Odd Behaviour For A Pup?

[W Sibs]

Kivi was just like that. Only he was never fast enough to bother the birds much. After a while he developed a weird relationships with one of the local magpies. He would sit very, very still and watch it move around the yard. If it flew away he got all disappointed.

Kivi still pounces and stalks, but he doesn't have much prey drive, so I don't think it necessarily means Emmy has lots of prey drive. A better indicator might be her reaction to moving objects or how much she likes to tug or rip things up. Kivi was always very gentle with his mouth, although he gets excited by moving objects. Erik was a crazy biter and tugger and he's my drivey one, but he really does not get as excited by the mousies as Kivi does, and he's no pouncer, although he stalks like a BC.

Hmmm....

Funny you say about tug and rip things up... right now, she is tearing apart a cardboard box and making growling noises as she is doing it. For tug, she is a hardcore tug-a-warer... she will NOT let the object go (i recently found out that if i blow in her nose she will automatically let the object go).. we are still working on the command 'Give'. Charlie likes tug-a-war but he doesn't have the same excitment as Emmy... then again, she puts all her energy into everything she does. We got to organise play date soon.. so you can meet her!

All my dogs do it, they manage to catch their prey every now and then

Not looking foward on finding dead birds... I have to already deal with other dead insects that Charlie accidently kills and bring to me.

Soaks was (and still is!) the same... Totally normal! Great fun to watch!

Yeah... it was really interesting to watch her this morning. I want to film her the next time she does it!

[corvus]

Funny you say about tug and rip things up... right now, she is tearing apart a cardboard box and making growling noises as she is doing it. For tug, she is a hardcore tug-a-warer... she will NOT let the object go (i recently found out that if i blow in her nose she will automatically let the object go).. we are still working on the command 'Give'. Charlie likes tug-a-war but he doesn't have the same excitment as Emmy... then again, she puts all her energy into everything she does. We got to organise play date soon.. so you can meet her!

Sounds like a little firecracker! Can't wait to meet her. Erik regularly shreds things. He gets boxes out of the recycling box in the kitchen and rips them into little pieces. I figure as long as he's ripping up something that's disposable, free, and not too hard to clean up he's not ripping up something expensive that I want. :D He's really not a hunter, at least not yet. He only seems interested in instant gratification and easy wins. Why waste time trying to get a mousey you can't see when there are tug toys you can see ready for a mock kill?