2nd mouse kill...yech

[Indy's mom]

Ok so clearly Indy is trying to be cat mouser we never had. At 10 weeks he killed his first mouse in the yard (there is a field behind our house). Brought it in and was deeply disappointed when I took it away, deep boxer sigh, but fortunately he did't argue to keep his prize.

A few days ago, my now 6m. old is barking to come in the house. We hv the rule that he has to wait after the door is opened and not walk in until invited. Thank goodness he had to put the critter down to bark! There it was in all it's dead yuckiness on the step, Indy walked in, sat down (another requirement at our house so that I can clean feet, hey this is Wisconsin, snow, mud you get the picture). The whole time he's sitting he is wiggling that silly butt and craning his neck to see the furry goodness left outside.
He looked soooo disappointed when he was given a toy in the house...not the mouse. I can't wait until spring, this may be the year that the rabbits nest somewhere else. Our last boxer, Rascal chased them, but never really tried to kill them!

The funniest part is that although Indy stalks, pounces and kills his toys all the time, he has no hesitancy in giving up toys, rawhides or even his food. I wonder how he's going to feel about grass snakes?.....

 

[jaimie]

Oh Boy! That is so funny! My 2 girls were helping my kitty chase mice in our house. We were moving and things got stirred up in the basement so they had no where to go. We had traps but the cat and boxers ruled the roost and killed 5 mice in one day! Mostly babies but they had 2 adults too. I am so glad I don't live at that house anymore! We lived in the middle of a field so there were bunnies, mice, snakes (THANK GOD they never came in with one of those!)you name it we pretty much saw it! (We had a swamp that wrapped around all 3 sides of us!)

 

[Boxer101]

Those stories are too cute! We live in Fl. and we have our share of mice, but the cats take care of those critters.
Katie likes larger toys! At night we have large armodillos come rooting around the yard looking for grubs and such. If, one is out there, when I open the door the chase begins! She runs so fast I'm sure if i put her on a race track she would beat the greyhounds! .....She catches them, but luckily they have real tough shell like plates for skin,& they get away through the fence.
Next time I will place a wager on her!

 

[punkin]

mousin 'n such

My male and female boxers used to work together to chase the pigeons our of the run in horse sheds in our field. The female would run in to chase the birds off their roosts, and the male would jump up and grab them as they dipped low to clear the roof. One summer the score got to Boxers 5: Pigeons 0! Brittney, our old female used to catch mice and voles frequently at the ranch. Unfortunately, she didn't want to kill them, she just liked to drool them to death. I never knew boxers were such good hunters!

 

[tatonka]

Mice

Hello

Just to say all my boxers love mice. squirels and Horse poop - heaven forbide..... when they catch them.....because they gone now.. Now the two Adult boxers were raised in the city and had no really outside live except on a leash and walk and the odd time they took off from home.
But now they are here on our farm they just hunt all day...Gives them something to do and they teach the 9 month old pups. ... keeps them home as..... all the hunt is in post piles or wood piles

We have no cats and will not as I am sure that the one female would kill it .

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