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A Look Back at the Time a Mummified Hunting Dog Was Found Inside a Hollow Tree
WOS ^ | November 5, 2019 | Brad Smith

Posted on 07/29/2020 11:24:40 AM PDT by Daffynition

The remains of a dog in a tree trunk is something you don't see every day.

As the story goes, sometime back in the 1960s down in Georgia, a hunting dog chased a raccoon up inside a hollow tree. The determined dog wouldn't relent from chasing the coon farther up towards the top of the tree, and it eventually got stuck.

Fast forward 20 years to 1980, some loggers were clearing woods and found the dog still stuck inside the tree trunk. Only now, it was mummified in the same position it died in.

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1 posted on 07/29/2020 11:24:40 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

Reminds me of Joe Biden in his basement.


2 posted on 07/29/2020 11:30:35 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Daffynition

Poor guy. Seen this fellow before. Did his job better than 98% of humans would do.


3 posted on 07/29/2020 11:32:55 AM PDT by Lockbar (Vlad the Impailer had all the answers.)
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To: Daffynition

Poor Fido. A dedicated hunter to the end.
He’s probably still chasing that squirrel in Purgatory.
An endless loop.


4 posted on 07/29/2020 11:33:51 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Daffynition

If you want a friend, get a dog.


5 posted on 07/29/2020 11:35:52 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Shoot low - they're riding Shetland Ponies.)
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To: Daffynition

If I was a raccoon that would scare the beejezus out of me! Heck as a PERSON it would scare the beejezus out of me!

6 posted on 07/29/2020 11:36:08 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: Daffynition

Doggone


7 posted on 07/29/2020 11:36:15 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Daffynition

Awww, good boy.


8 posted on 07/29/2020 11:37:32 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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He was after a bag of chips? /s


9 posted on 07/29/2020 11:38:31 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Bob434

10 posted on 07/29/2020 11:42:38 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: LibWhacker

We have a yellow Lab. I could see this happening to him. He’s pretty much a knucklehead.


11 posted on 07/29/2020 11:44:22 AM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: Daffynition

Lol! Good doggie, but why is there a bag of dessicant in there with him?


12 posted on 07/29/2020 12:20:37 PM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: freedumb2003

My dog chased one of my chickens under the canoe the other day. He couldn’t get out. I heard muffled barking and found him.


13 posted on 07/29/2020 12:23:07 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins #150Kclub)
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To: Afterguard
When they opened the tree moisture would have started to degrade the mummy. So they put in some dessicant to stop it.

The same reason people mummies are kept in sealed glass cases filled with Nitrogen.

14 posted on 07/29/2020 12:25:27 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: Daffynition

sometime back in the 1960s down in Georgia,...

Lots of good stories start that way.


15 posted on 07/29/2020 12:27:38 PM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I got it, thanks. I should have included a s/ notation. :-)


16 posted on 07/29/2020 12:36:29 PM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: Daffynition

I had no idea they had COVID back then.


17 posted on 07/29/2020 12:38:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: lee martell
For sure.

Our Winchester is that way.

When you own a dedicated work dog, you know it.


18 posted on 07/29/2020 1:07:26 PM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: Daffynition

Poor doggie. Tough way to go.


19 posted on 07/29/2020 1:09:41 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Texas resident
sometime back in the 1960s down in Georgia,... Lots of good stories start that way.

In the 1960s down in rural Georgia, I lived in an old AnteBellum plantation house that had long since fallen into dilapidation and ruin.   Dad bought it in 1959 at auction for $11,000.00, along with 93 acres and many of the old out buildings.   Dad's grand dreams of restoring it by using the sweat equity of his sons didn't work out so well.   The house was eventually restored by two successive owners.   We moved to Huntsville, Alabama at the end of my fifth grade.

Lot's of good stories...

For example, neither of the successive owners know where Amanda M. Seabrook's grave is located.

20 posted on 07/29/2020 2:20:31 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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