Ahhh! Other people are admitting to harboring killers, so I guess I can share my story.
A few weeks ago, a squirrel got trapped in the garage (we didn't know it was there, but I guess the dogs did!). When we opened the door between the house and the garage, the dogs went tearing out to the garage and started to chase it. Stupid squirrel ran into the house
.
Well, the Pitty was standing there in the hallway trying to figure out what the commotion was from the small ones was all about, when the squirrel ran past him. Like greased lightning (hard to do for an old, arthritic 14 year old Pitty), he reached a foot out and trapped the squirrel by the tail. MEANWHILE, here comes Puddie hot on the trail of the squirrel, which, by now was conveniently trapped.
I think the poor squirrel died of a heart attack when Nitro stepped on its tail, but you can't prove it by Puddie. Nitro released the squirrel to Puddie (Ah, here ya go, Son! Your first kill
!) - then we had to chase Puddie all over God's green earth to get the squirrel away from him. Mind you, this is in the house, in, under, and around furniture!
There is a WHOLE new 'tude about squirrels around the house these days
