An Airedale Antic from our Recent Texter Airedale Survey
Let’s hear it for “Camp Kane”!!
Kane is a great dog. He’s a wonderful balance of loyalty and stubbornness. He swims with the labs, tracks with the hounds, spars with any dog and outsmarts them all. He is extremely friendly and a little over-exuberant, but absolutely wonderful with kids (since they always drop food). He’s ferocious when defending our house against other dogs in the neighborhood but would welcome a burglar like he’s one of the family!
Every year, for the last 20 years, a group of us (about 50 people) and their dogs go camping in the Sierra, here in California. It’s as much a vacation for the dogs as it is for us. Since we take 2 weeks of food, our ice chests are over 100 lbs and too inconvenient to carry to our cars at night. We tie a zip line between two trees 75 feet apart and attach “Kane” with a tether so he can patrol the area. This last year, we had a bear, on 6 different nights, try to get to our food and Kane defended it with all his might. He was amazing! Absolutely fearless–. Every night the bear tested him and he went on the offense and kept him out of our camp. The bear went to our friend’s site…….”Camp Wiener dog” and ate all their marshmallows and hot cocoa mix. Everyone who had food in the “safe zone” thanked, petted, and hugged Kane for the great job of being our “night watchman”. The other dogs - Labs, Shepherds, beagle, and wiener dogs who didn’t make a peep, had to live with their cowardice!”
