On Wednesday we did a short walk in the forest. Alfie stayed in this time, but Eddie & Otto joined me. The boys we running as usual and when we were very close home I could hear them barking heavily. I thought there’s some local dog that they had met.
When I arrived to the place of heavy barking I saw an elk attacking Otto!
Otto is an old dog with bad legs so he was laying in the ground and the elk was hitting him with his front legs. I started to make a lot of noise so that the elk would run away. Instead it seem quite provoked. It started to approach me and I went behind a tree calling Eddie who was quite close to the elk.
Finally the elk left. During this time I tried to take a videotape with my mobile phone but could not press the correct buttons as I was a bit scared about Otto. My first priority was to get the elk away from Otto who was laying in the ground trying to get up.
After this incident Otto was not able to get up so I called his owner and said that Otto was attacked by an elk. He was surprised and repeated “by an elk?”. We were planning for him to come over to the forest with a sledge so that we could take Otto home. We weren’t that far away from home but I did not want to leave Otto alone.
Before the owner came to the forest Otto finally got up and started to “walk”. At first he was dragging his hind legs but managed finally walking.
Otto is now fine and I guess the elk managed mostly to scare him.
Wednesday evening was my day 3/3 of the hunting course and I asked the instructor if it is common for an elk to attack a dog. It is not. He said that the dog got too close to the elk and irritated the elk. Normally they do not mind dogs at all.
Here is a video clip of the place afterwards when I went to see if the elk is still close by. Eddie was following the elk track so cleanly and made me very proud.
First I would like to welcome Michelle & the “bad” boys. It is good to have you here too.
Today on our forest walk the boys had a bit of disagreement who can eat the guts of a deer. This has been just shot today (wasn’t there yesterday). Sharing the guts would be too much to ask
So here is a shot video of the boys trying to figure out who is the man. It was quite dark already during our walk so the quality of the video isn’t the best.
By the way; I applied for a hunting course and was accepted. This will be in February 17-19, 4 hours each day followed by exam.
I also applied for my employer’s hunting club (eg company club) and you need to have passed the test in order to join the club. Anyway I applied already informing about upcoming course.
Now I need to start learning about laws, different kind of games, shooting etc. Wish me luck!
On our first walk this year we bumped into blood. The end of elk / moose hunting season was 31.12 so there was one that was shot very close to our home before the season ended.
If you are very sensitive, then please do not click the link to the video. But if you are interested in hunting in general, the please have a look.
I think it was good for my boys to see that and smell all the blood.
Eddie found something very yummy from there and on our way back he took something with him. At 4 AM next morning I had to clean it up from the living room mat as he could not digest that (it was his second time of vomiting it and the best time to do that is when people are sleeping). Apparently it was too strong for him. Otto was here too and he had some of it from the kitchen floor and did not vomit it (he eats lots of stuff anyway so he has a very strong tummy).
But the smell in the house was not too lovely afterwards even I cleaned several times and even used vinegar which is good for smells. I had to take the two mats outside.
Here’s Eddie enjoying his organic gourmet.
We had a nice over 10 km walk in the forest (or I did, the boys mostly run).
