Odin and last Friday

So I haven't written much about Odie as of late, but he is still here and still very much the baby even with the rescued puppy and Baby Elizabeth around. He just claimed them as his (this means the other dogs are not allowed to go near them) and then is still determined to be the baby of the house. He's very vocal about it.

Some back ground then on Odin,

he's a hunter and catches birds out of the air.

he catches grass hoppers and eats them,

he loves to chase the cats.

he fetches naturally with out being taught,

he loves to go in the truck and will stay in there for how ever long you are going (even to the detriment of his health we have to physically remove him in the heat)

he jumps like a deer.

he talks and actually tells you no when he doesn't want to do something
he's one of the most beautiful dogs I have ever seen.

he has one blue eye and one blue and brown eye

He's very intelligent (almost to intelligent for his own good)

that being said

Odin can never be let of leash without being in an enclosed area as if something comes by that sets of his hunting instinct he is gone and he will not come back.

We do not have a fenced yard so when Odin was 7 months old we purchased an electronic fence with a collar and he has done very well with is as long as we remember to turn it on.

Now to Friday Odin has been so good with his collar (we had actually turned the setting down on his collar) that we have become quite complacent about him being outside without being watched every minute.

Now the other part of the puzzle is we have a herd of deer who all summer have been wondering through our property. Ever since the kids started the fire in the gulch in front of our house the grass that's has grown there is very tall and very green and the deer love it so much there willing to cross through Odins territory to get to it.

On Friday morning Odin had been out all morning and I had checked on him from time to time but at 9;30 when i went out he was gone! now he has gotten away before (chasing the deer is just to much for him) but he has come back with in just a small amount of time

On this particular day I called and called and waited and no Odie Finally by 10:30 I called Mitch and he came home and we looked and looked and no Odie anywhere.

I was a little freaked, usually when he hears the 01 Dodge he comes running, we even drove it up and down the gulch and that didn't bring him back. I called the dog catcher to see if maybe she had picked him up and he was in Jail, and she hadn't seen him.

So we spent the next 3 hours looking everywhere. needless to say we couldn't find him.

On our property the gulch runs to west of us and has running water in it year around lots of grasses and vegetation and there are a all kinds of wildlife. We have even had beavers come up and chew the trees.

It runs for probably 60 miles and only in a few places does the road run along it so he actually could of been anywhere for 60 miles. My biggest worry was somebody would shoot him because he looks mean and that's what people do around here to dogs running wild.

Needless to say he did finally come back on his own, and now he is grounded. We have turned up his collar and he has to be watched a lot more closely at least until the deer move to their next spot.