Hi everyone, I witnessed the "true" BARF diet today lol
My 11 week old lurcher pup, Kloud, threw me into a momentary state of panic today. A swift flew into the patio door, was killed instantly, and flopped in a spread winged heap on the patio. I was standing by the patio door at the time, and Steve was by the kitchen door. By the time we had taken two or three steps forward, Kloud had swallowed the bird whole, and backwards tail first. I fully expected her to start choking, but no, it went straight down in one gulp, and it didnt come back up again.!!! I did phone the vet, as I was a little worried about all those feathers, beak and claws, but he assured me it would digest. Natural feeding in the extreme, I think.

tell you what Phill, if he keeps that up, he won't half be "cheap" to feed!!!
Dawn.

roflol"cheap" indeed :)

Now that's what you call 'fresh':D

Actually though are birds having trouble flying this year???? On Sunday morning the kids went into the back garden and discovered a dead bird, which sadly must have suffered the same fate as yours. Son wanted me to call the vet, bless him. They both stood guard to prevent Dollar getting it until hubby went out. Then on my walk Dollar goes into some trees startles a bird who flies out of trees missing my head by an inch if that:D Monday I'm getting out of my car on the scool run and have yet another near miss:D The odd one fine, but three in two days, I reckon they're out to get me;)

Hmmmmmmmmm, didnt star in a Alfred Hitchcock film did you?:)

Thanks.....I feel sooooooo much better now:)

ROFL That is what I thought Philippa :D :D
Gina

Phil, must be a hound thing. See [link http://www.champdogs.co.uk/cgi-bin/board/topic_show.pl?tid=9252&hilite=corrib#52800]this post re Corrib :-)[/link]

Heck sharon...a partridge!!! I was really worried to start with, I was quite sure she was going to choke after all shes only a little scrap, but it didnt appear to touch the sides.

I think Ihave maybe already told you this but my cat recently arrived in the garden with a rabbit the same size as him or 90% he killed it ate the whole thing no kidding. Left nothing..

My husband , myself and my daughter sat with our mouths wide open..He came in later and had his tea..

I wormed him that night and he was happy as Larry.

Pam

Ohhhh pam, you must have been gobsmacked.

I thought my cats were bad eating the mice they catch :)

and he still ate his tea afterwards?

Theresa

Yes he did, greedy little so and so!!

Must admit my schips are having a field day at the moment with their on the foot BARF diet. The house next door has been empty for almost 4 years now, can't be sold till the owners cats have died.

The garage HAD a large mouse village growing in there with traps being of little use - the foolish animals decided they'd take a short cut across my dogs yard! It took them less than a week being out at about 11pm to clear the lot up with the cats sitting on the garage roof just watching! Must admit the chicken wings stayed in the freezer for a couple of weeks an overweight schip is not a pretty sight lol.

Yes having the same problem here! If the birds are not flying into the house for a nice puddy cat to eat the cats are bringing in bunnies! And the same size as them yuk!

Julieann

PS Pics are excellent. Tried to reply but I kept getting an error..Thanks.

BFN Pam

See when he done it i was sitting gobsmacked at the door I didn't know whether to run out screamimg or not LOL

I was sacred to LOL

Anyway he was kind enought to leave me no mess whatsoever.

My doughter ( 11) thought it was " Cool"

Pam

Phoebie caught a mole the other day - didn't try to eat it though. She just thought it was a new type of squeaky toy !
At least it didn't cover her with fleas like the hedgehog Sam thought was a prickly ball and insisted on carrying round :P

lol, A hedgehog, omg....hehehe

stop laughing - it wasn't funny :D
It was midnight one night and he wouldn't come in when called which is very unusual. Went to find him and he came trotting up carrying the damn thing. His head was alive with fleas jumping :shudder: so it was a frontline treatment in the middle of the night !!!
I suppose he was only doing his job as a retriever but I've been trying to convince him I'm not keen on presents of hedgehogs, winged pigeons, adult mixy rabbits, healthy baby rabbits, fledgling birds and the like !! He presents them to me wonderfully and they are uninjured and I'm left wondering what to do with them :P

(((((((((( still laughing)))))))))))) What about a nice "mixed game" pie?

roflol :D

Hi Sarah, with 8 labs & 1 mongrel(who taught them to hunt) I`m very familiar with moles dead, alive, half dead, half eaten & totally eaten :) Don`t worry, mine are still alive & fit to carry on mole catching as long as the moles are around to catch! Keep a little plastic bag on you so you can pop your gift in it.
Christine2

I don't mind when they are dead or maimed, it's when they are unharmed and take off at speed across the kitchen followed by four yelling hounds. Jackie H

Hi Jackie, Have you heard of a breed of dog that retrieves and kills spiders? I can take the moles, rats , mice, birds, slugs, poo eating dogs, anything, but please, pretty please,can someone breed a dog that kills spiders!!!

