Thankful for a soft mouth

[Judy, Meg & Polly Wolly Doodle]

Just took Meg out to her pen and she actually stalked (I will recognize this action next time) and then pounced on a baby robin that couldn't muster up the energy or ability to fly away.  Thankfully she has a soft mouth and was just holding the bird to the ground with her mouth trying to figure out how to pick it up.  Meg is a big girl and it took all I had to pull her away.  We have a second, smaller, pen for her that we only use when the big one is muddy so I was able to wrestle over to it to do her business.  Taking her back in past the big pen was interesting, she could here the bird in there and she REALLY wanted to go back in there!  Poor little robin probably had a heart attack!!!!!!!!!

I suspect the first time she sees a rabbit I best let go and save a shoulder...;-}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

JD also has a soft mouth, and very little if any prey drive. He has had more than one baby bunny in his big mouth and all were physically fine after I told him "drop it!", although I can't vouch for their nervous systems, lol!

[F, Calla & Luca]

We had a fledgling robin that survived a long trip to the screen porch. I eventually took it to the vet to raise it until it was old enough to survive.

[Judy, Meg & Polly Wolly Doodle]

It appears to have finally flown away or hopped through the fence somehow.  I am not seeing it but will make DH do a search and rescue when he comes home just in case.  He told me yesterday she came on one while he had her out but he put it back in the nest.  Crazy spring animals

 

[Stella]

Unfortunately, neither of my two have a soft mouth when it comes to wildlife.  More than once I have had to stop them digging after a mole, and they also caught and "played with" one once.  By the time my husband got it it was grievously injured and he had to dispatch it :(

[Leslie and Halas]

Halas has a mouth like Jaws.  I don't know what he'd do with a live bird.  He'd probably club it with his paw, and then roll on it, so maybe he'd leave his mouth out of the process.

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Tara has a soft mouth too TG. When she finds a bird on the ground she pushes it with her nose and looks at me for advice.  Which of course is always "LEAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  LOL

[Sheila & Finnley]

Thank goodness you were right there. Something tells me the ending might not have been so pleasant for you, or baby robin if you hadn't been so close by ! I have no doubt that Finnley would do the very same thing in a heartbeat. She was a monster after I save a baby kitten recently, and we have cats !!

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

Ben has a soft mouth too.  He's never caught a bird or squirrel before (thank goodness due to his large clumsy nature) but he has caught bugs before and they're almost always still alive.  

[Cathy, Fozzie & Shaggy]

Fozzie has a soft mouth but a hard head!  I was throwing a ball and holding fresh eggs last spring when Fozzie dropped the ball.  I bent down to pick it up, his head popped up and hit my glasses sending them flying.  I was so startled that I reached for the ball and threw it fast to get the dogs to leave the area so I could find my glasses.  The glasses were chipped and pretty bent up but wearable.  Fozzie came back with the ball and dropped it at my feet.  It was then I realized I had thrown an egg not the ball.  The egg was perfectly fine, not a crack! 

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

that is funny!  

[Nina, Phil, Harlow & Lacey]

Too funny.

[Lonnie & Libby Lu]

Libby has a soft mouth, but the only thing we have taken out is socks and handkerchiefs, thank goodness:)   LOL