Thank you all - like Brenda said it is one I will never forget.
We should have been out again today but I was told I couldn't take Ekko because Inca is in season!
We were invited to go pigeon shooting this afternoon instead but the pigeons thought otherwise and didn't come anywhere near. We ended up with two crows and a jackdaw. The first crow Ekko was sent for was a runner! Every time she tried to pick him up he attacked her so she barked at him a few times before she managed to get him. (Good job it was a real shooting day and not a field trial) All the way back he was still trying! Her second one luckily was dead.
Do you often send your dogs for wounded corvids? Personally I would be wary due to them pecking at the eyes of the dog. Just a personal thing but when out shooting crows I would much rather give them a second barrel than send my dog. My potlickers won't retrieve the damn things anyway........
Barry. _________________ "Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them.
It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu.
But I think it's Colin."
The only one she has had before was a jackdaw which we didn't realise had run when it was being looked for. We couldn't see it as it was shot before the wheat had been cut. I could see her retching as she came back to me with the second one - it really must have tasted horrible.
Hi Karen,
I would `echo' what Barry has said, corvids have a natural draw to `eyes' ( Ask any sheep farmer ) its not worth the risk IMO, at the very least it teaches a dog to `bite down'.
Teal'q gave me a scare yesterday when he was `busy with something in the grass, I went over to investigate only to find him picking up a 1m long snake, he's done this before with grass snakes, but I doubt if he can tell the difference between an adder and a grass snake So its not to be encouraged, I don't fancy carrying him home...let alone the vet bill
Peter
I could see her retching as she came back to me with the second one - it really must have tasted horrible.
I used to have a pet jackdaw believe it or not "jackie" was his name, original I know. Jackie stunk to high heaven so god knows what a jackdaw must taste like to a dog...........just writing this reminds me of Jackies unique odour..........very smelly but he became a local celebrity for all the wrong reasons landing on young school kids heads - he was just being friendly and saying hello. I think the local newspaper headline was something like MAD CROW ATTACKS SCHOOL KIDS !!
Sadly Jackie was run over on the road outside my house in 1988, it broke my heart To this day I refuse to shoot jackdaws.........
Barry. _________________ "Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them.
It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu.
But I think it's Colin."
I would `echo' what Barry has said, corvids have a natural draw to `eyes'
Won't be doing that again then if I can help it. Feel really bad now having put her at risk. Those eyes are very important eh Peter (along with the rest of her of course!)
I wouldn't feel too bad Karen as your in good company
Its the trouble of having a dog that can do everything, we sometimes get carried away Having dealt with the consequences of corvids and lambs for umpteen years you would think I would have had more sense I was put firmly in my place by a fellow picker up at the time
Peter
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what Barry has said, corvids have a natural draw to `eyes' ( Ask any sheep farmer 
) its not worth the risk IMO, at the very least it teaches a dog to `bite down'.
To this day I refuse to shoot jackdaws......... 
Feel really bad now having put her at risk. Those eyes are very important 
Having dealt with the consequences of corvids and lambs for umpteen years you would think I would have had more sense