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Chose the squirrel tonight. Delicious. Time to pop a few more off for the pot!
Guys - you need to stop multi-tasking/speed-reading!
I did state that I ascertained that these dogs were working dogs, ie trained to the gun. Of course the size was a dead-giveaway as working dogs are considerably smaller than show dogs.
Thinking about this a bit more, the perpetrator was pack leader (mother) and the other two were daughter and grand-daughter. So of course her action may have been just to show the youngsters that she's top dog and there's life in the old gal yet.
HTH. 🙂
Dancake - Member
If it is a fresh dead thing, my Springer may pick it up. If it's old and rancid he'll just roll around on it.
edit: He will run after furry things though without success
This.
Two springers (neither trained to the gun - just pets). Both will chase anything that moves. One never gets close as although he's the younger he's clumsy and thick as s**t - he will also ignore dead stuff.
The other will 'collect' anything freshly dead and carry it around for a bit until he gets bored. He will roll in anything dead that's rotting a bit. VERY occasionally he catches something still breathing (usually young/old/weak rabbits) and dispatches it. He then treats it exactly as something he found freshly dead.
Always a little distressing/awkward when he kills, but not really a problem as he's a 'hunting' dog who has been raised as pet and not had those behaviours trained out of him. Grew up with 'proper' trained to gun working Springers and never saw any of them chase/take/kill anything still alive.
slainte ➡ rob
[i]The best one was when he brought us a pheasant. We took that home and ate it. YUMMY. Even gave Max some.[/i]
GOOD DOG!
Animals are food. Dogs see animals as food, just like we do. If they see one, they may well try and kill it. Good dog! Time to eat it.
I'm sorry but I have NEVER seen an animal die of shock by being picked up by a dog. I have two working labs and I pick up on driven shoots twice a week during the shooting season. The rest of the year I shoot pigeons, rabbits and squirrels.
I have, my best friend had a farm and a chicken coup that his field spaniel managed to infiltrate.....then plonked one of his chickens down in front of him proudly.
The bird had gone into fight or flight mode, flaps around like a mentalist in the dogs soft mouth and gives itself internal injuries.
So the bird didn't die because it got ripped to shreds by some psychotic dog, they died because they went into shock combined with injuries caused by struggling which would have lead to a slow death had they it be dispatched.