ACK! Bella just ate a mouse!

[Pam]

Thank you for trying to help me figure out what this critter was! I am thinking probably a mole, especially based on the picture that Husky_Mom posted. We do have opossums back in the woods so I hadn't really ruled that out either. Bella is certainly no angel. She has gotten into trouble like this before. Here are two pictures that I posted a few years ago when she got a large bird. It sort of looked like a dove. I was able to get it away from her by offering a treat.


She did eat a very young bird once right in front of me. Not that I like her eating birds, but the thought of her eating a rodent just gags me. Thank goodness she didn't. For those of you who thought I was brave to scoop it up - well, you have to do what you have to do. I couldn't risk her deciding it might be a tasty treat after all.

[kt_luvs_kitties]

Yup, it is a newborn mole baby Rip little guy...

I am glad Bella did not eat it!

Look around your shed when you can, there are more than likely others. Hope she does not get them too.

If Joey did that, I dont know what I would do. Probably faint on the spot.

[imadognut]

Well, I'm kinda new here but I am a solid country gal with dogs that live the country life and kill and eat things alot worse than that. I could post the photo of my JRT cross killing a 5' black snake but maybe that wouldn't be popular.

I would say it "could" be a newborn mole but not knowing the size of it and I bet you didn't get out a tape measure, LOL it looks more like a newborn squirrel as the moles have very long claws and their legs turn out. I know because I think there is a dead one laying out in one of the yard areas of my place right now.

I can also say that my dogs eat EVERYTHING. The JRT catches mice in grain barrels by the dozens and just swallows them whole (eat your heart out kitties) but I also have fed my dogs raw meat diet for 9 years so they are use to eating raw things. It wouldn't hurt you dog but could have made her tummy upset if she wasn't use to it. I bet there have been a few gross things our dogs have eaten that we weren't aware of and probably wouldn't want to know and it probably didn't make them sick.

Just my 2 cents

Cheers,
Carole & her gang
Truegrit Farm

[scrain2329]

YYYYUUUUCCCCCKKKKK mole for sure. They are NASTY!
Little kaysha thinks they are the coolest things to dig up THE MIDDLE OF THE GRASS!
She is a great mouser, shrewer, and attack barn swallow catcher haha.
Sometimes they jsut cant help it!
At the barn all the aussies get going after one mouse, or shrew, a race who can get there first. usually its just chased away since 5 jaws cant catch a tiny mouse in one
Silly babies!
Sorry you had to deal with that though. EEEWWWW