Posted: 10/12/2011 1:30:08 PM EDT
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My dog hunts small game.
She catches squirrels and rabbits. I took her first squirrel away from her, we had a fire going, so I tossed it in the coals for a while, then gave it to her. Cooked squirrel = happy dog. Last night, out for a walk, she caught a rabbit, and ran straight home, buried it in her yard. I know she will dig the rabbit up at some point and eat it, raw, rotten and festered. What could go wrong? Do you let your dogs keep their hunting trophies? Risk of Worms? What else do I have to worry about? We damn sure arent running out of rabbits or squirrels..... |
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You're worrying too much. You didn't need to cook that squirrel either.
Growing up in the country back home, our dogs used to catch, kill, and chew on all kinds of critters. I couldn't tell you how many groundhogs they've gotten. None of them ever got sick from it. |
| Let me tell you about the time my dog got ahold of a quail that I forgot stuffed in a recess of my hunting coat. The amount of disgusting rotten puked up week old rotten quail guts and feathers that I got to scrape up off about 4 seperate puke piles damn near made me sick. Do yourself a favor and don't let the dog bury dead stuff. It may decide it smells tasty after it starts to rot. |
Mine like squirrels too. It's best not to watch one eat one.  The go for the head first, I guess cause it's crunchy on the outside and creamy on the inside. The eat the teeth and all!  Sometimes mine throw up fur and/or bones. Once my older beagle ate an entire squirrel and was so full and bloated that night . . . she kept panting, groaning and kind of wiggling around on the bed. I put a fan on her for awhile. She was fine the next day. Now I keep an eye on them so they don't eat the whole thing. I usually chop them in half and give each one half a squirrel. I have a doggie door and have to block them from coming into the house and hiding squirrel pieces. 
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My brothers lab/rot mix caught a rabbit in my parent's back yard during thanksgiving dinner a couple years ago.
I laughed my ass off because the sister-in-law is a <edit> Rabbit had fleas. Dog got fleas. Fleas went home with them. I'm not sure how they exterminated fleas from their house. |
