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11-11-2014, 06:51 PM | #16 | |
aka ♥SquishyFace♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: n/a
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The fat ones are always the first to go..which is why I'm scared for the zombie apocalypse.....cuz I'm chunky... But anyway..back to the program...lol Sorry you had to witness a kill! I always find it traumatic when animals hunt. Discovery channel just does not desensitize me at all. | |
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11-11-2014, 06:57 PM | #17 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: S. W. Suburbs of Chicago, IL
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| Sounds like Pebbles and Dude. Nothing making it out of y yard alive.
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11-11-2014, 07:52 PM | #18 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: TX USA
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| Not to be insensitive, but that is the reason I wanted Yorkies in the first place - rat catchers! I ended up with a poodle (long story, but it all worked out perfectly) and figured I wouldn't have a rat dog for a while. Well, I was wrong. I mowed the yard (over an acre), took a shower and was relaxing on the back porch in my shorts, all nice and clean when Bug (toy poodle) jumped in my lap and dropped the present he caught and killed for me. A large, freshly killed field rat. I squealed like a little girl, grabbed the rat by its tail and flung it in the yard, much to Bug's hurt expression. lol I am by no means squeamish at all (I work in a trauma center in a bad part of town for doG's sake!), but I never expected my beautifully groomed, bed buddy cuddle Bug to seek and destroy a HUGE rat and then to drop it in my nice, clean lap on bare legs. LOL Bug is now teaching my Yorkie kids to hunt. I am quite proud of my crittering dogs. (Now, bunnies would hurt my feelings, but rats and squirrels, not so much) |
11-12-2014, 06:54 AM | #19 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Lake Geneva, WI
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| Piper proudly raced inside with a mouse she'd caught/killed just as my co-workers arrived to take me to lunch! Good gracious, these little ones are fassstt! Fortunately, Piper was distracted by doorbell just long enough for me to grab mouse and toss over neighbors' fence (guys and Akitas and they don't care). It was one cheap lunch for me--I had nooo appetite right then!! Yorkies are true to their character, for sure! |
11-12-2014, 07:16 AM | #20 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: SoCA
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| I understand how you feel. I liken bunnies to something very innocent and hate to see them hurt even though they have decimated my back yard grass. My cat caught two buns - one was paralyzed and the vet put it down and the second one was sent to a rescue group. A third was brought into the house and I caught it and returned it to the hill. She caught birds all the time. Once I came home and found a dead bird on my pillow. Some present! Lizards too. I thought about getting rid of her because of all the killing but I loved her and eventually she hung out at the house more than going outside.
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11-12-2014, 08:47 PM | #21 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Michigan
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| Wow, I am really on the opposite side of the spectrum here. I would have skinned it and let Gunner eat it. It is natural for terriers to hunt, and I'm sure he was proud of his kill. That bunny probably never knew what hit him, they go right into shock and don't feel much. I must add, I live in the boonies and we live off the land. Deer and bunnies are fair game. I also feed Gunner and MeSo raw.
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11-13-2014, 12:43 PM | #22 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Panama City Beach
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| My daughters puppy (at 8 months old) caught and killed a bird in the backyard. He was so excited! Of course I wouldn't let him keep/eat it so I threw it over the fence. Poor Ernie, he looked for that bird for days afterwards...
__________________ Pam, mommy to Tyson and Rin, grandma to Ernie (Surely I'm not old enough to be a grandma) |
11-14-2014, 07:17 AM | #23 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Duluth, GA
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| I would be upset too. I remember one time my Presley - who was fast as the wind - managed to corner a bird who was too startled to fly away and I'm running after him and yelling at him to leave it alone. Luckily I made it to him and scooped him up. It too a few seconds for the bird to get his bearings and finally flew off. Then another time he spotted a possum. Oh Lord, its was like a standoff - that possum hissing and Presley barking. Finally I scooped him up and on the way back in I saw another possum with a little one right behind it. They can be so fast.
__________________ _______________________________________ Proud Mommy to Presley (RIP), Ripley Skye . and Chloe Belle RIP my beautiful boy, Presley. 8/96 to 1/14 |
11-14-2014, 07:51 AM | #24 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Ohmygosh, Brit, I can't blame you for being mortified - and proud of your little terrier. He did a good thing in his mind and from his dog's viewpoint. Don't you know Jackson was proud of himself! I'll bet he kind of strutted around for the rest of the day! Isn't it amazing that Yorkies haven't been bred for their rodent-killing tendencies for what - almost a century or so - and yet how much of that killer-instinct remains intact all these generations later. And it's not a pure canine-prey thing because we all know not every dog out there would have even tried to chase that rabbit, let alone caught and dispatched it with efficiency.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
11-14-2014, 12:44 PM | #25 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Canton, GA
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| WOW, Jackson must be fast! I know you feel terrible, I would too but honestly it is his instinct. Sophie Kate killed a Carolina Wren in our garage once, it was stuck to one of those sticky mouse trap things so I had to get her unstuck first and then try to remove the poor Wren. Needless to say we removed all mouse traps after that incident, I am not a fan of mice but I will not kill an innocent bird ever again. Now we just have mice but it is not an attractive place for them to hang out.
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11-14-2014, 12:46 PM | #26 | |
Action Jackson ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Maryland
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It did seem like a waste though. I probably should've given it to the neighbors who hunt often. I'm sure they could've put it to good use.
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11-14-2014, 12:47 PM | #27 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Moore, ok, USA
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| Believe it or not bunnies can be very destructive. Chewing holes in wooden fence is what caused the death of one of my yorkies. |
11-14-2014, 12:47 PM | #28 | |
Action Jackson ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Maryland
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__________________ ~ Brit & Lights! Camera! Jackson! CGC ETD TKP ~ Follow Jackson on Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacksontheterrier | |
11-14-2014, 01:08 PM | #29 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: King County, WA
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| I would have eaten the rabbit, making sure it didn't go to waste but there really aren't that many people that would know how to prepare it so I understand the burial. There's always youtube videos on preparing a rabbit for the frying pan! If you're up to that... again... I understand if you're not. It's really not that more involved than preparing a fresh caught fish. Don't watch this vid if you are squeamish, but it really is this easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeFr_HuAR1M I'm surprised whenever I hear these type of comments from the general public: "Why don't they buy store meat where no animals were hurt to make it? " Some people really believe that! LOL https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...1194350AA8aLwe |
11-15-2014, 08:46 AM | #30 | |
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