my dog is an eviiillll monster

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No, she's not, at all, she's like the best thing in the entire world that has happened to me.

However, one of the walls in my house has been really exposed because of a pipe that exploded and we've apparently had some mice. I don't know where to start with traps or poison because my dog and cat have to be thought of first and this is a very recent problem. I haven't come up with the next step.

Some background - my dog is really intensely obsessed with uhm... I think they are called moles? They dig around underground and make little dirt piles in my yard in the spring and fall. She slowly stalks them and then suddenly she's tearing them out of the ground and eating them. My dad borrows her for this purpose when he has one because she's good at it and they are difficult to catch/kill and they tear up his garden.

HOWEVER it only took her a few seconds to warm up to my friends pet rats. She lets them climb all over her and she grooms them like they're cats etc. She has on multiple occasions gotten out of the house and returned with a kitten. She tries to keep kittens. She would surely collect cats if I facilitated this. She's fiercely protective of our new house mate who is a foster cat. So other than the moles, she's very gentle and sweet... until the mice.

I haven't actually seen a mouse outside of her walking by me eating one. She's sat down beside or in front of me and chewed up a few mice. I only saw her kill one. But she's catching them and eating them. And I do think she's under the impression she's done something good. I'm pretty much impressed with her 24/7, and I didn't know even... how to react to this. I know that look when she's wanting approval so I patted her on the head the first time and then cleaned her face with a cloth. I'm completely freaked out by this, honestly. Screaming and running away seems counter intuitive.

Is it dangerous for her to be eating mice? Is it bad to let her do this if I'm possibly adopting a rat? What the hell kind of dog eats mice? Is it maybe just something lacking in her diet? Should I skip the laptop and take her to the vet instead? She went a few months ago but this wasn't going on then. Her vet said the mole thing is normal with some small breeds but... fricken mice?

It sounds like a terrier thing to me, especially with the digging for the moles. What kind of dog is she? Does she have to dig to get at the mice? Terriers were specifically bred to dig out small animals from the ground. I had one as a kid and he dug holes in all our furniture because his digging instinct was so strong.

She's half poodle, I thought she was half Scottish terrier but her original owners told me her dad might've been a Schnauser, and I looked up pictures of Schnooooodles and she looks identical to some of them. She digs an insane amount in clothing and stuff. It's pretty normal for me to walk by a pile of dirty clothes and see her head or butt sticking out.

Sounds like normal behaviour for a terrier type dog. We have a West Highland Terrier and I refer to him as a "Terriorist". The only problem I can see with him eating mice is the possibility of getting a parasitic worm infection; so you need to keep up with the worming tablets periodically.

I'm still trying to teach our Westie not to chase our chickens, but with little success. We also have a Labrador and he's more placid and has learned to totally ignore chickens. Both absolutely hate cats though and chase them on sight. The Westie occasionally tries to dig up moles too like your dog.

classic terrier behavior. the little guy in my avatar used to kill mice all the time.

I made the mistake of yelling the first time he dropped a bloody mouse in my lap.... after that he started hiding them.

NOT GOOD.

I had some cats whose mother was feral and they were prodigious hunters. We had a cat door for them so we didn't have to keep getting up and down to let them in and out. One night I kept noticing all these flies buzzing around and thought, "What is up with this?" I got up and moved the couch and there were 5-6 voles and a rat underneath.

Another time, I came home from work and had to go to the bathroom really bad. I ran in, got my pants about halfway down, happened to look over towards the bathtub where a bird was lying "dead". Then it lifted its head...

i had a dog that brought me baby rabbits at the beginning of spring...poor things didn't stand a chance.

I'm glad this is normal behavior. I was also worried about worms so I am going to look into my options in that area and what's best for her size/breed/mouse-murderer lifestyle.

Also the thought of a West Highland Terrier being referred to as "Terriorist" made me laugh, pretty hard.

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That dog even kind of looks like my dog. Mia does that, she holds it in her mouth after she catches it and usually I just see them dead, I guess it snaps their neck to be grabbed like that maybe. But once one wasn't dead and it started moving and she kind of jerked her head and snapped her teeth and it stopped moving. I wish mice weren't so cute.

I have a Westie too. This is our 2nd one and she will be 2 in May. Good luck with teaching a Westie certain things, right? They are so stubborn!

Cats are fantastic hunters.

I had a Siamese Tom-cat named Facho the Cat (the old style--big and heavy, not skinny and slinky), he was a beast.

He used to kill jack rabbits and squirrels. When we'd go off for the weekend, we would put him out and leave food and water for him on the back deck.

Several times when we came back, there would be PILES of dead animals at the front door.

My aunt owns Norfolk Terriers. One of them got a hold of a mouse and ate it.