Tug of war is my job when I’m visiting my Dad. He can do it a bit but he’s pretty old and gets tired quickly, so his dog is always badgering me to do it. And I’m amazed at the leverage that little dog can apply; they’re amazingly strong at it.
They’re still wolf derivatives, even after all this time.
Our rat terrier mutt mix routinely destroys mice or rabbits he finds in the park where we frequently walk. He’ll snuffle them out and dig like crazy until he can clamp his mouth on them and shake them to rags. Violent!
Mine bark a big game when they get squirrels or rats cornered on top of a pergola in our backyard but they are hopeless on actual execution. It’s my job to come out and get the prey to decide jumping is the better course of action and then the dogs do a canine keystone cops job of trying to catch it.
Dogs are better at killing rats than pretty much any other animal. The benefit of the mink is that it can go anywhere a rat can go and either kill them there, or flush them out.
Reading the start of your post I had this picture in my head of you on one end of the pull rope toy and your dad on the other, exuberantly tugging and shaking away at it but quickly wearing down. I was like “C’mon @scottagibson, let the old boy win once in awhile!”. Maybe some scritches between the ears afterwards too, I bet he loves that.
Hey, not everyone wants to bond over tossing the football around in the back yard.
I was dogsitting a great dane and she suddenly bolted to the back of the yard one night and attacked something. Killed a rat that was desperately trying to flee.
She’s such a sweet dog, you’d never guess she’s a killer.
Lol his teeth probably aren’t what they were, poor fellow. Time for a biscuit!
My 70lb standard poodle does the shaking thing too, and it’s pretty scary when a fairly large dog is doing it, in utter silence, just an implacable look of concentration.
Yup. I’ve seen posters for the J Balvin and Saweetie meals at the McDonalds near me.
I don’t know who either of those people are because I’m old.
I saw Mariah dip a nugget in a tv ad today! I doubt she actually ate it though.
How to demonstrate you don’t understand what a “proverb” is:
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The guy who’s father is leading the charge to become a shithole country has thoughts on stopping America from becoming a shithole country.
I nominate her for a Herman Cain Award!
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I made it 15 seconds into that video. What was y’all’s high scores?
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All the way through. Though I got a work call at about ivermectin so there was a sanity pause.
On one level I admire the effort Weird Karen put into this.
