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Me and my dog make a great Fly Chasing Team.

We kill flies together. And then he eats them. Good protein source, if you ask me.

Just right now we are back from yet another successful mission. Captain FLP (this the name in code of my dog) usually detects the tiny flies, i can see the big ones. 

Few minutes ago our mission started in the usual way. Its a cool day here (finally) and i immediately opened window and balcony door....everything was fine when, all of a sudden, i heard it. The annoying buzz in my ears.

At the same time FLP appeared running at my side. He was snoring few seconds earlier, so powerful is his internal fly radar, but he heard the buzz too. Good, he was probably thinking with his dog brain...hunt is on.

"Chase the fly, FLP" its the sign of open war.

We quickly alligned in position: he visualized the trajectory of the flying enemy and pointed decisively to the bathroom, i got up and went to grab my super-duper-thecnologically advanced weapon: a table cloth. (duh.....what did you expect? A laser gun?).

Well, weapon in hand and FLP leading... we entered the bathroom. The fly was still on the back of the blinds.  But she is a little creature. She can't stay still for too long.....nor she can open the window and byebye humans. She is stuck, i thought.

But past experiences had taught the deceiving and quick ways flies possess to elude the most impossible situation and the capture.

And she evidently went to school with all A's.

She darted quick as a fox (why? if she is a fly? ....dont ask) and emitting that fastidious sound again right close to my ear, she avoided my table cloth that, as vendicative as Jehova,  fell ineptly against the window.

The enemy was zapping in the living room now. But FLP didn't loose sight of her.

He guided me imperiously to the living room windows.

And there we applied our most successful and acrobatic tactic of all: the Window Banging (no, its not a Kamasutra position for dog lovers).

FLP started to push his nose against one side of the panel why i was slamming the table cloth very rapidly against the fly. When she could escape me she had to avoid FLP.

Because he was always right on her, hopping up and down,  wagging his tail in sheer happiness.

After few seconds she got tired and disoriented and confused... and as soon as she lied to rest a micro-nano second too long FLP was there and mercilessly ate her.

Mission accomplished.

Fly Chasing Team was (again) victorious. 

Flies of all the neighborhood behave.

It just silly, effortless, easy, free fun...we both have a little action  and we bond together.

Hey , better tha bar hopping....lol....

Plus, i doubt they would let him enter.....

Do you have any of this silly, improptu fun?



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  • secretlife said on Sep 11, 2007....

    oh you made me laugh!

    as you know, my Oliver is a fly catcher too!

    And this summer, i've been sitting out on the deck in the early mornings with my coffee and my laptop ...working.  i put the dog out on a 'run' at this same time.

    the funniest day was when he was sitting to the side trying to catch bumblebees!

    he'd stick his nose where they were, and when they would start to fly he would paw at them....next thing there are two and then three bees and eventually i'd have to take him away from that spot so he doesn't actuall eat the damn bees!

    but then the moment i turn my back on him, he's right back to chasing bees!

    i get lots of laughs out of him snapping at flies and eating them (how freaking gross is that anyway?  blahhhhhhhhhh) ...but i'll tell you ginger - he's not gonna lic me or try to kiss me because i know in my heart that the little imp is a bug-eater!

  • Battycat said on Sep 11, 2007....
  • gingersoul said on Sep 11, 2007....

    Secret.......LOL...i knew that your Oliver was a little bag of trouble....

    they are just  too funny to watch sometimes......i am telling you...the only thing i let my dog lick are my feet....actually i am ticklish so sometimes i make a point to see how long i can resist ....not very much.....i cant help laughing and stopping him..oh well, unfazed he moves to lick his butt....ewwww.....lol...  

    but he loooves to lick ANY feet he happens to have under his nose....my friends know him very well by now...

    Batty...???? ..you got a fly in your mouth??...lol... 

     

  • vacantmind said on Sep 11, 2007....

    Dewie is my big lab/great dane mix. He has a tendency to snore really loud. He has been known to wake himself and start barking. It is so funny. He's not big on bug catching but he will catch anything thrown to him. He is my best friend so we spend alot of time together. Now, I wish he would catch the flies. It sure would be helpful.

  • botoni said on Sep 11, 2007....
    My prissy little guys wouldnt lower themselves to actually catching flies. On the other hand Joey our guest dog is a master. I d never seen him do his fly catch routine until one day i was near him and suddenly his mouth opened and he made a HUGE snap. Scared the heck outta me till I realized he was dutifully protecting us from those annoying things. LOL.
  • gingersoul said on Sep 11, 2007....

