The Fox and the Hound and the Rabbit
Aug. 28th, 2024 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bigmogThe typical morning walk with Buster was slightly atypical today. Chasing after bad bunnies is normal operating procedure. In the previous night, a poor rabbit was killed by a car but the driver at least had the decency to move it from the road to a yard. The corpse was intact so I let Buster get a good smell up close of what he'll never catch alive. Curiously he wasn't able to detect it even 2 feet in front of him. Maybe dead rabbits aren't smelly enough.
After that it was back to tracking live rabbits. There are plenty of those to drive Buster wild. In the course of sniffing them out, Buster actually nearly lead me to a fox. I've seen foxes around here before but I'm not about to let Buster get near one. We may have ruined the fox's hunt by spooking off its prey. To try and make up for it, I went home and used a shovel to move the dead rabbit into the cover by a tree for the fox to have.
Rabbits are harmless and foxes can be real pests. Still, I'll let nature handle that while we humans and our pets live in the comfort of the indoors.
After that it was back to tracking live rabbits. There are plenty of those to drive Buster wild. In the course of sniffing them out, Buster actually nearly lead me to a fox. I've seen foxes around here before but I'm not about to let Buster get near one. We may have ruined the fox's hunt by spooking off its prey. To try and make up for it, I went home and used a shovel to move the dead rabbit into the cover by a tree for the fox to have.
Rabbits are harmless and foxes can be real pests. Still, I'll let nature handle that while we humans and our pets live in the comfort of the indoors.