squirl tales

[charlie cleveland]

left the house at 2.00 pm took my little jack russel thats just begun to tree and the old 10 ga...we had gone about 50 steps into the woods and set down on the ground little dog just decided to set by me all at once them ears went straight up and them eyes were really moving...daisey had spotted a big gray on the ground..that gray jumped up on the tree and started barking at us daisey the dog was not moving a muscle just real tense...the squirl moved on up the tree and daisey had lost interest in the squirl so i got up and tried to locate that squirl where he went is anybody guess...moved about another hundred yards and set down we seen 3 more squirls. daisey seen all the squirls running but never gave chase or barked...daiseys hunting buddy was killed and eaten by coyotes last year she was the main hunting dog and daisey had treed 4 squirls on her own last end of season..so far this year she onlytreed one on her own...she seems to still be interested but she stays by my side or behind me while walking as the leaves are about off here i hope to be able to shoot a few out to her hoping shell get back in the groove.. anybody got any suggestions and no she aint gunshy.... charlie