Kill the Wabbit (dog content)

[VaSteve]

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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[VincentVega]

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

[scottbombedout]

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.

[porsche4life]

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

[HHI944]

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

[Jim Richards]

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

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

[Head416]

Disappointed????

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by VincentVega

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

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.

[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Head416

Disappointed????

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

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

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.

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

Pronounced "Speau and magic heaw-met"

[nota]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

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

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

[VaSteve]

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

[Laneco]

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

[VaSteve]

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.

[911SauCy]

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.

[ckelly78z]

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.

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[Eric Hahl]

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

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[930addict]

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.