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After I Thought About It, I Guess I'm Really Weird A few days ago before it turned so cold, Khaleesi and I were in the back yard. I still keep her on a long leash because I'm not convinced the fence is puppy proof. A cat jumped over the fence with a robin in its jaws and it was squealing. Of course Leesi was fascinated. It went on through the yard and we could still hear the bird. Then, the first cat came back in the yard with another cat following it. And the bird was STILL squealing in the cat's teeth (and had Leesi's TOTAL attention). I was holding her and I brought her straight inside. It grossed me out and I didn't want her to think that it was okay to capture small animals. But, then I thought about the fact that Yorkie's were bred as ratters, and I'm sure I overreacted. So, am I just weird that it bothered me and I didn't want her to see it? |
It's perfectly normal for your dog to be interested in that squealing bird as she is a canine with their values and not ours. The cat and the bird were likely potential prey to her and her canine instincts, however squelched those instincts might be from her current lifestyle. It is also perfectly normal for something that awful as a dying bird squealing from fear and perhaps pain to cause you to recoil in horror and not even want you dog to see it! How awful to see a little critter caught like that! I'd still be hearing those little squeaks if I'd seen that and I'm so glad I didn't!!!! Poor little bird. I know nature is nature and all that - but yikes - that is awful just to hear about. I can't even watch those wild animal shows when they show animals being stalked and attacked for food by other animals - I'm a total wuss. But I do know that my dog has way different values than mine! And it's quite normal for him to show an interest in any prey, as gross as it may be to me. |
Thank you. I felt kind of silly after I came in, but I would hate to see HER with a little animal in her mouth squealing. And I just didn't want her exposed to it! (And to be honest, I didn't want to see it, either.) She wasn't the least bit squeamish. It was all very interesting to her! Eek! It's just easy to forget my baby is a dog. LOL! |
What would gross me out is cats in my fence and eating a bird in my fenced in yard. Sorry not a cat person. All dogs normally have some fascination with other animals and catching them. Mine had a thing for frogs for a long time and would pounce when they would jump and played a little rough with them and would well kill them and bring them inside for us (ewwww) now she leaves them alone and will actually step over them and go on her way. |
No comment from the Yorkie mom who received a rat head present in bed one morning... PUKE!!! |
I hate seeing any animal in pain, but I too understand that a terrier will be a terrier. Jackson often chases bunny rabbits in our back yard and tries to hunt them down. He has yet to catch one. But he did catch and kill a bird. :( I was sad... but then somewhat proud that he actually caught (it was on our porch), but I was definitely freaking out... I don't LIKE that he wants to kill other small animals, but I know it's just nature, and his instinct. And in some way it's cute that it's still there, to me. |
Huey caught a baby bird that fell onto our deck & proudly carried the pitiful, chirping creature into the house where he proceded to do the "kill the prey" head shake. My knees went weak!!! I got it away from him and put it back in the yard. It was still alive but it disappeared a short while later. I'm sure one of the neighbor's cats had to have gotten it. It was terrible!!! :( |
Paris would launch out the back door to get the squirrels. He never caught one,but he sure enjoyed trying! |
Completely normal to think that way as we have compassion for just about anything that's being hurt or in pain. |
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Well I have cats. . . . Need I say more . . .:cool: |
IF Khaleesi could have caught that bird, it would have been HER mouth it was screeching from!!! LOL My Fletcher killed a chipmunk. I think he gave it a heart attack more than likely, but nontheless it was dead and he was proud as a peacock! Normally there is no way he'd actually catch a chipmunk, but this one was lame, and one of the kids caught it first, they just showed it to Fletch who lunged and got it from them and ran around the outside of the car in circles, prancing and dancing and when we got it away from him it was dead. |
Bailey was out in the front yard with Natalie this summer. All of a sudden his head went low in to the grass and he pulls up a mole! Natalie screamed, Bailey dropped the mole who got a way, and now my yard looks like a plows been though it. Thanks dear! |
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My dad on the other hand had a black chow named Indigo that was the neighbor cat killer so almost monthly he would have to send out I am sorry for loss and what can I do for your family notes. |
Yeah, Lovetodream88, we can keep other dogs out of the back yard, but cats are more difficult. I guess it's one thing to know it happens, but another to watch it happen, or like Guinness' mom, be presented with the evidence! ;) (At least it wasn't a horse's head, Alisha! Sorry, but Guinness can do no wrong in my eyes!) Once day I came home to find the back HALF of a rabbit in the driveway. Not sure who left me that little "gift". We don't have moles around here, but we have PLENTY of other "prey", so I can see what's in store for the future! I'm just going to have to get over this, aren't I? |
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Waking mommy up so of course means she has no contacts in and giving her a wet bloody rat head on her WHITE down feather comforter then giving her Yorkie kisses on the face while I reach for what I think is a toy and that he wants me to throw it to play but thank goodness husband comes in the room and asks what is that thing on the bed you are reaching for and then starts laughing and tells Guinness he is daddy's good boy for bringing his mommy a rat head... Yea that is about the point I jump out of bed screaming and get into the shower!!!!! Oh course Ryan was so proud of his little boy he took pictures and likes to surprise mommy with random out of the blue close up picture reminders of that day :mad::thumbdown |
I would be more freaked out about trying to free the bird from the cat lol... I don't like seeing things like that, so I would have given the cat heck and tried to free the bird. Poor little bird :( |
I have a real problem with cats catching birds. I have cats that go outside into the woods and they hunt a lot. If I catch them with a bird I will take it away from them. Many times it is still able to fly away. They catch lots of rodents and I have no issue with that (as long as the body stays in the woods) I always have to patrol my backyard to make sure there are not dead rodents or birds out there before I take Gracie out in the yard. If she sees a dead body on the ground she goes right for it and I don't want to have to grab it out of her mouth. Your dog is naturally going to be interested in animal sounds. You just don't want the dog eating any of them!:eek: |
We had a feral that we had as an indoor / outdoor. He would go down the field in front of the house and get a mouse. Bring it up to me ( I hate mice and rats) to show me. Then lay down with it and proceed to eat it. The week of Easter . . . He got the Easter bunny. . . He was a 13.5 lb cat. All muscle. He even stalked and chased the deer. I really think in his pass life he was a tiger. :sidesplt: |
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