Dog Carrier

[fixitsan]

 

Wherever do you go for a walk?!!

 

Better not take her near Beecraigs, then.

 

You've been though Livingston haven't you, the A899 dual carriageway going between the M8 and the A71 'Lizzie Bryce' roundabout with the Shell petrol station....just before you get to that roundabout at the A71 end as if you were heading to Edinburgh,, in the woods on the left, plenty of deer at night nowadays. I live on one of the small estates which back onto those woods on the left, a couple of years ago it was rare to get deer through there, they usually stayed on Lord Torphichen's estate, but at night now they set the local dogs off by coming up to the fences at the bottom of our gardens, leaving their scent and a couple of times they've been hooving at the fence !

 

They're not like those big fellas at Beecraigs, red deer I think those are aren't they ? These are the smaller 'suburban' roe deer. The walk through the woods we take is half lit by the council lights, but then we take what was the old road before the A899 was built alongside it, which you can't see from the A899, and use our torches for that bit. I think it was in October of last year we saw 4 deer in under 800yards, either on the footpath or crossing it.

 

Bassett hounds have the second best sense of smell of all dogs, so you can imagine how that walk goes...he switches his ears off completely and those dumpy little legs and big thigh muscles give him 4 wheel drive torque levels !

 

We get a lot more badgers now too, cheeky beggars just trot up and down the footpaths as shortcuts, and foxes too. I think it might well be due to lockdown and them feeling less distracted by people and traffic.

 

We got the beagle when she was 8 weeks, and the bassett was 2 yrs, and he pushed her around a bit, but then around 18 weeks she realised she had grown quick enough to outpace him and from there on I would say she just torments him now to, get her own back. I filmed this at about the critical time....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs_jZ55DXkc

This post was last modified: 03-03-2021, 12:32 AM by fixitsan.