And now for a little Thursday morning gross-ness. Consider that your warning. There’s still time to turn away. No? Okay. Here it is:
Tasty morsel #6
In true terrier style, our dog Proudie has quite the kill list. She has killed and eaten, in no particular order, the following poor creatures (that we know about):
- a sparrow, caught in full flight, gulped down in one swallow
- two young squirrels
- a baby bunny
- a young opossum
- a rat (the lovely wet thing seen above)
The preferred method of execution: a firm bite followed by excessive shaking, followed by consumption of the tasty parts. But don’t worry. The veterinarian assures me that this will do her no harm and will not likely pass on disease. The disgust I feel over this is currently making me wretch a little. So this post is done.
Well, with Proudie at the house, I know that Andrew will be safe from cyber-stalking weirdos….!!!!
Eek! Sometimes I’m really glad our cat is indoor only and a total wuss. My labs growing up never did any of that but the cats were ruthless and they liked to present their treasures on the bath mat. Lovely with bleary eyes first thing in the morning. Ahhhhhh pets!
I should have heeded your warning!!!!!!
Gross!!!!!!! Especially that rat!
BLEHHHHHHH!!! Our dog kills stuff too, but I think when she does it, she honestly thinks she’s playing with the creature and then just carries its dead little body around in her mouth like it’s a toy. So gross.
One time when my husband was out of town (of COURSE it happened when he was out of town), our dog ran into our house carrying a headless squirrel. I screamed and screamed and screamed, and then came very close to burning my whole house down because of how gross it was. (I wanted to type HEADLESS SQUIRREL in all caps like that for effect, but I just read someone’s comments on another blog about being annoyed when people use all caps. But for real, if ever there were a time for all caps, it would be for this.)
“Proudie” living up to her name! The fact that you actually captured the victim on film is the totally gross part! My dog Riley was a “Mouser” — remembering him coming to the door w/a tail hanging from his mouth! Ugh.
I think I’d be OK with my dog — if I had one — catching rats. Better for the rat to be dead, than inside my pantry nibbling on my food. Now I might feel differently about sparrows…
Ugh!!! I can’t believe you had time to take a picture of it!
ajsdfl;kajsf;sa NOOOO!!! I am impressed that you were even able to take a picture, Lauren. A wet rat… vomiting now… I think that’s the worst on the list.