Frustrated Dog
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exactly....Victor got bit through the back of the tongue, all the way through a month ago. I had my pet squirrel bite through chicken wire like it was butter once. ANd if the baby is hurt it that is just sad. THe whole thing makes me sad. IF the dog is uninjured, it's a lucky dog. I doubt the baby faired so well. NOt something i want to see on a Sunday morning, but i guess that's just me. IF i was the one taking the photo i would have yanked my dog out of there, not clicked away.
Mine do hunt - but they don't play with their prey. It's quick and over and eaten in the natural order of things, but most modern lines of dogs just don't have that instinct anymore, they have a vestigial idea that hunting is something they do, but they're stuck in the puppy-ish stage where they are having fun playing with the prey, unintentionally savaging and terrifying the animal.
IT's possible the baby suffered rib fracture, who knows, it doesn't take much at all to harm them when they are that tiny. Abner the little baby i raised with Liza i believe had a dog's foot come down on him, just once. I had handed the box i carried them in to a woman who said she would hold it while i got the dogs out of the car. WHy she set it on the ground i will never know. ONe of the dogs stepped in the box, granted it was an accident, but the result was fatal. I lost him only minutes after that. I did not hear the breathing that would make me believe it was a collapsed lung, but it could have easily been any kind of internal bleed out.. IT made me ill to see the dog being the only one considered here. IT wasn't to teach him a lesson, they don't learn that way. IT was a baby and as far as i am concerned in no way is thta a joking manner to be harmed for a photograph. The baby probably died a hard death. THe dog is lucky it didn't get bit badly, so the dog was at risk too. Real funny huh
I know Victor swallowed a lot of blood, i don't know if the squirrel that bit him hit a bigger vessel in the tongue or not, only that he was in a lot of pain, and could do nothing but squeeze his eyes shut hard and keep swallowing until it stopped. He didn't learn anything either. I am lucky it did't take a chunk out of his lip. AT least a tongue injury tends to heal quickly.
A little mercy for the babies of the world, would it have hurt to grab the dog away quickly and let the mother do her job? A dog that knows what it is doing would have made quick work of it. Neither right nor wrong, it is the way nature works. BUt a dog like this, it could have all been avoided and that is what bothers me most. Maybe the damage was already done, but still.
I Found one this summer about that size that had fallen from a tree and i don't know if he was hit by a car or not. His pelvis was obviously broken by the flat way he was on the pavement and the fact that there was no movement to either of his back feet. I finished right then and there to stop his agony and right before i did he looked at me and cried a sound that i can still hear and wish i didn't. IT broke my heart, he was so little and he knew what was about to happen. AT least he died quickly. I didn't know what was wrong with Abner, only that he was fading right before my eyes when he had been just fine not 15 minutes ago. IF i had known, he would have had his spirit sent to the wind the same way.
I know Victor swallowed a lot of blood, i don't know if the squirrel that bit him hit a bigger vessel in the tongue or not, only that he was in a lot of pain, and could do nothing but squeeze his eyes shut hard and keep swallowing until it stopped. He didn't learn anything either. I am lucky it did't take a chunk out of his lip. AT least a tongue injury tends to heal quickly.
A little mercy for the babies of the world, would it have hurt to grab the dog away quickly and let the mother do her job? A dog that knows what it is doing would have made quick work of it. Neither right nor wrong, it is the way nature works. BUt a dog like this, it could have all been avoided and that is what bothers me most. Maybe the damage was already done, but still.
I Found one this summer about that size that had fallen from a tree and i don't know if he was hit by a car or not. His pelvis was obviously broken by the flat way he was on the pavement and the fact that there was no movement to either of his back feet. I finished right then and there to stop his agony and right before i did he looked at me and cried a sound that i can still hear and wish i didn't. IT broke my heart, he was so little and he knew what was about to happen. AT least he died quickly. I didn't know what was wrong with Abner, only that he was fading right before my eyes when he had been just fine not 15 minutes ago. IF i had known, he would have had his spirit sent to the wind the same way.
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^^^ Exactly my thought, especially on seeing the second picture. That squirrel's claws were way too close to that Lab's eye. :yikes:
^^^ Same thing Marley did ... to him hunting was serious business, not a game. He never ate his kills but didn't play with them either. Anything Marley caught was so quickly dispatched they likely never knew what hit them. Very different than the playful attitude on the Lab in those pictures. That dog don't hunt ... he was playing with the squirrel.
^^^ Same thing Marley did ... to him hunting was serious business, not a game. He never ate his kills but didn't play with them either. Anything Marley caught was so quickly dispatched they likely never knew what hit them. Very different than the playful attitude on the Lab in those pictures. That dog don't hunt ... he was playing with the squirrel.