Omg, I'm mortified.

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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
 

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Oh my, that unlucky rabbit. At least it looks like it received a quick... death...? LOL. Jackson's like, "Let me dance and bellow the song of my people around my first kill!!"

I'd be secretly pleased if my dog were fast enough to snatch a wild rabbit. :eek: How agile of him.
 

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Reminds me of the time Nina caught a mouse (or vole, or whatever it was) next to the garage one day when I was taking out the trash. She was on a long line and it just shot out of nowhere and she had it right under her paw.

I kept trying to get it away from her (she didn't kill the poor thing but she crippled it :( ) but I couldn't do it holding her in the leash with one arm and trying to nudge it away with the other. Prey drive is so much freakier than straight up aggression to me - even though I never doubted she'd go after something if she could, it's like...she was trying SO hard to sit still and be obedient but if it moved even just because I was trying to nudge it away it was like this silent determination just took hold of her completely and then she'd be so embarrassed she'd broken the command. No barking or lunging, just very silent pulling and scrabbling toward it like she had to have it or she'd die.

LOL then she snatched it after I buried it and tried to make a game of running from me in the yard (which doesn't work when you're tied together :p )
 

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Oh my, that unlucky rabbit. At least it looks like it received a quick... death...? LOL. Jackson's like, "Let me dance and bellow the song of my people around my first kill!!"

I'd be secretly pleased if my dog were fast enough to snatch a wild rabbit. :eek: How agile of him.
Well, the rabbit didn't really have anywhere to go cuz it was caught in the ex-pen... so I guess it wasn't THAT great, but I know a part of me is kind of like "wow!" and another is like "bad dog!" LOL...

This bunny was huge too. Size of a full grown cat almost, I'd say.

He was so happy afterward and I was so upset with him. lol
 

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Mia's first mouse kill traumatized me. To start with I have a phobia of mice. It was also not a clean kill by any means.
 

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Totally mixed feelings! I bet he was so proud.

Lola has pretty high prey drive, she is death to bugs and crabs. But the first time she cornered a mouse, the mouse took the offensive and leapt at her face and Lola jumped backwards a MILE and barked her displeasure at being embarrassed like that. She's very eager for a second chance though. I'm not really sure if it's good that she didn't kill the mouse or sad that I have a pathetic dog LOL.

I've also had to pry a live baby squirrel, a mouse, and a snake out of Lucy's mouth.
 

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lol, I don't think that makes you a wimp! I love Hugo and totally get his desire to kill-all-the-things when he's in prey drive... but I also love animals as a whole. Plus, I don't know that I would let him eat a wild animal he caught (largely because it would be a mess and I don't know if that animal was sick) so it would have died for no reason (like you said.)

I do have to admit that it's pretty impressive. He doesn't seem like he's that big of a guy, lol.
 

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I think I could handle Yoshi actually killing things if she would stop just catching them and then releasing them in our house.
 
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My little dogs chased a Marmot under my barn, then it ran out right in front of Susie and she grabbed it. She killed it right away and I did not have the heart to take it off her she was so proud of herself. I think she thought she had caught the biggest squirrel ever after years of trying.

She carried it around, then took it down into my horse pen and buried it.
 

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I do everything possible to prevent situations where Kili might catch a critter (as it sounds like you do too) because I may never forgive her if she killed something. Rationally, sure that's what she was bred to do... but rational and emotional reactions are separate, and emotionally I'd be really upset. I think it's a totally normal and empathetic response.
 

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I do everything possible to prevent situations where Kili might catch a critter (as it sounds like you do too) because I may never forgive her if she killed something. Rationally, sure that's what she was bred to do... but rational and emotional reactions are separate, and emotionally I'd be really upset. I think it's a totally normal and empathetic response.
Lol yes this is me. I'm just so sad for the poor bunny. And now Jax is seriously obsessed. He's still trying to get outside. I'm only walking him out there on a leash until we get rid of it, but he keeps going near there and staring and planting his feet down, does not want to go inside when I pull on his leash to head back in. This should be fun :rolleyes:
 
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One of ours has killed groundhogs, a rat, rabbits and countless birds. He'd do the same to small dogs, cats and pet critters too if we gave him the chance so we must be mindful. Once he kills something he gets a little obsessed about it for the rest of the day but calms down by the next day.

He really has mastered the art of killing birds, last summer every time he came in he had a bird in his mouth the birds eventually stopped coming to the yard lol. He figured out that if waited long enough they'd perch in one of the trees and on the lower branches, once they did he jumped at the tree they'd take flight and he'd jump again and catch them as they did.

The rat was in our heat vents when we got back after a week away. Right away he went mad at the vents in the house, couldn't figure out what his problem was, he ripped one vent cover out of the wall, dove in and came out with a dead/unconscious rat in his mouth. We took it outside and finished it off just incase it wasn't truly dead.

Groundhogs are the plague around here. He'll watch from the windows and when he sees them and lets us know we let him out to get them. We ask if he wants some groundhog soup to which he responds with a shriek and jumping at the door. They cause so much damage, so either we kill them when we can or he does. He's killed a few now and gets quite proud of himself. It's always quick. Others he's given them a good chase/fright and is always digging up and crawling into their holes.
 

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If it makes you feel any better, based on your description it probably died instantly when he kill-shook it and just had post mortem spasms after, but didn't feel it anymore.
 
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Gambit is an excellent hunter. I let him, since I'm tired of the squirrels chewing on my car. It doesn't bother me at all. However, I was pretty humiliated the day that he tried to present a dead squirrel to my hippie vegan neighbor. She did not see it as the gift that he meant it as.
 

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Gambit is an excellent hunter. I let him, since I'm tired of the squirrels chewing on my car. It doesn't bother me at all. However, I was pretty humiliated the day that he tried to present a dead squirrel to my hippie vegan neighbor. She did not see it as the gift that he meant it as.
Lol, that is too funny. Lily still tries to check the tree she got a dumb squirrel at this one park... the one time I took her kill and threw it in the garbage because its in the city next to a playground and I didn't want to get in trouble with types like your neighbor by letting her eat it in public. That was YEARS ago and she still checks that stupid tree every single time we go there. Lol, silly dog.
 

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When my dogs kill vermin it does not really bother me, but the reason for that is probably because I grew up on a farm and we had ratter terriers. It was their job to kill rodents and there where a lot of them.

Teagan killed a vole a few weeks ago. We call her a sadist because she could care less about the animals after it's dead. She just walks away. Ha ha
 

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Oh my, that unlucky rabbit. At least it looks like it received a quick... death...? LOL. Jackson's like, "Let me dance and bellow the song of my people around my first kill!!"

I'd be secretly pleased if my dog were fast enough to snatch a wild rabbit. :eek: How agile of him.
I was like that the first time Bear killed a rabbit, he used to be able to catch them on his own, but after the second, and the third and so on, it doesn't phase me anymore. I did find some babies in the yard and I did set them free, but the adults? They are on their own. They come in at night to eat the grass I guess, most of them know to be gone by the time the dogs go out.

Now Josefina and Bear team up :/
 

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