So I'm hanging out in the garage Sunday night, relaxing with a cigar. The dogs are out in the back yard, sniffing each other's butts (or whatever they do to amuse themselves), and I hear a moderately audible "ka-chang" sound.

I peek out the back door of the garage to see both Jake and Bandit dashing madly to the right.

"Hmmm... must be a pedestrian walking by with a dog".

*ka-chang*

Dogs dash madly to the left.

"A confused jogger?"

*ka-chang*

Dogs to the right, and I see that they're chasing after a rabbit.

"Ah... well, he'll find a hole under the chain-link fence and be off to freedom."

*ka-chang*

Dogs to the left.

"Ah... apparently this rabbit is particularly stupid, and keeps bouncing off the chain-link fence... Still, as long as he doesn't run behind the shed so that the dogs get on either side of him..."

*ka-chang*

Dogs to the right... on either side of the shed... behind which the rabbit has run.

*Grrrr!*

*squeak!*

*sque-!*

"Ah... the hand of Darwin... or in this case, the paw..."

Jake wanders from behind the shed, rabbit in mouth. Bandit bounces around excitedly, knowing that SOMETHING fun just happened but not really sure what (she's a Border Collie - she just likes herding animals).

Jake plops down by the garage door, oblivious to the rain. He likes to catch & kill critters, but he's not much for eating them. As far as he's concerned, that rabbit is just another fuzzy chew toy - albeit with a broken squeaker.

And like a fuzzy chew toy, it's for just holding in your mouth... until someone offers you a tasty pig's ear in trade.

Good boy, Jake.

Posted by: Harvey at 06:27 AM | Comments (15) | Add Comment
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1 One less rabbit in the world... good boy Jake! *grin*

Posted by: Teresa at November 27, 2006 09:15 AM (5UR9t)

2 Harvey, I hope you ate the rabbit. Not as good as shooting them yourself, but hey, rabbit meat is rabbit meat...

Posted by: Tennessee Budd at November 27, 2006 10:40 AM (wXSVh)

3 Back when I had my chow Shadow I used to occasionally find parts of stuff I thought might have been rabbits... or cats... not sure

Posted by: Graumagus at November 27, 2006 10:52 AM (8P21O)

4 BTW, was the "Hug him..." reference from ELmyra of Animaniacs??

Posted by: Graumagus at November 27, 2006 11:13 AM (8P21O)

5 LOL! Harv, you should send that one to saveToby.com as a visible reference for the PETA freaks. In the meantime, you know your dog has freaking kewl skillz to catch a wild bunny. Paw of Darwin or not, them buggers is fast. May El-ahrairah have mercy on his fuzzy soul.

Posted by: shimauma at November 27, 2006 12:30 PM (oH+XM)

6 Wow. I'm glad Happy Dog is too slow to catch most anything.

Posted by: vw bug at November 27, 2006 12:34 PM (FXZgB)

7 Grau - Actually, it was a reference to one (and possibly several) old Bugs Bunny cartoons. The Abominable Snow Rabbit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054593/ for sure, and possibly a few others. The quote probably isn't exact, since I was doing it from memory, and Google mostly turns up other people quoting it from memory, rather than pointing to source material. Shimauma - He's caught other stuff, too. Sometimes with help, sometimes solo. There was a woodchuck that Bandit helped him with, a couple stupid birds that forgot that flying helps avoid predators, and one baby rabbit that needed to be taken out of the gene pool because it was too dumb to get while the gettin' was good. Bug - Jake is normally a lumbering lummox, but he's also pretty good about choosing his angles for cutting off prey during a chase. He's also excellent at delivering that killing neck-bite. Good thing he likes the cats :-/

Posted by: Harvey at November 27, 2006 02:14 PM (L7a63)

8 Holy cow! Way to go Jake!! My dogs could so use some of that vim and vigor...

Posted by: Richmond at November 27, 2006 02:45 PM (e8QFP)

9 Rabbit - it's what's for dinner!

Posted by: Elisson at November 27, 2006 02:46 PM (CJmNQ)

10 Zoe would have loved to been in on that! Give Jake a hug for me. What a good dog. I have eaten rabbit, and no, it doesn't really taste like chicken. Why does everyone tell you that? Frog legs don't taste like chicken, either. Or possum. Dang.

Posted by: pam at November 27, 2006 04:13 PM (l6NIn)

11 My fat dog sticks to picking up dead, squished squirrels from the road and prancing home proudly with them.

Posted by: sticks at November 27, 2006 05:53 PM (Ak7WA)

12 ... Jake rocks... you need to bring him down here to Tennessee and teach him to catch squirrels...... and cats.....

Posted by: Eric at November 27, 2006 07:41 PM (NlzwQ)

13 Harvey, Bring Jake down to Indiana. We have a rabbit epidemic down here. Good Boy!!!

Posted by: Jerry at November 27, 2006 10:40 PM (ZWD2Z)

14 Eric, I've got Tennessee's squirrels handled. I'm buying a new shotgun this evening.

Posted by: Tennessee Budd at November 28, 2006 11:28 AM (wXSVh)

15 Cody only ate the baby ones. I guess he was just a finicky eater. :-) Yeah Jake!!!

Posted by: Tammi at November 28, 2006 01:20 PM (Bitcf)

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