Wife and I just spent the last 10 days up in the Mountains of North Carolina.... did get up to close to 80 yesterday... but the rest of the time the high might have been 75 and the low in the morning 60. This was just east of Franklin N.C. and dead smack down in a holler 30 minutes or more from everywhere.....
Took our two dogs and the first couple of days were an adventure... (mostly a learning experience for me)... house we rented was advertised as pet friendly and the owner said it was fenced in... what he did not disclose or realize was that it was fenced in for cows and lazy dogs.... first night we were there our 35lb fox hound Tally slipped past me and took off.... she was 1/4 mile away in about a minute on a run after something... how do I know this other than the sound she was making? Well I was semi smart and had put a GPS tracking collar on her before we went in the gate and on the property.... I got in the car drove down the road and then got out and crossed a 300 yard pasture and finally found her back in the woods....
Next day the owner shows up and we take a roll of fencing and cover the cow gates and one spot in the fence down by the "crick.." She, 'Tally' was good for the rest of the day.... then first light I let her out and she is gone again... seems she followed the sent of something that had slipped under the fence in another spot down by the creek. This time it took me two hours of traveling around the dern mountain after her... she would be dong her cry and after something in one direction and by the time I got within a 100 yards of her she'd be 300 yards off in another direction..... So, I worked not the fence some more that afternoon and got it in better shape... then the next day the wife and I took her into another pasture to check out the pond there and did not realize there was another gate that was open up over the hill..
Off she goes up the mountain and around the same places she was he day before... but I got smart... I just sat on the bank at the bottom of the road up and watched her on the GPS tracking receiver I have... and after about 30 minutes here she comes...... happy as can be to see me.
I think there was at least one other time in all that where she got out but now it is all kind of muddled... Had two different couples come up and join us for a few days and it was a great time....
Here's a picture of the place we stayed I took with my drone: (white dot to the left of the red car is me)
And here is a picture of me with the little trouble maker:
Took our two dogs and the first couple of days were an adventure... (mostly a learning experience for me)... house we rented was advertised as pet friendly and the owner said it was fenced in... what he did not disclose or realize was that it was fenced in for cows and lazy dogs.... first night we were there our 35lb fox hound Tally slipped past me and took off.... she was 1/4 mile away in about a minute on a run after something... how do I know this other than the sound she was making? Well I was semi smart and had put a GPS tracking collar on her before we went in the gate and on the property.... I got in the car drove down the road and then got out and crossed a 300 yard pasture and finally found her back in the woods....
Next day the owner shows up and we take a roll of fencing and cover the cow gates and one spot in the fence down by the "crick.." She, 'Tally' was good for the rest of the day.... then first light I let her out and she is gone again... seems she followed the sent of something that had slipped under the fence in another spot down by the creek. This time it took me two hours of traveling around the dern mountain after her... she would be dong her cry and after something in one direction and by the time I got within a 100 yards of her she'd be 300 yards off in another direction..... So, I worked not the fence some more that afternoon and got it in better shape... then the next day the wife and I took her into another pasture to check out the pond there and did not realize there was another gate that was open up over the hill..
Off she goes up the mountain and around the same places she was he day before... but I got smart... I just sat on the bank at the bottom of the road up and watched her on the GPS tracking receiver I have... and after about 30 minutes here she comes...... happy as can be to see me.
I think there was at least one other time in all that where she got out but now it is all kind of muddled... Had two different couples come up and join us for a few days and it was a great time....
Here's a picture of the place we stayed I took with my drone: (white dot to the left of the red car is me)
And here is a picture of me with the little trouble maker:
