOLLARS. She said "that's $5,000 a year per squirrel". She said too many squirrels were getting hit by cars at this crossing so they will build a bridge for them (choke choke). I thought I heard the story wrong but today she said the town in AZ decided to give the 1.25 mill $$$ back to the government & won't build the bridge. Our government really gave that much $$ to them for a frickin SQUIRREL BRIDGE???

[Tony O]

:woohoonaner: :nanadrink: :woohoonaner:

Once again Arizona gets it right.

[bananimal]

Think I'll petition the Port St Lucie city council for funding for a Bob Cat Causeway. One for every major roadway. These big cats really keep the critter population at bay on the Treasure Coast.

The local paper showed another one photographed in a residence backyard in Sebastian.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=32994&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=32994&ppuser=820)

This shot makes me think of the commercial where the vision impaired lady calls the racoon inside to "snuggle with mama". Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.

Dan

[Patty in Wisc]

LOL Dan. Guess I'd rather have a coon than a bobcat hanging out here.
Ha ha ..."here kitty kitty kitty" LOL

[bananimal]

Patty,

The S Fla bobcats leave people alone -- generally. And they usually show themselves just at night. In the 5 years I'm here I saw a racoon only twice. Squirrels are practically nonexistent as well as possum. However, my trapping turned up rats, and I'm gonna keep an eye out for these guys.

Only heard of one incident of a bobcat attack. It bit a guy fixing his car in the driveway. It was daytime - and it was rabid.

Dan

[sunfish]

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=34358&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=34358&ppuser=2868)

SoCal Butterflies: The Gulf Fritillary butterfly (http://www.tdogmom.com/2009/01/gulf-fritillary-butterfly.html)

[Patty in Wisc]

Looks like they're munching up your leaves there!
Thursday I got squirrel # 107 & today I gave a swim lesson to raccoon #25

[bananimal]

Nice going, Patty! I could use some swimming lessons. Never learned how/when to take a breath reliably when doing the Australian crawl all out, like I was taught as a kid.

But not from you!!! lol

Dan

[island cassie]

Fruit bats munching on the cashew apples, and rats eating the melons!! Can't put down poison there for the rats because of the cats and dogs we have, and can't stay out all night with a tennis raquet for the bats! Insect eating bats I don't mind but fruit bats are a pain in the a**! And they poop all over the paths to add insult to injury!

[bananimal]

Hey Cassie - Are your cashew apples of manageble size where tree netting is practical? Most likely they are the Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat, Murcielago Frutero. Being native to the carib and cent america I know they are all over Puerto Rico. Gonna contact some of my wife's many relatives and find out what works for them - if anything.

I see bug eating bats here in S Fla at twilight zipping around and they help keep the bugs down. So does the county spraying program. We have to run in the house when the chimney truck comes thru the area.

Dan

[Patty in Wisc]

raccoon #26 had a swim lesson.

[Patty in Wisc]

Coon #27 today

[Abnshrek]

Coon #27 today

What are you going to do when you catch one up your Ice Cream.. Or better yet a Fuzzy raT? :^)

[Patty in Wisc]

My pellet gun is loaded & at the back door LOL

[justjoan]

Come for a visit to Minnesota Patty and bring that pellet gun, a tree rat got my first tomato that was 1 day out from picking and I found a nice big green one stashed in the top of the pot of my Siam Ruby. If the plants were in the ground or on the ground for that matter I would understand but they are climbing up on to the deck, (no stairs) which is a good 5 ft off the ground, BAH!!! I am so mad!:2141:

[Patty in Wisc]

I hate when they do that! I have 2 big but green ponderosa lemons & several baby kumquats they better leave alone! I'm finding some digging in some pots.

[hammer]

I hate when they do that! I have 2 big but green ponderosa lemons & several baby kumquats they better leave alone! I'm finding some digging in some pots. Last year they got my meyer lemon and my satsuma.

[bananimal]

My Lula Avocado has fruited for the first time this year and they better leave it be. About a dozen fruit are set. Also starting a variegated pink Eureka lemon in a pot to grow it out some before planting. They better leave that alone too.

Man --- it looks like I'd better get me a Kania trap. Have not seen any tree rats for a while in the backyard, but I know they're in the area.

