[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.