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[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

She is also a great bird dog, although an unsupervised one. Last month she got out of the fence and ran away....came home carrying a duck. (Where in the world did she find a duck??)

Our vizsla used to come home with dead pheasants all the time (we never tied him up - this was in a somewhat rural area). I wondered how he caught them so I followed him one day. He caught the scent and went into the classic pointing posture. He would very slowly inch forward and after about ten minutes he was right on top of it. When the bird finally took off he lept into the air and caught it in his mouth. Perhaps Goldie did the same thing.

We had another dog that was half wolf. We kept him chained up because he had a tendency to bite strangers. He got away once and came back with the head of a sheep. Oops. Another time he came back with a face full of porcupine quills. It was always an adventure.