Dash brought me a present!

[DashellKc]

I was letting Dash in the house and he had something in his mouth. He ran into another room. I got there and he was sitting in front of me with a dead bird in his mouth. He took off like a wild man. I chased him all over the house and finally got it away. How gross. I cannot even give him his nightly snuggles. EWW! I still love the little bugger but, atleast bring me a stick or a flower.

Taylor and Dash

[kayharley]

I know exactly how you feel but we must remember that it's in their blood and characteristic of this breed we love so much.

I had a chipmunk that lived in our stone wall that I became friendly with (pre-Elliott days) I would feed him peanuts or other goodies on a daily basis. It got to be such a close relationship that when I'd sit outside on our bench, "Chipper" would come running down the lawn and jump up next to me. I could actually call him and he'd pop up to perch on his favorite rock.

You can imagine my saddness when last year I saw Elliott with Chipper in his mouth. Of course he was dead but what could I do? Elliott was so proud of himself so I couldn't scould him. Chipper was buried and I now will not make friends with any neighborhood critters.

[Milopup]

Has anyone's pup ever eaten a critter like a mouse? When it gets cold, we sometimes see a mouse outside our house, and it drives our pup crazy. I am worried he will eat one and get sick.

[bubba]

Cooper has caught mice, but never eaten one to my knowledge...he is always more than happy to bring it to me and drop it at my feet!!!

pat.

[cairnrescueleague]

When my senior cairn Chelsea was still alive, my younger cairn Sammy would kill them, but Chelsea would eat them. We live above a wetlands area, so these are country mice. I might worry in a more populated area that the mice might have gotten into poison. I'll never forget the first time I saw those little feet and tail disappearing into Chelsea's mouth. Down the hatch!

[bradl]

Boy howdy. A dachshund friend and I were out in the field ratting in falling-down buildings and trailing bunnies and whatnot and we swapped dogs so I could have an experience with a seasoned field dachsie. We were walking along whent the Dachsie grabbed something off the ground and I saw a tail working it's way down. I found out that at least this stranger isn't able to take a mouse back out of the mouth of standard Dachshund. The owner lauged and said he ate stuff like from time to time.

Like cairnrescueleague, I'd be more worried about eating a mouse that had been poisoned. We lost a cat that way to the barn behind the house I grew up in.

[Eliz222]

We have mice in our wood pile and I have caught our two chewing on small skulls every once in awhile.....ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[Milopup]

Ugh....I am so so afraid of rodents. We dont use poison around our house, and actually never saw them before (we did see a dead rat after a raccoon had finished with him ). This October was the first time we saw a mouse - it was a small one hiding under one of our bushes , and boy could our pup sense its presence.