You know what’s worse than having your 5-month old puppy run into the house and jump on the couch with the back half of a dead rabbit? Having to clean up after your other dog vomits up the undigestible parts of the front half of the rabbit.
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My 11-lb. min-pin has caught and killed two squirrels. One was a young (but not a baby) squirrel, which I managed to get away from her shortly after the kill. The other was a full-grown squirrel, which, by the time I found it was missing its head, one leg, and one shoulder.
She also has caught and killed two possums (brought them into the house, one into my bed), and she has caught numerous birds in flight. Then there was the rat tail I found in the back yard…oh, I hope the rest of the rat got away!
It’s good to know that dogs will catch zombie squirrels, too.
I dont know but I’m with them. Chasing them is 3/4 of the fun.
I wish Scylla would repost his dog story! An awesome story of an exemplary dog, IMHO.
Oh yeah. A collie we had was super smart. She would wait until the squirrel was between two trees and charge. The squirrel had a moments hesitation for which tree to run to and that usually did him in.
I have a pointer border collie mix right now that has got a few ground squirrels.
Catching a squirrel is Lilith’s highest ambition. I think she achieve it one of these days, but not at the dog park. Those squirrels have had too much practice.
My dog caught a chipmunk a while back, and I remember my Aunt’s dog gypsy used to catch squirrels all the time when I was a kid.
Looks like somebody’s dog caught a zombie.
This is a very timely zombie.
Just a couple of nights ago my 2 year old Lab caught a young bunny in the back yard. She thought it was great … a wiggly squeaky toy. The boys and I were a bit freaked out and she would not follow the “Leave it” command (She is normally quite good with that) She would catch it and then toss it up and chase it some more. In the end she was very puzzled about why her toy didn’t work anymore. 
I think the worst part was that the 13 year old wanted a picture of the poor thing to show the guys at school … He was very disappointed when I forbid him from posting it on Facebook.
Thanks, I needed to share my freak-out somewhere .
My parents have a yellow lab that chases squirrels and other tiny creatures. She caught one once and suddenly stopped and looked at us like, “I didn’t think this far ahead! What am I supposed to do now?” and then gingerly set it down again. When it started running she took off after it again despite having just confused the hell out of herself by not knowing what to do with it the first time.
My sister/parents had a dalmatian who was a bird hunter. My mom still remembers when he had a bird in his mouth and came to take a drink of water in the lake. He set the bird next to him in the lake. The bird sank, of course, but the dog didn’t understand where it had gone. As long as he was around, the backyard was free of birds and squirrels. The dogs my parents have now are rat and mice hunters except for Tess who chases butterflies.
My brussel griffon has not only gifted me with two squirrels, he has brought in and destroyed numerous birds. I have no idea how he catches these things but I just wish he wouldn’t drag them in through the doogy door before he decides to tear them apart. YUCK!
My English Springer Spaniel female, Emily, has now caught two grey squirrels within the course of the last week. She proudly kills them and then brings the prey on the deck to show me. She will leave the animals there all day until I come home from work. She is so proud of herself. She’s fast, but I’m not sure how she’s getting the squirrels. My black lab female, Jane, just looks on…but then again she’s a lab.
Forget it. Zombie.
Zombie squirrels? Well, you can just rock me to sleep tonight. 
Our cat, Caligula, could kill a squirrel. We used to let him out in the yard on a leash. He was an ambush predator. Never tried to stalk his prey. He’d just lay there in the grass until the squirrel came a little too close and then he’d spring.
My dog always catches every single squirrel she chases and then the two of them enjoy a bottomless bowl of ice cream and nuts.
But only in her dreams.
Poodle, Standard (here shown at half growth), can run down that story and a half flight of stairs, catch a squirrel or chipmunk an acre away before it reaches the safety of the woods.
She then tends to flip it in the air and break its neck, then present it to us. It’s not encouraged behavior.
She can also outrun a flying, hard thrown frisbee over the same distance.
Note: The previous poodle (her uncle) would catch and pin said little critters of nature with one mighty paw, not sure what to do next.
Cats are perfectly safe around both. The previous one caught a deer once, though.