[GH85Carrera]

Our male dachshund, Reuben is a hunter of any living or edible thing in HIS back yard. Last week at about 9:30 PM my wife noticed he was not in the house. Like a 2 year old child, quiet and out of sight is not a good thing. Se we went exploring in the yard for him.

He was in the far corner of the yard, in a flower bed, and he had something in his mouth. He had killed a squirrel. It was very floppy, and he had done the death shake on it. It was a sub-adult, not quite full grown. How he got a squirrel at night is unknown.

I carried him and the squirrel to the back porch, my wife went inside to get a couple of treats. She put the treats on the ground and we could see him thinking, go for the sure thing, the treats and give up the prize, or just be stubborn and keep it clamped in his jaws. He went for the treats, and I went for the tail of the tree rat. We were lucky, t was trash day in the morning and the wheelie bin was at the curb, so Mr. squirrel went to the nice farm in the country.

He got a baby bunny earlier in the year, and several mice. The mice he usually disposes of himself if we don't bribe him with a treat.

He has chased off all the Polar Bears, Elephants, and Tigers in the area. They are just gone from the area and hiding at the zoo. Once skunk had two encounters with him, and that was a giant pain in the nose, both times. We hired a professional skunk trapper to get rid of the skunk that had a den nearby.