Severe Casualty

[trent]

Fell asleep this evening with the TV on and the dog happily chewing on a bone on the floor. Woke up to an enormous mess. For some reason, Gina (the dog) had gotten into all kinds of the fly tying stuff I had sitting out on the table. She's never done anything like this before. So, there was various hackle, marabou, flashabou, beads, rubber legs, and who knows what all spread gleefully around the living room.

As far as I know, she didn't ingest any hooks. Otherwise, I might expect to find a nice streamer pattern nicely tied by her bowels in the backyard during the spring thaw. Not sure what kind of name I would have given to that fly. Anywho, I can't say I'm terribly pleased with my hound, nor with myself for apparently sleeping through what looked like a serious meteorological event.

Luckily I got it cleaned up before Mrs. Watkins saw it. Otherwise we may be talking about the best way to preserve my hide and the dog's for future fly tying. Krebsie would have to ask the trick question of how many flies you can tie out of a Weimaraner pelt. BTW, that beaver weighs 30 more pounds than my dog. How would you like to meet up with that thing in a dark alley?

So, it appears my hound has really taken an interest in this fly tying stuff, so expect to see her on the first Thursday of the month at the Sportsman's Warehouse (with January being the exception of course). I know she is going to make a mean deer hair popper at the next one.

[krebsie]

Ha Ha Ha, sorry, just couldn't help it. I guess we forgot to warn you. But you did know that a Weimaraner is a bird dog, and birds have feathers, and fly tiers use, what? Hope you don't have a cat! They love to chew on the feathers and rip them from the hide and scatter them all around the house, especially behind the furniture! And if you catch them in the act they will grab "their" expensive, new found toy, which they actually think is theirs, and run! What a sight it must be, probably looks like the chef on the "Little Mermaid" Lewie, you know "La Pwa So, La Pwa So, He He He, Ho Ho HO, How I love little fishies I do..... Yep, been there done that!
Krebsie

[rstaight]

That is so funny. Or at least its funny when it not happening to you.

Luckily I have never had this happen. Could partly be my wife was always asking "Can the dogs get into any of that?"

Then I would clean it up just to make sure.

Thanks for the laugh.

[radioflyer]

I feel your pain. Don't have a dog but have two cats. I'm having to lock all my tying stuff in vaults anymore. They've discovered how to paw open drawers and remove things. My wife came home from work last week to find a full Hungarian partridge on the bathroom floor and anytime guests come over I'm having to excuse myself as I remove deer strips from the sofa so they can sit down. I cut foam into strips for hoppers and the cats seem to find them and scatter them all over the house. I even find bucktails in my shoes. Flytying has made life so interesting of late!

rf

[Tippecanoe Fly Fishers Admin]

I had a cat that got ahold of a a white popper. The wife comes home to find what she thinks is a giant dust ball on the cat's mouth. When she gets closer, she finds that the cat had pierced it lip with the hook on the popper. Carol wound up wrapping the cat in a towel then cutting out the hook with a pair of needle noce pliers. She still get a kick out of that story.

When I am in the yard in the spring practicing my casting with only line and a tibet, cats make good targets to aim at. Plus they love to chase the line around the yard.

Sometimes I wonder what the neighbors think...

[radioflyer]

Les,

OUCH! That's my biggest fear...the cats getting into my hook boxes or my dropping a fly somewhere and the cats decide to carry it away. I try to take lots of precautions to avoid practicing hook removal on a very mad cat!

rf