Motivated Terriers

From The San Francisco Chronicle comes this story:

Guinness, an 8-year-old Wheaton terrier, was hot on the trail of a raccoon last week in Atherton when the masked bandit took the chase to new heights, scaling an oak tree taller than a five-story building.

Not one to give up on a chase, the 40-pound dog went right up after the raccoon and soon found himself frozen in fear about 30 feet above the ground.

“Amazed” firefighters responded to the June 19 incident at about 9 p.m., said Chief Harold Schapelhouman of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District. He said everyone who heard the call thought it was a mistake. Dogs don’t climb trees, they reasoned.
“We thought it was a cat or a raccoon or a possum,” Schapelhouman said “That’s typically what it is. The irony of having a dog up there — it was unusual, to say the least.”

I have had terriers go up trees before after quarry. Pearl, the cover dog, even made it to film, barking furiously in a precarious situation.  And then, there are the hounds and terriers who climb up inside trees.
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