Then there's the friggin ratz! Trapped 3 cotton rats this spring - they live in the undeveloped lots next door.

[Patty in Wisc]

I shot at one up in a tree above my back door other day. He squirmed & kicked & then fell out of tree so I know I hit him, but he ran off.
I gotta put a skirt around bottom of sunroom. I peeked under & saw the insulation & styrofoam nailed to bottom of joists are all ripped up. It's only about 18 inch crawlspace & I'm afraid of coming face to face with the coons that did it! Darn critters!

[Abnshrek]

I gotta put a skirt around bottom of sunroom. I peeked under & saw the insulation & styrofoam nailed to bottom of joists are all ripped up. It's only about 18 inch crawlspace & I'm afraid of coming face to face with the coons that did it! Darn critters!
Oh come on Patty with all them swim lessons you give you must be used to close contact by now. :^) lol

[Patty in Wisc]

That last coon growled & hissed at me when I picked up the trap - scared the bejeebers outa me! None of the others ever growled.
Shot squirrel 108 up in neighbors tree

[zoloff]

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=35032&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=35032&ppuser=5713)LOTS OF THESE GUYS AROUND THIS YEAR, BY THE LOOK OF THINGS THERE WILL BE MORE NEXT YEAR!:waving:

[bananimal]

Hello Les,

The Japanese beetle -- had a lot of problems with them when I lived in Charlotte, NC. Here in So Fla have not seen a single one. In NC had 2 river birch and 1 white birch trees planted to shade the deck. The little tree alligators attacked in force. Sprayed systemic insecticides with a hose end tree sprayer and it afforded a measure of control. Far from the garden and the bananas. The trees kept growing, but slowly.

Three years later the little buggers disappeared - never came back. A local grower told me they show up when new trees to the area are planted, and then lose interest. Sounded preoposterous, right. He was right! Never saw them again for the rest of the 12 years I lived there. The birches were huge when we moved to Fla.

Dan

[Patty in Wisc]

Yesterday morning, I noticed someything took the bait. Mike woke me at 5:30 cuz a racoon in trap was maKING a LOT of noise. No bait - again. This one was a very loud baby. #28

[Patty in Wisc]

coon # 29 yesterday

[Abnshrek]

The more you get now the less that can eat your nanners later :^)

[Patty in Wisc]

Last wkend got squirrel #111.
Yesterday I saw raccoon poop in the garden ...EEEEEEEK. Put a bigger chunk of bread w/ more PB on in trap....today, bait is gone & trap untriggered. There is still at least 1 coon around. All I have to do is look at the crawlspace under sunroom...the insulation & styrofoam sheets I nailed onto floor joists is ripped down, & I will fix it & put a skirt around it to evict those damned critters!

[justjoan]

Well I think we should right a book, Last week on Saturday I went out on the deck and just below it the neighborhood Hawk had a pigeon for breakfast, feathers everywhere.
When I got home yesterday there was the resident Hawk about 6 feet to the left of tree where my bird feeder hangs pouncing on another pigeon and hanging from the feeder merrily feasting on the contents was that @#!!!#% squirrel. I stepped into the garage for a moment and then back out to see further developments and the Hawk had pounced the pigeon just to the left of the tree within a foot of the base and that squirrel was still chomping away with the Hawk at the base. :2141:

[Patty in Wisc]

Glue some feathers on that squirrel :)

[justjoan]

GOod One:woohoonaner:

[Patty in Wisc]

coon #30

[Patty in Wisc]

Bagged squirrel #113 & I missed on the shot at 114. They go crazy this time of year (& spring) digging up potted plants.

[Patty in Wisc]

-Yesterday got coon #31. It's becoming work, but when I went to pick my concord grapes-- which I checked on last week..& ready to pick lots this week, they were all gone! Half of them were on the ground all smushed. I had no problem giving this one a swim lesson!!
I got 3 grapes that they left for me.

[justjoan]

That would kill me, oh the loss of all that fruit, have you ever had a concord grape pie, fussy to make but worth every bite! Darn critters!!!!

[Patty in Wisc]

I'll take you up on that recipe -- next year. I'll even send you a pie!

[bananimal]

Joan ----- Please give us that recipe. I'm crazy for everything concord grape!

