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So, yesterday we took the boys (Steve who is 3 and the Fuzz who is 5 months) out to the bush to play in the snow. We are a really outdoorsy family, so Fuzzy will be doing this a lot. Fuzzy and Steve were romping all over the place, when Fuzzy suddenly got very focused, paved around for a while, and then dug up the lower part of a deer leg- it was under over 1 1/2 feet of snow! He was pretty proud of his find, and we had a nostalgic moment thinking about our bridge-boy Sonny who was a 'Grade A' carcus-hound. Then we made him surrender his prize and we loaded back into the truck and headed home. Unbeknownst to me, Fuzzy's Daddy smuggled the deer leg home for him and threw it in the back yard !?? (we live in a nice neighbourhood- what the neighbours will say, I don't know)!!? Fuzzy consumed ALL the deer leg- only thing left is the bone- and I only found out about it when he tried to smuggle it in the house this morning! Note to self (again) don't just grab anything that's in his mouth- the little bugger has now made me grab a frozen dead squirrel and a deer leg- bone!! Before I even had a cup of coffee! Anyways, he now is pretty subdued- giving every appearance on 'sleeping it off' ( I felt similarly after Christmas dinner). But I'm curious to know if anyone else has had something like this happen? I would imagine his tummy is probably upset, so out comes the canned pumpkin.... This is what comes of marrying a farm-boy, lol:);) Dog Canidae Snow Carnivore Dog breed


So gross.


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My boy Jess is from a rare breed , the " garbage hound". He can sniff out something quite a distance away. We've found dead seals( nice for rolling in) and raccoons, crow skeletons, but so far no deer legs. I always have to be one step ahead of him but it's a constant worry. Hope Fuzzy is feeling OK.
 
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I have no experience on this, but my guess is that Fuzzy will be just fine. Maybe just keep an eye on him for a day or two.

It is a pretty funny story. I'm sure Fuzzy felt like quite a mighty hunter, with his "find." :D
 
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That's so cute, I am remember years ago my Barnaby bringing back a rabbits head, he was so pround, my boy could find a bone in the gobi desert! Hope your boy's tummy is ok.
 
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That's a good fine...any Golden would agree with that.;) What always amazed me with my bridge girl Sammie was how she always managed to come up with a tennis ball in the most remote of places and I mean remote.:)

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Ben found an old deer leg when we were hiking. He was so proud (and a bit possessive) of it. He would run ahead, lie down and chew madly until we caught up, then he'd run ahead again, lie down, and chomp some more. He carried that big bone for about 3-4 miles, then dropped it accidentally in a big pool of muddy water and couldn't find it again. He was so disappointed, but I was just as happy not to be bringing it home with us.
 
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Jack is a great bird hunter & fisherdog only problem is their already dead LOL. He rolls in them first & if I don't catch him he eats them.My Grandfather always said cook a seagull & a brick at the same time & the brick will be easier to chew & taste better.Jack doesn't agree!I paniced about the bones the first time but now I just try watch closer.
 
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So. Fuzzy puked up a bit of bone and two deer toes this morning (2am), and now has some mild runs. I gave Hubby a talking to about bone splinters, blockages, and internal bleeding that had him awake for the rest of the night holding his little puppy and watching him sleep (Fuzzy is eating/drinking/behaving normally, has no blood in his stool, abdomen is not distended/tender or anything- totally normal except that he burped up some bone and toes, and has the runs). We're keeping an eye on him, but unless something changes, I think he'll be fine. However, Hubby can do with a good scare to teach him to LISTEN to me sometimes! Sheesh. Thank goodness puppy is by all apperances fine- but I will certainly be keeping an eye on him!!
 
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This is so funny! We were walking Chase with a friend and her dog the other day and she was telling us how she saw a deer leg the other day but couldn't find it with the snow we just had and all of a sudden we look down and her dog had it in his mouth! We ended up taking it away from him but he was very interested in it that's for sure! :)


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My extended family are avid deer hunters and dog lovers. They are very careful not to feed any of their dogs venison bones, meat or scraps of any kind as chasing deer in season puts them in danger from other hunters. In particular this applies to yellow labs and GR's.

Please be careful of allowing your dogs to associate deer scent with food.
 
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So. We are visiting inlaws at the farm this weekend and our Fuzzy puppy has proven to us that he can find disgusting stuff anywhere, and that he'll eat anything! It's been two days, but he's eaten horse manure, found another dead squirrel in the bush and managed to eat its head before we could get it from him, an old dead starling, dug up some kind of frozen beetle that he lived eating, consumed a bunch of lint from the vacuum cleaner, got into the old compost bin (that upset his tummy) and has forced down several pieces of tree bark. He got up six times between 11pm and 7 am to poop! We're going to have to keep him in a giant hamster-ball I think....


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Our beloved Kodiak's "sniff-out" skills never ceased to amaze us. Even in deep snow, he would find and dig out his favorite buried toys, his lacrosse balls. More amazing to me, we could make a snowball, throw it into deep powder snow where there appeared no sign of entry, and Kodiak would find the darn snowball and retrieve it none the worse for wear. Grand memories as we grieve the recent loss of our best friend, Kodiak.
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So sorry to see your darling is gone! That's the one thing that really makes me wonder about continuing with goldens- their lifespan is just to short! We lost our beautiful, amazing, smart, stinky, funny first golden retriever Sonny on October 12/12, he had just turned 5 and was gone just out of the blue one day. Reading on here, I've seen that's not all that uncommon, unfortunately:(. But even older goldens seem to leave at about 10 to 12 years old, and that's just not long enough! Before Sonny, my shortest-lived dog was 15 years, and my longest was 18!

So sorry to hear of your loss:(. Getting our Fuzzy has really helped us and our surviving golden boy Steve. Is that something that you think might help you also?

Here's a pic of our beloved Sonny ( on the left) 4 days before he suddenly left us.

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