January 3

I decided to bag her with a road kill I had frozen in the freezer. Yesterday, with temps in the low 20's, I got to the field, tied a string on one of the squirrel's legs and threw it over a branch about ten feet up. I tied it off and got Okie out and started hawking. We hawked for about an hour and by then had made it back to the squirrel. As fate would have it, she landed in the tree next to the squirrel, and was only about ten feet away from it. When I began moving the squirrel with the cord. She just sat there and watched. I really had to get it going before she would commit to it. It was obvious (to me) that she had never caught a squirrel before in her life. I, of course, let her feed up on the critter, and am hopeful that we will now be able to do some squirrel hawking. I suspect that she has seen them in the past, even though I didn't, but wasn't interested, so we didn't have any chases. She is still pushing 42 ounces.