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Hey Guys,

4 more days until Cat season opens where I am at so I thought this might help pass the last few days. I thought with all of the combined hound related experience on this site there would be some pretty good stories of times when your dog treed something that you weren't expecting, or something that you didn't exactly want your dog to tree.

My story was not as much of a tree as it was a bay up, but one evening this past summer my dog got away from me in the back yard and went over to visit our neighbors who were out playing soccer in their back yard. These guys were new immigrants from India, and were definitely not fans of dogs, so when my dog rounded the fence, jaw flapping in standard hound style, them boys scattered. Most of them made it into the house, but one poor fellow was not so quick and ended up bayed up between his fence and my dog.

I wasn't two steps behind the dog to deliver a swift kick in the arse to get her back home, but I couldn't help but find the look on the poor guys face a little bit humorous. I did some quick apologizing, and have to give them credit for not calling the cops on me as I was definitely in the wrong, but it got me thinking, what has your dog treed for you that was... a little off target?

I have never treed a person from India, and yes that would be pretty strange, but As soon as you mentioned strange things in trees, I had a mystery memory of over 30 years ago. Maybe someone can help me with this. Was hunting a young hound and was young myself. Hunting near Dexter OR. It was tall timber within 400 yards of mountain stream. It was level ground in a valley, with some undergrowth and maybe blackberry briars in openings nearby. She treed up a 150 foot fir tree. I didn't have the greatest light, but up at least 80 feet was a set of little Beady eyes. Much too close together to be a coon or cat. I can't remember the race or even if there was one. Have never seen anything like it before or since. I have some possibilities in mind, but wonder what others might have experienced?

David, I'm going to have to say a flying squirrel was that in your tree... Just a guess. Every tree I go to is strange, I just think huh how that critter get up there with these Funny dogs under it.

David, my vote is ring-tailed cat. They are quite odd looking and have little tiny eyes. I know this because I have an old hound that believes she is a catdog, of the ring-tailed variety.

I have caught a couple of Coatimudy's and 2 ring tail cats....and an elk kind of but she didn't tree.. but the funniest story I ever heard was from Mike Bency .. he was hunting up above a picnic area and the dogs got onto something and went through the park and there were some Mexican guys working there and when they heard the hounds opening and coming through one of them climbed a tree so his dogs pulled up and started treeing on him lol .... I remember thinking dang now I have to work on breaking my dogs off of Mexicans...