Kill the Wabbit (dog content)
 

I live in a typical surburban neighborhood with two typically suburban dogs. We walk them around the hood a couple of times a day and they go into our fenced back yard when we're a little too lazy to walk them. Or for the before bed pee.

One of the dog likes to wake up at 2 in the morning and needs to go out. He's like on a schedule and just whines at my bedroom door. So I let him out and the other came along last night. This is usually a 5 minute transaction and we all go back to bed. Then they were fussing again, so I delayed until the Mrs took them out. I hear all manner of screaming to drop it (sometimes they pick up their own poop before we get to it in the light).

Well, this time, they found a rabbit and mauled it to death. The little dog had ripped off a leg and brought it in the house and under the table where he takes things he steals from us/the trash/the kids. Lovely. The Mrs went out in the middle of the night and got the bigger dog to give up his quarry...a now headless, missing one leg rabbit.

Jeez. They are just a cattle dog and a lab cattle dog mix. I never saw them as rabbit killers. I'm a little disappointed in them.

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If you think they will do the same for squirrels you can drop them off any time.

Don't be disappointed in them, they are only doing what comes natural to them.

Our Jack Russell would have run about a mile to get the bunny.

Not surprising. My dog was lab/cattle dog, and she would snatch a rabbit faster than a hooker after a Rolex... ;) :D. She was very good about giving them up, if you could catch her, you could take it out of her mouth.

My little demon catches crap constantly.....seagulls, a crow once, squirrels, even caught a good size turtle once...

My mini schnauzer might be just what you need, V^2.

Disappointed????

When do you want her? You pay crate shipping costs.

Turbo catches two or three squirrels a month. She's obsessed, hunting squirrels from sun up to sun down, passing up almost all other family activities.

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I'm hoping they are not training for the family cat!

Only allow them to wear the spear and magic helmet outfit in morning daylight hours.

Pronounced "Speau and magic heaw-met"

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my dog a lab-chow-german shepard mix has killed an possum
but only counts coup on cats as she knows she is not allowed to hurt a cat

she will just lay a paw on top of a cat never bite or try to hurt the cat

They like chasing the cat but she'll snap back at them.

Okay, this is a GROSS dog and rabbit story, so if you are easily offended or have a delicate stomach STOP reading now...

My mom lives with my youngest brother and three border collies which as you imagine, offers multiple opportunities for putting the fun in dysfunction... One of the collies, "Thorn" hunts and catches rabbits whenever possible. He had made a successful catch earlier in the day and consumed it in what would later prove to be large chunks. Brother got home from work late and let the dogs in (Mom was already asleep). Apparently a hastily consumed rabbit can give one an upset stomach. Thorn proceeds to hack/hork (if he were a cat it would have been blook-blook) the rabbit back up. My brother realizes what the dog has done by studying the first pile of evidence which was shortly followed up with two more piles the smell and sight of which made HIM lose his lunch. He put the dogs outside and then got a couple of pans from the kitchen to carefully cover each pile somewhat masticated rabbit bits.

Then he left them there for my mom to "discover" and clean up in the morning... Can you imagine waking up and wondering what is under the three pans in the middle of the living room? Then making the ghastly discovery? ughhh...

angela

My lovely dog was apparently tangling with something In the yard. My wife told me he was messing with something and to look for it when I mowed the lawn later in the day. Not a rabbit this time. A snake. Found a good 4 inch section and that's all I found.

Can't be disappointed that your dog was performing a natural act.

The Golden we had when I was a kid delivered squirrels regularly, a bird once, 2 Opossums and a Raccoon once ... all in a dismembered pool of their own blood, to the doorstep on the back deck. Buster, would sit there proudly awaiting us to discover the prize he had hunted for us.

He was a great dog.

One of the coolest things I ever saw was when my Golden retriever and I were crashing about a creek bed with my 4 wheeler, and her off leash. We kicked up a deer and it ran like the wind with my golden about 20 feet behind her. I took off on the bean stubble (late Fall) after them and intercepted the pair. It was so neat to be 10 feet away from a deer in full sprint for probably 20-30 seconds before she peeled off into a woods.

We had a pair of dachshunds that hunt and chase squirrels in the back yard. They think they are gonna catch the squirrel some day but the squirrel will have to be an arthritic old timer or young and dumb. They will sit in the corner of the yard as far from the only tree big enough for squirrels and watch and wait for hours. They have come within a few feet but no squirrel yet.

We have only had a few rabbits and they can get under the fence to safety before the short legs of the dachshunds can get there.

My little chihuahua, Jack Russell mix has 4 kills. Moles. Wish she could get the other 100 or so.

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Our German Shorthair mauled a little white cat sitting at the end of the driveway. The cat must have been used to dogs as it didn't even flinch as our dog ran up to it.

The only thing my dogs killed was trash they pulled from the Burger King dumpster down the block when they would get out of the yard... and avocados off the tree in the backyard, skin and all... I would find the pits laying around the yard and couldn't figure out what was happening until I found a half eaten one.

We currently have three fat, lazy, spoiled rotten city cats, but they can take down a month! Being seasoned cat owners we know that store bought cat toys are a waste of time and money... cats are much more amused by a crumped up piece of paper or foil, a twist tie, an empty cardboard box, etc.
However my wife can't resist an impulse buy when she goes to the pet store, we have agreed to a no toys with feathers rule because they make a huge mess.
So imagine my surprise when I get home from work and there are feathers on the floor and I'm thinking "oh honey it is bad enough you buy them toys but we agreed to no feathers!" I follow the trial of feathers to the bedroom where there is a small oval object on the floor... I go to pick it up but notice down on the floor around it... I turn on the light and look closer, yep, a bird. My wife was not home so I disposed of the body and vacuumed up the feathers. Mums the word. ;)

Some fellow great dane owners shared this story:

One of their danes found an caught a squirrel in the back yard. Proudly attempting to show off their kill, the dog brought it in the house. Into the master bedroom. And got up on the bed. The other dane feeling a need to be part of the action, stepped up on the bed too and engaged in a short but furious tug-a-war over the freshly killed squirrel. Well it was not long before the squirrel was in pieces all over the bed and floor and walls. The dogs were pretty happy though.

My cat keeps rodent populations under control. He catches & eats rabbits almost as big as he is.

years ago, i had a female miniature dachshund that spent most of her outside time hunting and catching snakes! it was not uncommon to see her dragging a prize about the backyard areas. unfortunately as she got older and slower and with diminished eyesight she was not as effective. she was struck by a small copperhead but with vets care she survived. a few weeks later i came home from work and heard our larger dog barking out several hundred feet from the house. i knew what it was so went to check! poor little sasha...struck right behind the ear by the largest and most beautiful copperhead i had ever seen. sasha was gone...snake probably weighed more than she did! i killed the copperhead and shed a tear or two for one of my best little friends!

I grew up with a fat black lab. The only thing he'd catch and bring to us was frozen, still in butcher's wrap steaks, roasts and poke chops. Never did figure out from which neighbors he got 'em from.

My lab eats avocados too and chases squirrels but has yet to catch one. There is a squirrel that frequents our yard who is clearly not afraid of her...

Tank eats 15-20 avocados a day. Been doing it for seven years. The vet says his physical condition is closer to a three year-old dog. Have at it Brotha!

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Yeah, the pits and skin are supposed to be bad for them but short of cutting down the tree I couldn't stop her and I'm not cutting down the tree. She doesn't eat the pits.

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