    Vacant.....LOL..that so funny.....i saw a video on Youtube of a dog that was doing the same thing.....too funny....

    my dog instead talks during his sleep.... he makes these weird sounds and whines or barks during his REM phases....he wiggles the tail and move the legs like he is running.......freakign funny.....me and my daughter laugh anytime....

    Bottie....i am telling you....dogs love flies...my friends didn't beleive me at the beginning...they were like 'Its just a concidence. He doesn't actually eat then"....then they saw him in action....quite a show.....lol....

  • queenparanoia said on Sep 12, 2007....
    that was fun ginger and your dog is funny! i keep thinking of pipa as i read thsi though... =)
  • moonriver said on Sep 12, 2007....
    moonriver k'ung fu-tzu say, me think this universal dog habit. same thing happen with my dogs. flies eat gunk, turn them into nice-tasting hormone chemicals. maybe dogs need fly hormones for canine fun, like people desire chocolate. my dogs think horse flies taste like domori cru.

  • gingersoul said on Sep 12, 2007....

    Queen....my dog is a Fly Master..how do you dare call him funy?..tsk tsk....LOL...

    Moon...oh so nice to see Confucius again....domori cru? what is that?

    Uhmm....flies like chocolate ...i see ...and i think you are absolutely rigth because ...here we go again.....FLP is on mission again...

    Sorry, we have some business to take care of.....where is my table cloth?....wish us luck...

    "Chase the fly, FLP"......

  • Mamie said on Sep 12, 2007....
    you are so funny! My dog is smaller but thinks he is a deer hunter. He chases them out of the yard but not really TOO close. He is also a frog-licker...maybe he has issues.
  • gingersoul said on Sep 12, 2007....

    Mamie.....oh oh..frog-licker...my dog too is a huge frog-licker....and that is nasty, if you ask me.......

    He has another funny habit though..... when we go walking sometimes he has the running fever in his legs....so he stops and starts to run in circle around me....

    picture me as a Vienna horses ring master .....i am at the center and he runs around me, in a perfect coordinated circle......i mean even for 10 times.....believe me...i get dizzy only for watching him spinning so fast around me....then he crashes on the grass and pants with his eyes out of his skull...

    people stops to watch him...lol..

    you know, my complex has a strict rule about keeping dogs at leash (that other seem not bother to respect anyway) so when he has his running fever he can only run in circle..........but he seems to appreciate ....lol.....

  • the_infernal_optimist said on Sep 12, 2007....
    I loved this post! So funny! :-D

    We don't have pets right now, but little one and I have silly fun all the time. Her most recent thing is to throw her head back when she's in my arms, stiffen her body, fling her arms upward, and yell, "I flying! Wheeeeeee!"

    Then I spin her around and we laugh ourselves silly. :-D

    And ewwww, frog-licker! My MIL's dog used to do that. Entertaining, but gross.

    ~Infernal
  • gingersoul said on Sep 12, 2007....

    Infernal...oh..but that's even funnier....lol..

    I remember doing the same with my daughter..now you have to consider that when she was a toddler she was normal as weight (taller than her friends though) but......for some reason if you would have picked her up you would have stopped in the middle of the lifting thinking "What the heck this girl is made of? Brick?".....no kidding....

    So it was so funny watching our friend's faces when they would get ready to lift her ....the smile, then the stiff smile, then the puzzling look to us and then the lift.......aghh... priceless.......she was just this mysteriously heavy...and if you would have looked at her you would have never guessed it....lol....

    Another game was to hold her by her wrist (me) and by her ankle (her father) and then doing the swing....moving her from right to left  few times and then lifting her in the air (ouch for our backs......) so she would land in the middle of the bed.....

    Another funny thing was letting her doing "The BatGirl"..she loved being upside down......typical kid thing... so we used to take turn in holding her with her legs on our shoulder and let hang down ......since her father is tall he used to hold her by her ankles and take her with him around the house...but once in a while he was pretending to let go of her...oh, the laughs we all had......... 

  • moonriver said on Sep 12, 2007....
    ginger -- want some of this domori cru in a package with a nice ribbon? try the 100% cocoa...

  • gingersoul said on Sep 12, 2007....

