Thread: Wild dogs - Discussion

We had them in the Raukumaras this year. We were having a sleep in and it would have been 630 when in my sleep I heard a dog yodelling. Kind of the classic worried pup, like when your young pig dog gets lost with the older dogs.
I kept out of bed and poked my head in my mates tent to make sure his mut was in there. Mates thought I'd give nuts. We had about 8 legs hanging in a tree so thought we'd check in case they were looking for that when I heard it again. Rushed out to the river bed and here was two dogs travelling up stream.
We were beyond were you can horse too and the choppers had only us in the region.
I lined up on other the leader and noted they weren't in bad nic and that the second one was about 1 Yr Old. The old girl looked straight down at me and I knew I couldn't pull the trigger. They carried on upstream and we never saw them again. Strangely they never touched a deer carcass just upstream.

Told a mate about it and he'd had one come into camp a couple years before at the same spot which then wouldn't leave. They ended up flying it out with them.

I feel sorry for the poor buggers