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We have Dachshunds. They love to hunt critters. Our current male is a decent mouser. He will alert me to a new invasion of mice in the back yard. He has caught a few mice. One was gone it way under 60 seconds. One mouse was chewed and dead, but still in his mouth. We "tricked" him into putting it down for a treat. I grabbed the carcass and flushed it.
When he is on the hunt for mice, I put out traps to kill em all ASAP. I keep mouse traps set in the garage in places the dogs can't get to if they get out to the garage.
I figure dogs have been eating small critters for hundreds of thousands of years and the wolf, that dogs are descended from have eaten small and large critters for millions of years. Our dogs have their rabies and other shots. We don't encourage a diet of critters, but I don't worry one iota about it.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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