Well, last night was a really bad night for me. My Cavalier KC Spaniel wanted to go into the veg section in my garden. I opened the gate to let her in, as I could keep an eye on her and stop her trampling everything.
Suddenly she pounced. I ran to see what she was up to. There was a vole sticking out of her mouth. It was still alive and it was gasping for breath and waving its front paws(?) wildly. I couldnt get her to drop it so I called my son. Between us we managed to get it out of her mouth and put her inside the house.
The vole was breathing really quickly, but looked unharmed. We watched to see how it would be. After a few minutes, it seemed to recover. When it tried to walk away, we could see that its back leg was badly broken and it kept on falling over.
I feel terrible about it, but I couldnt finish it off, so I called my sister, who is a vetinary nurse. She came around immediately, and killed it for me.
It was a really sad evening. I keep seeing the poor vole trying to get out of the dogs mouth. Gypsy was wondering what she had done wrong, as we wouldnt let her play with her 'treasure' she had found.
I thought only cats caught mice ??? I will have to keep a closer eye on her in future. Shame she wasnt so good at killing slugs ::)
cj :)
