This past Sunday morning while I was getting dressed, Jensen ran into the bathroom and yelled, "Mom, Bella is fighting with a rat!" I said, "No, it must be something else" but went to look out the window anyway. That tail is unmistakable. It was definitely a rat. And Bella had it cornered in the shrubbery. After a few minutes of her going after the rat, she grabbed it and actually flung it into our pool! The rat was still alive at this point and furiously paddling around my pool. Bleeding into it by the way. I didn't know what to do so called Jim who wasn't home at the time. He, wisely, told me to "call someone." By the time I got off the phone with him, the rat had clearly expired. Still bleeding into my pool though. I called my lovely neighbor, Richard, who I knew had experience fishing rats out of pools (it's actually a pretty common occurance in our little corner of paradise). He came down the street with his pool skimmer and fished it out for me, bagged it up, and hauled it to the dumpster. Thanks, Richard!
Rat Terrier 1
Rat 0
8 comments:
So you have rat blood in your swimming pool. That's great...
*Shudder*
That reminds me of when Shiloh was a puppy and he escaped while I was taking him for a walk. He grabbed a dead squirrel from the middle of the road and ran off with it.
Okay... maybe that's not as noble or protective, but it's still gross.
So obviously, you have a rat terrier!!
Jean
So obviously, you have a rat terrier!!
Jean
grooooossss. you don't post for a month and this is the story we get?!?!?!
at least the picture is cute.
just charming...
So you have time to change the photo on your header (which is cute by the way), but you don't have time to update? Hmm... ;)
FOR the love of God...it's time to update. What--are you supporting the writer's strike too? ;-)
Cindi
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