Dakota loves to find birds and sneak up on them when they're in the tree in our backyard. Brian told me that once when he was watching, she snuck up to the tree, and lunged for the branch and grabbed a bird right off of the branch. I guess she took it straight to the ground and pinned it like it was a toy. Just as she went to fling it across the yard so she could go chase it, Brian told her to drop it so she did and looked up at him like, "What dad, I'm just playing with my new toy".

That was the second time that one of us found her with a bird. There was once that I was on the phone with Amy, my sister, and I looked out in the backyard where Dakota was playing to find her playing with something bigger, but just like she plays with the rocks (picking up the rock, flinging it across the yard, and chasing it to do it all over again). As I looked closer, it was too big to be a rock, but I thought it was leaves. Then, it fell too hard and seemed to heavy to be leaves. At a look closer, is was a dead bird. I don't think she did it from checking it out, but I got it from her Immediately and got her inside and it cleaned up and inspected as I was cleaning it up to make sure Dakota didn't eat any of it and that she didn't kill it.

So, Dakota LOVES chasing birds and trying to play with them. However, they tend to stay away from our yard now when she is out.