Philippa,

I will send my Lab to you she eats spiders along with most other things she thinks she can eat.

Karen

Oh yuck Karen, but thanks, we seem to have a plague of them at the moment!!!!! ((((((((( shudders)))))))))Hope you are keeping well and fit, not long to go now.

I have a cat who regularly brings in live and unharmed mice and drops them on the living room carpet! I then have all the dogs going mental trying to get to the mouse as I try and rescue it from under the bookcase or other inaccessible place!
One night, the mouse ran into the kitchen, and before I could stop them, my Whippet and Lurcher chased it into the indoor kennel. When it reached the corner, and could not escape, the mouse suddenly spun round to face them, with a look as if to say 'come on then, if you think you're hard enough!'
They both jumped back in alarm, and stood not knowing what to do, while I stepped in to rescue him and put him over the fence into the field!
Liz

This really started my day off with a smile. Fancy a little mouse keeping a whippet and a lurcher at bay!!!! ;) :)

Phillippa,

My GSD Jakey will track and eat spiders on command :)

He loves them, I just point at them and that's it !!

Don't do it too often though

Theresa

Ooooooo, please can I borrow him? :)

I'd hire out Samma to you. Small (15 pounds) much better than a lurcher or another large dog racing around your kitchen. She kills moths, spiders, birds (but only on command), mice, and any other rodentia that dares grace the household or yard :D
Chienne will even alert you to birds (sparrow mobs, Magpie or Grackle) landing in your yard and will chase them off. She has learned to ignore the smaller songbirds. :D :D

At least here, I don't have to worry about rattlesnakes or black widow spiders getting to them :(

Rattlesnakes I can cope with, but Black Widows!!! (((( climbs down from the curtains)))))) Fancy living in Aus. with spiders under the toilet seat.Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

The one good thing about Black Widows, is that they don't move around much or very fast. They like to stay put.
But it was a shock moving the Barb. grill away from the wall before moving from NM and seeing about 8-10 of them on the wall. Very large. Brrrrr. Nope, didn't kill them. Too scary and very disrespectful.
I swished them into a huge jar with a broom and took them out into the desert. (200 meters away). Had to -- No males around. :( Typical :rolleyes: :D

Well, for that act of bravery, I think you deserve a medal :)
I hereby award you the SERUP Medal. (Spider Elimination and Removal Under Pressure) :)

Awwwww :o :o :o but still rofl :D :D

Eoghania-
When you mentioned Black Widow spiders, it reminded me of when I was a kid, we lived in Texas, and my mum found my collection of Black Widows in the shed- all carefully stored in jars! She went mental- but at least she wasn't quite as hysterical as the day she dropped my brother's lunchbox on the kitchen floor, and about 10 scorpions spilled out, after he'd collected them on his way home from school!! Never seen anyone jump on a chair so quickly!
Liz

Hi yes mine do, retrieve and kill spiders that is, the only trouble they are inclined to do it leg by leg. Jackie H

Hi Jackie, I dont care how they do it, just as long as they do!! Not one of my lurchers or wolfie will look at a spider twice. Perhaphs they are like their mum and have an irrational fear of the little crawlies.!!

Philippa, you did not train them properly, perhaps you should see a behaviourist in spider catching. :):) JH

Oh dear, falling short on my dog training abilities yet agin roflol :)

Jackie, lovely thoughy - Phil's dogs all attending a canine behaviourist to be behaviourally modified as spider catchers, and Phil herself seeing a human psychiatrist/psychologist for behavioural therapy to desensitise her to the crawlies. When I was a student, a lad in my year always claimed that he was only doing medicine so that he could then become a psychiatrist/analyst, move to a warm part of the US, and become rich. He succeeded too, is now in California and is very, very rich indeed :D!

lol, Perhaphs the dogs and I could attend the same one, that WOULD be interesting. However, would I go to theirs, or would they go to mine?? :)

Do you think there may be an opening for a Arachniphobic Behaviourist I'd be willing to study and could throw in flies as well if you like. Jackie H

Now theres a thought for a career move, and I can help you with the fly supplies!! lol

And if you do worms, I'll be a customer - desensitise me, and stop the dogs eating them where I can see them do it :-)

Just remeber how considerate I was when you were here and didnt feed the Axolotyl in front of you!!

Will remember the consideration of not doing it. Will also remember the great big grin when you were threatening to do it .... :D!

ROFLOL, oh what a way you have with words!!!!! :) :) :)

Doesn't Bailey eat spiders? The Madame brood enjoy a spider almost as much as a coffee or whiskey and Teel & Mel indulge in the sport as well. Van the Man cat is proving to be a good spider eliminator too:-)