My wild dogs were still ‘in there’ when we tried following up on them at dawn. But wisely we waited and soon the pack had joined us on the road.
They were soon headed across country, the ground here being black clay. Again we had to leap-frog ahead and wait for them to arrived hopefully at the next road.
In the mopanie veld further south we were able to stick with them. Although not during the many unsuccessful chases they had. They just weren’t getting it right this morning. While they went charging over all the fallen trees the elephant had pushed over, I just couldn’t get my car to hurdle them too. Not through lack of trying though. So not surprising they quickly out ran us.
Eventually Jiggy brought home the bacon. It was a young impala. He fed well before heading off to call the pups.
While away a vulture arrived, keen to move in on his prize, but I think our presence kept it at bay.
Jiggy was soon back with Puzzles and Chevvy. It wasn’t long and the rest of the pack arrived finishing off the small kill in only a few minutes.
Puzzles took the pack down to the Chiredzi River but thankfully the water was up and flowing fairly strongly. After staring nervously at the water for about 10minutes, Puzzles eventually took the pack back east to rest up in the mopanie on a nice bare sodic area.
That ended up being the end of the dogs for the day. They roused around 5pm to greet each other and then it was all back to sleep, tummies nice an full.
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