[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Lassie! Rover is stuck in a hollow tree! Go get help!”

“Arf!”

20 years later...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Ping Worthy?

[Zarro]

Stuckie? You can’t make this stuff up.

[Red Badger]

My sister lives in WAYCROSS!.................

[Red Badger]

[Charles Martel]

Sounds like one of Jerry Clower’s tales.

[heterosupremacist]

there once was a dog named 'stuckie' they say he was very unlucky he chased a beast expecting a feast and that's when things turned sucky! 8O)

[Daffynition]

Candidate for *Bad Taxidermy* ...http://www.badtaxidermy.com/

[MplsSteve]

Poor dog.

I’ll bet its humans were sad that the dog was lost too.

[fwdude]

Racoon wins?

[BenLurkin]

Horrible

[woodbutcher1963]

Gives a whole new meaning to “aged 20 years in oak cask”.

[fishtank]

[yarddog]

Around 1960 we were hunting on my parents land. My Brother-in-Law’s dog named Smokey, was chasing something then just disappeared.

After maybe 15 minutes we heard him barking way underground. He came out after we called him but I always wondered just how far that cave system went. Never tried to find out tho.

[Ancesthntr]

Sad story...I hope that Stuckie (really, what a name given how he ended his days) has plenty of raccoons to chase in Heaven.

[edwinland]

“Loggers find perfectly preserved canine 20 years after it got stuck while ‘chasing a racoon’”

I guess they don’t have the past tense in England. In America, the proper headline for this article would be:

“[38 years ago in 1980] Loggers _found_ perfectly preserved canine 20 years after it got stuck while ‘chasing a racoon’”

I’m waiting for the Daily Mail to print “MEN WALK ON MOON” (which is only 11 years older than the story about the preserved canine, by the way) so I can say “No way. That’s great. We’ve landed on the moon!”

[Theoria]

[kaehurowing]

I worry about this when I have to check how full our closets are.

[equaviator]

I’m surprised he wasn’t eaten alive from the bottom up.

[John S Mosby]

For a little historical human balance to this dedicated pooch’s demise there is this:

Prior to 1770, Daniel and his brother in law John Stewart were captured twice by Indians, being set free the first time, and escaping the second time. Daniel and John Stewart went on a hunt along what would become the Wilderness Road in 1770: John Stewart disappeared while hunting. Five years later, as the road was being blazed, in 1775- his body was found in a hollow tree where he had hid after begin shot by Indians and apparently died while hiding inside the huge tree.

-— From a history of Daniel Boone, excellent read “Boone”