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piwoodhouse	Feb 28 2007, 06:22 PM
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 3,970 Group: Full Members Member #282 Joined: August 18, 2006	I found the photos really interesting, but quite hard viewing too. I absolutely accept the control issue, but once decided, the maternal instinct in me means I still hope the animal being controlled is despatched quickly. I always thought that hounds kill foxes with a swift bite to the neck - so the spine is broken, fox dead almost instantaneously. It looked to my very untrained eye - so do shoot me down here if I'm wrong - as if Tarn was going for the squirrels underbelly, where I wouldn't necessarily expect the squirrels death to be as quick as say, a swift snap to the neck. Please don't get me wrong: a dog killed a squirrel in the wooded bit of our park and while the squirrel looked unscathed, the dog was dripping blood from a nasty head wound. I accept the cuteness of squirrels is only fur-deep and I am certainly not going to lose any sleep over the photos. But how does a dog learn which bit of the squirrel to go for?


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