Gunner Asch wrote:

"E.B." wrote:

Just in case anyone didn't get the meaning "Call in the dogs and ****
on the fire," is meant to imply it is time to quit hunting or simply to
leave. (The dogs aren't tracking anything and everyone is smoking
PallMalls around a fire in the woods.)

Here's the exact meaning:

Your goddamned dogs are out waking folks up chasing deer somewhere,
the booze is all gone, and you're gonna go home and take the phone off
the hook. I've shot a bunch of hounds.

Gio

You mean you shoot off things besides your mouth?

Gunner

"Kill cats..... they carry bird flu."

Gio