Omg, I'm mortified.
 

Jackson just killed a huge rabbit right in front me. I know, I know, I'm a wimp and that's what he was bred to do. It was just so weird to see him in such a mode - he's hunted bunnies for years in my dads yard and is definitely pretty intense about it but they always escape out of the fence before he catches them.

Well we had just got home and the bunny was taken by surprise and was just sitting eating grass in between the deck and an ex-pen we have blocking the dogs from under the deck (well, so we thought. Jackson obviously found another route in there). Lilly my dads dog (12lb jrt/shihtzu mix) helped corner it and then Jackson GRABBED it so fast and shook it's neck like a ragdoll in less than 5 seconds. The rabbit's legs were shaking for a bit and then it died (so I hope).

But omg I was so traumatized by what I saw lol. I don't like to see any innocent animal killed for no reason. Poor thing.

Anyway now he keeps barking at the door and being obnoxious trying to go out there. My dads gonna shovel it up and bury it tomorrow.

I know I should be proud, and he was so pleased with himself, lol, but I can't help but feel for the poor bun bun. haha

I know just how you feel. All my yorkies were intense hunters. My last girl after yearssss of hunting for mice finally caught one and killed it while on a camping trip. Thank god I didn't see the actual kill, what I saw was the little feet & tail sticking out from the side of her mouth and a dazed look on her face like she couldn't believe she actually caught this little critter. When I saw the feet and tail I screamed at her to drop it, which she did, I picked it up with a paper towel and trashed it. I was very upset that my sweet passive little girl would actually kill anything, also upset that now she made a kill this would intensify her hunting, which it did. You can't blame your self or Jackson, they are fast and born hunters. We do all we can to protect the wild life. Sometimes things just happen. Sorry you had to see the actual kill, it would be hard on me, so I know how you must feel.

That poor bunny :( Couver killed a baby duckling once... It was pretty traumatizing watching that poor thing die in his mouth.

Oh my, Jackson is a hunter! I understand your mixed emotion, feeling bad for the bunny. My cat Sneakers hunted chipmunks. Just be glad that Yorkies go for a swift kill. Sneakers liked to play with his wounded prey. :(

Teddy would be right there with Jackson. Max would bark from a safe distance. :p

Poor duckling! I would be traumatized too. As I wrote above, my kitty killed a lot of cute chipmunks and made me sad.

Omg I can't decide which one is more sad. :(

It was certainly a swift kill! Thank god...

Ugh I know my dads dogs have aided in the death of a few baby bunnies. But I think something about seeing this HUGE poor innocent bunny just eating grass, minding it's own business, happy as can be and then BAM torture and killed.

I pity anything Cody would catch, it would be unidentifiable. I pray he never does.

Well you could always cook it lol. I know sounds bad but rabbit is ok for dogs he was just probably taking the word organic treats a little far :)

LOL- I know, at least it would get put to good use, I suppose. I would have no idea how to prepare it though :eek:

I remember our previous yorkies were terrible about hunting pests (as in they made bad hunters :P). lol our male actually wouldn't hunt the mice problems we had at the time, he even cried and shooked when there was one caught in a trap. Our female didn't care about the mice, she went to catch and play with any roaches she would find ><;
Now our current jack russells are hunters for sure. Our older girl has helped us root out a large cockroach a couple of times, cause she can see/smell where they are. She'll try to grab them out from under the cabinets and pull them out for us to catch. I'm not sure how much a hunter Kimchi is. She's got potential and a bad penchant to try and grab about near anything on the floor (especially if she knows she's not suppose to have it and it moves).

LOL! Around here, we would leave it for the hawks and vultures to eat.

My doxie loved to chase mice. When we built our house we put plywood down. She would catch them to play with but her teeth were no match. Bad thing i might have got lyme desease from her catching them then sleeping with me.

Oh goodness, I would be so upset. I have a fit every time my foster, Jax, kills a toad. He is relentless and always on the hunt. Like you, I know he is bred this way, but it just makes me so sad for those poor little creatures. I don't know he can stand to foam at the mouth so much, but he just keeps going after them.

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.

Sounds like Pebbles and Dude. Nothing making it out of y yard alive. :(

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. :D

(Now, bunnies would hurt my feelings, but rats and squirrels, not so much) ;)

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!

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Oh yeah I know it's natural, and in a weird way was proud :p but it still wasn't fun for me to see, but I'm a wimp like that. No way could I skin a rabbit (unless I'm starving, I guess lol) and I'm hypocritical - I totally eat meat and realize how it gets to me, I just prefer not to SEE it lol...

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.

Believe it or not bunnies can be very destructive. Chewing holes in wooden fence is what caused the death of one of my yorkies.

It was really wild to see him just so quickly instinctively know what to do, it was so natural to him. He was certainly pleased with himself.

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

Amazing yes, I have been saying this for years, still little hunters. My past girl if she caught a scent of a rodent and was on the hunt or stalking it, would refuse to come in and eat in fear the critter would get away lol, she was a mighty hunter, thank goodness all she ever caught was one lil mouse in her 17 years.