    Moon.....YES, YES, YES, YES!!!!!.....lol...oh, my...100% cocoa....

    you know my choco-quest is always on......and this seems heavenly delicious...  

    how did you find it?  ;-)

  • ellamae14 said on Sep 13, 2007....
    funny. :P
    next time try a more advance, state of the art weapon.
    have you heard of "wrapped newspapers"? it's really effective. :>
  • moonriver said on Sep 13, 2007....
    ginger -- moonriver k'ung fu-tzu say, me search all over to find 100% cocoa just for you, my love. if all right, me can send over box of chocolate-coated horse-flies too, for flp.

  • GrapeKoolaid said on Sep 15, 2007....
    I haven't had a dog in a really long time....  I miss them. 

    In this war against pests, I do have a most powerful ally.  She's also my secret weapon against mice, spiders and other small creatures.  She's my cat.  She presses flies up against the window and she eats them.  I think she likes the crunch. 

    Fun post.  A real horrorshow. 

    grape. 
  • gingersoul said on Sep 15, 2007....

    Ella.......sorry if i reply so late ....smart suggestion.....that was actually my choice of weapon number one...thick folded newspaper..

    but i found that a table cloth have a wider display of surface to hit ....lol...thank you anyway... ...

    Grape.....it's soap opera some time, more than a horrorshow....lol.... 

    And talking about cat....you remember my pictures? Do you remember a cute shot of a dog and a cat at the window? Well, thats FLP and the other one is Allie. Actually, was. She died last winter of leukemia. 

    Ok, as you say and as your cat shows, cats usually love chasing flies, little creatures....feathers.... something.....well, not my Allie.

    You would  think SHE was the one on duty in our household fot that difficult task...think again...Foggetaboudit....

    This is the kind of scene of fly hunting in my house: the fly would arrive and even circle several times around Allie's gracious head (well, yes he was pretty and she knew it too). Did she move a whisker? Di she follow the fly with at least ONE eye? Did she start to flick her tail? A little? Did she at least move One single muscle?
    Nahh..

    the fly would keep circling to her own exhaustion but THAT cat wouldn't care......you know why? Because she knew it...she knew that in the house another four legs and one two legs  would have accomplish that task...

    and soon or later FLP would have arrived, would have spotted the fly, bumped against Allie in the rush of catching  her and only then Allie would have emit a hiss and slowoooly move to another (higher) spot to keep sleeping  and FLP and i would have been working the floor......she would have looked at us with semiclosed eyes probably thinking.."Will they ever learn the subtle art of letting go?"

    So ...Grape..you have a valuble cat there..keep her happy....LOL.. 

  • lfbno7 said on Sep 30, 2007....
    awww.  my dog is too stupid to catch flies.  i will tell him about the great and legendary flp.  perhaps that will motivate him to rise to new heights of excellence himself.

    my dog runs and gets a toy whenever someone he knows comes home.  they will see my dumb dog with a toy in his mouth.  very good, harry, very good.  you have outdone yourself today.  you have taken a toy in your mouth.
  • Battycat said on Sep 30, 2007....
    oops - This came up in "my conversations" I hadn't realised I didn't actually say anything :-) Sorry.
    Anyway, I think i meant to say - lol, keep at it FLP, my kittens like to chase them as well, it's about the only thing I don't mind them killing :-)
  • gingersoul said on Sep 30, 2007....

    LF......LOL....that was funny.....

    So Harry is a social toy fetcher.......like i am social house cleaner...lol...

    My FLP knows how to do some easy tricks., to be honest....

    Like "half rollover" (not a complete one because i think he is scared of finding himself on the other side...uhmm..how did i end up here?..he thinks)..."nite-nite" (he lays down on the floor banging his tail), "twister" (he can run in circle several times when i ask him to esepcially if i hang in front of him some ham)

    But his better interpretation is "bartender"...he is actually able to sit on his butt for a long time...i mean on his butt not on half tigh.....and he is so ligth that he can hold his balance by slitghtly putting his paws on my hand....like he is sitting at the counter....too funny....

    But he has never been able to fetch anything...the most he can do is chewing on  a bone i gave him ages ago or some stuffed animals that my daughter doesn't like anymore..

    Maybe Harry and FLP should play together......now that would be a sight!...lol..

  • lfbno7 said on Sep 30, 2007....
    Harry would be so excited.  He is a silly and energetic and comical dog.
  • gingersoul said on Sep 30, 2007....

    What kind of dog is your Harry? Mine is a mix between a boxer and a beagle.....go figure....lol...

     

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