Coon Dog in Tree Rescue

rbreesems

rbreesems

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I am a lurker here since I am a rec climber that does cat rescue, and I find great tips here. But yesterday, I had a very unusual rescue that I thought that I would share. I had to rescue a coon dog stuck 30 ft up a tree, very weird. I am just wondering if anybody else here has had to rescue a dog from a tree. The dog was in a tree leaning at 20 degrees from vertical and fallen into another tree. Both trees were live. My tie-in point was in the non-leaning tree at about 50 ft; went above the dog, then trunk walked down leaning tree to dog. Made a makeshift harness from webbing loops and lowered him. Dog was in the woods in a WMA, me and owner carried gear 600 yards to get to him. You have to zoom in on the picture to see him since he is a black dog, you can see his nose sticking out in the sunlight. The link below has another picture that is post rescue with dog + owner.

BTW, climbing setup is Bulldog bone + Cougar Gray + Haas.

The full write up is at:

https://sites.google.com/site/kittytreerescuems/home/rescues/bawlie_december2015

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Coon Dog Owner in tree !

I posted this previously, but here it is again ...........

Back in the mid-1960's I worked at a YMCA as a lifeguard / locker-room attendant.
We had a local fireman that came in to lift weights. He's biceps were bigger than my thighs.

As a coon dog hunter, he would train his dogs by going out at night to let his dogs chase coons.
When they treed one, he put on very heavy leather, electrical gloves, with gauntlets.
He would climb the tree, grab the coon, & drop it to the ground for the dogs to chase again.
Do NOT try this ! They are nasty when cornered !

P.S. I like to cook. My coon tastes like dark meat turkey. Good stuff !
 
Treezybreez said:
The link you give doesn't seem to work. That is one dedicated pooch. I think you need to teach the dog safer climbing technique.
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Thanks, fixed now, should have tested it. The owner said the he was going to have to work to teach the dog to stay out of the tree!
 
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GregManning said:
Coon Dog Owner in tree !

I posted this previously, but here it is again ...........

Back in the mid-1960's I worked at a YMCA as a lifeguard / locker-room attendant.
We had a local fireman that came in to lift weights. He's biceps were bigger than my thighs.

As a coon dog hunter, he would train his dogs by going out at night to let his dogs chase coons.
When they treed one, he put on very heavy leather, electrical gloves, with gauntlets.
He would climb the tree, grab the coon, & drop it to the ground for the dogs to chase again.
Do NOT try this ! They are nasty when cornered !

P.S. I like to cook. My coon tastes like dark meat turkey. Good stuff !
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Before I climbed, the dog owner told me that there was probably a coon den right where the leaning tree touched the straight tree, and you could see the hollow opening from the ground. I asked him if he thought that the coon was still in there, and he said 'probably not'. When I got up there, I was face to face with that hollow when I put a lanyard around the tree, and I was hoping like anything that his 'probably not' was correct!
 
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