Patty ---- You could make a tiny turnover with those 3 grapes. I'm still wating for my 4 muscadines to produce.

Dan

[Patty in Wisc]

Squirrel # 114 (or is it 115?) today. I cut up some red serrano peppers from the garden & scattered pieces of them in several pots ... it seems to be working!!!! Hardley any pot soil dug up. They hate HOT PEPPER. It's working.

[hammer]

Patty heres your cure for your coon problem this walker hound is grand night champion he is 8 months old. ive had him for a week.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37310&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37310&ppuser=3875)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37309&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37309&ppuser=3875)

[bananimal]

Shannon,

Make sure to post pics of him when he is full grown. Has a good big nose like my Labrador, Chloe. He's a beaut!!!

Dan

[Patty in Wisc]

That's a pretty dog...looks like a beagle. Would he mind staying outside all night? LOL
I came home Monday to find the squirrel in trap was dead & the trap was moved. Something tried to grab it to eat it, & the only thing that would do that is a possum. I don't think I trapped one this year. I reset trap w/ a piece of pork & there was a possum in it next morning.

[hammer]

That's a pretty dog...looks like a beagle. Would he mind staying outside all night? LOL
I came home Monday to find the squirrel in trap was dead & the trap was moved. Something tried to grab it to eat it, & the only thing that would do that is a possum. I don't think I trapped one this year. I reset trap w/ a piece of pork & there was a possum in it next morning.He would not stay out all night he sleeps at the foot of my bed hes a big baby. sounds like you have alot of prolblems with those critters.

[bananimal]

Patty,

Did you get a Kania trap yet? Research shows it's awesome for tree ratz. If you modified it a little so the bait is placed further back in the trap it might get some coons too! Except for the fat headed 100 lb ones!

Dan

[Patty in Wisc]

No Kanya. Isn't that one that also kills the critter? It might save me the time & headache of giving those swim lessons LOL

[bananimal]

That's Kania with an i. Website is kania.net

As they say stops them dead in their tracks.

Check it out.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37373&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37373&ppuser=820)

[Jack Daw]

Any solid advice how to kill or forever get rid of moles? They are seriously tearing my lawn apart! Thanks guys...

[chong]

Patty heres your cure for your coon problem this walker hound is grand night champion he is 8 months old. ive had him for a week.
...............]

Very nice looking dog! Like Patty said, he looks like a Beagle. Are Walker Hounds related to the Beagle? Are they bigger or smaller? We had a Beagle and he was a bundle of energy. Then he just disappeared. One day we came home and he was gone. We don't know how he managed to get out, but he was gone.

[hammer]

He is a walkerhound, a mix between a foxhound and a bloodhound. His dad is Grand Knight Champion 5 years in a row and his mother won National Champion. He come from great blood and loves to hunt, but I dont hunt and the wife has made him a big baby.:waving:
They are not related to a beagle and they are much bigger. Sorry to hear about your dog, the people that we got Haas from has a 4 month old puppy from the same blood line that needs a good home if you are looking. They are willing to give him to a good home. He has also been hunting and is great at treeing the coons. He has the same papers that our dog has. AKC, UKC and one other one that I cant think of off the top of my head.

[Patty in Wisc]

I love Beagles but they are prone...more than any other breed, to run away. A neighbor was walking his & it saw a rabbit & took off...got off the leash. We helped him chase it down & we got him back.
My son had a book on dogs & their behaviour & I do remember reading that about beagles. Hopefully Chong, someone adopted your dog into a loving home.
Make sure you have a tag on him/her w/ your ph # in case your dog is found, or have a chip implanted.
I just had a couple ring my doorbell this eve asking if I saw their cat. They showed a pic & have it posted on poles around. I hopr they get it back. Maybe it'll get in my live trap LOL...if it does, of course I'll save the cat for them! I really do love animals!

[Patty in Wisc]

Got possum #14 2 weeks ago & this week got squirrels #115, 116 & 117.

[Patty in Wisc]

Possum #15... a big one. Only 2 possum all this year.

[bananimal]

Here he is sittin under the xformer just waiting for me to take off. Got too many garden veggies doing well right now. Gotta start the trap and peanut butter thing again.

Patty - where are you when I need you! :ha:

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38063&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38063&ppuser=820)