The Coopinator was squealing and bouncing at the back door so I let him.
Halfway across the yard I figured out what he was after... There was
a squirrel back by the willow tree.

The arrogant treerat waited until Cooper was almost on top of him before
starting his getaway and it was almost his undoing. Cooper ran up the
vertical tree trunk after him and made it a good 15 feet before he fell off.

"Kathleen" wrote in message
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The Coopinator was squealing and bouncing at the back door so I let him.
Halfway across the yard I figured out what he was after... There was a
squirrel back by the willow tree.

The arrogant treerat waited until Cooper was almost on top of him before
starting his getaway and it was almost his undoing. Cooper ran up the
vertical tree trunk after him and made it a good 15 feet before he fell
off.



And he'll probably get better. He'll figure out the speed and weight pushes
him up the trunk.

I'd appreciate if you could bring him by after he's perfected his technique.
Jake is just too slow to ever catch a squirrel, and I don't think he's smart
enough to trick one.

They are all over the place here, and I'm still mad at them over the
homesteading in my attic thing three years ago.

Oh, and my tree trunks are gnarly oak, slanted. Easy deal.

Karla

"Kathleen" wrote in message:

The arrogant treerat waited until Cooper was almost on top of him before
starting his getaway and it was almost his undoing.

That sounds like the one that used to bait Khan. He'd wait until Khan would
pass by on his morning walk, drop down from the tree right in front of him,
and run like hell. Then one time, we saw that he had lost part of his tail.
Then, we didn't see him anymore. He probably tried this with the wrong dog.

Cooper ran up the
vertical tree trunk after him and made it a good 15 feet before he fell
off.

Methinks you need trees with branches lower to the ground. And a camera at
the ready.

Suja

filly wrote:
"Kathleen" wrote in message
...

The Coopinator was squealing and bouncing at the back door so I let him.
Halfway across the yard I figured out what he was after... There was a
squirrel back by the willow tree.

The arrogant treerat waited until Cooper was almost on top of him before
starting his getaway and it was almost his undoing. Cooper ran up the
vertical tree trunk after him and made it a good 15 feet before he fell
off.




And he'll probably get better. He'll figure out the speed and weight pushes
him up the trunk.

I'd appreciate if you could bring him by after he's perfected his technique.
Jake is just too slow to ever catch a squirrel, and I don't think he's smart
enough to trick one.

They are all over the place here, and I'm still mad at them over the
homesteading in my attic thing three years ago.

Oh, and my tree trunks are gnarly oak, slanted. Easy deal.

I think it'd be kind of cool to have a tree-climbing dog, although I can
imagine that's one of those things where it might be wise to be careful
what I wish for.

Last year my daughter had to identify, describe and photgraph 25 native
tree species, including an object for scale in each photo. Every one of
her classmates used a yardstick. She used Scully. The first picture
was of Scully, sitting next to a yardstick, documenting that from ground
to ear tip, she was exactly 24" tall. Measurements were given in "scullys".

We went up to a local park to find more specimens. The squirrels there
have grown fat and brave. They'll eat out of your hand if you sit still
for a minute. And evidently, one of them was offended by Scully's
presence. He followed her from tree to tree, scolding and chattering.
He almost miscalculated, though. She finally got sick of it and
launched herself at him and actually pulled a tuft of fur off the tip of
his tail.

Her botany teacher loved her project, laughed his butt off at the
pictures and measurement units. He shared it with the rest of the
science department and requested permission to keep it as an example of
a top-notch project that was creative and funny and still absolutely
accurate.

Suja wrote:

"Kathleen" wrote in message:


The arrogant treerat waited until Cooper was almost on top of him before
starting his getaway and it was almost his undoing.


That sounds like the one that used to bait Khan. He'd wait until Khan would
pass by on his morning walk, drop down from the tree right in front of him,
and run like hell. Then one time, we saw that he had lost part of his tail.
Then, we didn't see him anymore. He probably tried this with the wrong dog.


Cooper ran up the
vertical tree trunk after him and made it a good 15 feet before he fell

off.

Methinks you need trees with branches lower to the ground. And a camera at
the ready.

I wish I'd had a camcorder. It was one of those Roadrunner cartoon
moments, where the coyote runs off the edge of a cliff and doesn't fall
'til he looks down.

"Kathleen" wrote:

I think it'd be kind of cool to have a tree-climbing dog, although I can
imagine that's one of those things where it might be wise to be careful
what I wish for.

Just remember that a dog which climbs trees may also climb fences, walls,
shelves, etc.

I have a whole sequence of photos of Rocsi climbing into a tree to
retrieve a ball... will have to upload them to Flickr one of these days.
They were taken just a couple of months before she died, which is why I
didn't get around to it at the time....




Last year my daughter had to identify, describe and photgraph 25 native
tree species, including an object for scale in each photo. Every one of
her classmates used a yardstick. She used Scully. The first picture was
of Scully, sitting next to a yardstick, documenting that from ground to
ear tip, she was exactly 24" tall. Measurements were given in "scullys".

I love it!

"Kathleen" wrote in message
...
The Coopinator was squealing and bouncing at the back door so I let him.
Halfway across the yard I figured out what he was after... There was a
squirrel back by the willow tree.

The arrogant treerat waited until Cooper was almost on top of him before
starting his getaway and it was almost his undoing. Cooper ran up the
vertical tree trunk after him and made it a good 15 feet before he fell
off.


LOL wish I could have seen that.