This morning while hiking. All by himself. No shit. Carried her 50 yards to show me.
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Sure he didn’t find it dead? 
Nice kill! Make him some jerky treats!
I watched him run her down but the actual kill was out of my sight
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Very impressive! I’ve heard of similar happenings. The closest I’ve come to witnessing something similar was when my chow chow chased one of my goats for about 1/8 mile. The goat lost steam, the chow caught up, the goat turned on a dime, stood her ground, and got a lucky belly shot on the dog. Akira never did care to “play” with the goats after that.
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This is not good, it would be legal for some one to shoot your dog if some one saw that in progress, at least here in NY. I suppose it happens all the time but just watch out for him.
It will be fine.
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When I lived in New England it was a commonly accepted practice to shoot dogs engaged in such activity. Then again, in New England during hunting season it is common practice to shoot anything that moves, whether it be blaze orange or not.
Here in MI, only the DNR can shoot deer chasing dogs. WI is the same.
Yeah, shooting someones deer dog down here will get you a lot of trouble, legal and “Next of Kin” style.
Now if he could only skin and quarter it.
Was he trained to hunt? I mean, I know dogs have a inherent ability to ability to hunt but was there any training? Especially since he was alone.
I have always wondered what my GSD mix would do if it came to bigger game (outside of squirrels and rabbits) because he is so nice.
No, he’s got some protection training but that’s it. High prey drive, and aggressive when needs be but great with kids
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That is what dogs do.
Precisely.
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That’s awesome! Around here no one would care. I’d definitely skin it and get as much meat as possible. That would be great eating!
That. is. awesome.
My other dog Morgan (half lab half wimer), nearly did that earlier this year, but I called him off. He’s got a super high prey drive. Can’t have him around any cats or smaller animals what-so-ever, without supervision or else he’ll be dragging back a carcase.
I was eyeing that backstrap but there was a chance of other hikers coming around…
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Buddy is a magnificent looking dog. I hope he gives you and your family a long life of service, companionship, entertainment and all those things only dogs can do for us. Your story made me recall this one that happened to a good friend about 4 years ago.
This is my buddy, his 36 pound 1/4 Jack Russel 3/4 Boykin, and her kill. She has taken countless rabbits, squirrels, moles, etc…but this was her largest quarry. This is his account of the story;
“I’ll have to post the extended story when I find the time, but this is the synopsis: Maple jumped this deer, chased it through a field, through a briar thicket, into a pond, swam 100 yards+ through the pond chasing it and then caught it on the bank. I dispatched it with my knife. One deer with no gun, just Maple. I cooked the tenderloins for her, I thought she deserved them.”
That’s too bad. Nacho deserved to eat well for a few days for the effort.
Agreed.
I would think with the overpopulation of deer in most places, no one would care if a dog takes down a deer. Especially a small doe.