Originally posted by Stenograsaurus:
<STRONG> I can't keep him in the house more. He LOVES to be outside. I'm worried that this is something that I cannot change and I'll just have to learn to live with it. Does anyone have any advice?</STRONG>
Is your yard fenced in at all? If it is, maybe you could add an extra fine screen around the bottom to keep small critters out?

My beloved first dog, Sheba, killed anything she could catch. The neighborhood cats learned to climb the closest tree, the squirrels and wild rabbits were quick or dead, and there were no woodchucks within miles of my parents home even several years after she died. She was an efficient killer.

That said, my family got her as an adult stray when I was a toddler. I, a strange baby, toddled up to her and yanked her tail with all my might on our first meeting, and she just turned her head and growled very softly, then looked to the adults to rescue her from me. She was, simply put, wonderful with human beings of any size and shape.