Have your dogs eaten a bird?

[cali]

lol the birds and bunnys are extremly fast around here, and the birds are friggen brave! the birds actually tease my dogs, like swooping down really fast in front of there face but so close that the dogs have no time to react, they will dance in front of the dogs just behind the fence, they will land on the other side of the yard when the dogs chase them they fly to the other side of the yard and so on lol the dogs have only cought one bird and they did not eat it, they just killed it and left it. Rabbits they chase but the wild rabbits here are extremly fast around here, so the dogs chase em but the rabbits remain a mile ahead lol I would actually be suprised if a greyhound could catch the rabbits around here lol

[jennifert9]

Duncan has never caught a bird and if he did I don't know if he would eat it, or just kill it....
He tries very hard however....It's actually funny becuase he doesn't mind small birds like sparrows or songbirds in general. But, man, if those crows or doves come in his yard..... He chases them onto the roof and then barks at them and tries to climb the house to get them....I don't know why it's only the bigger ones....he sits and watches the small ones eat out of the bird feeder and on the ground....

[Suki Wingy]

i found Nino in the backyard with a dead bluejay in his mouth! I don't think he killed it, though.

[Vette]

Unless the bird ate a rodent of some kind that might have been posiend....thats the only thing i worry about when my dog finds any kind of 'treasures'

[animal_rescue]

I've never seen any rabbits in our backyard. But the dogs love to chase the birds and squirrels. We do our best to make sure they don't kill any of the animals, mainly because we foster wild animals, so it would be even harder to keep them in the house with the dogs. I know one time a squirrel electricuted itself and the dogs picked up, they dropped it almost right away since 5 REALLY loud voices came at them!

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

Never. Tango tries to herd birds when they come into the yard and Tia's afraid of them lol.

[Amber]

nope. The only thing my dogs eat are flys.

[GiantSchnauzer]

Originally posted by Oggyflute
Flute actually jumped up and swatted one out of the air once. I managed to rescue it before she inflicted any real damage to it. But we sure don't get a lot of birds in our yard know.

Zoey has done the same thing but I didn't save the bird in time. Another time I had her off leash and she started to take off after a rabbit. Thankfully, her recall is perfect.

[tikeyas_mom]

Tikeya has the common "Prey drive" instinct... I thought I was the only one with a prey drivin dog here.... *odd sigh of relief..*

Tikeya has givin a bunny a heart attack, she did NOT bite it.. just chased it.

She once caught a blue jay out of the sky, mid air.. i couldent believe it... she just jumped and got it..

poor thing. i think its neck broke...

I know she has caught several wild mice. she just plays with them, she doesnt eat them.

Tikeya doesnt like kittens either...

When ever i take her to the petstore to see the rodents and stuff, she always acts so prey drivin, her ears purk right up and she just stares with a slight wine to her voice, she will lick her lips... I dont like it when she acts like that..

[schteve_d]

Yep, hate to say it (I was so freakin' mad at him that day), I won't go into detail but Buddy can swim faster than ducklings. He didn't eat them, but.....

[Shelteez2]

Given the chance I'm sure the shelties would catch something. Especially Emily. She has such a high prey drive. She would love nothing more than to chase down....well anything that ran from her....LOL
She used to love flushing rabbits from near by my mom's work, but mean old me wouldn't let her chase them. LOL

I'm not sure what she would do if she ever caught anything though. She might kill it, but I doubt she'd eat it.....

[senorita02]

No my dogs have never eaten a bird, but i will tell you i caught Face with a cat in his mouth, and Rita tried to get in on it, luckily i yelled just in time he let him go and the cat was fine, i returned him to his home, but the people to owned the cat , let him roam the streets. Not such a good idea, everyone on my street has a dogs almost and the cat came into our yard. Regardless i was very angry at my dogs that day

[ramanth]

Not to my knowledge, but I'm sure she would if given the chance.

She gets this wild, crazed look in her eye when she's near the rodents or birds at Petco. It's kinda creepy.