My 6y Male Poodle Killed a Rabbit
There’s been so many bunnies in our yard, eating the garden to the ground this year. There used to be one or two and my dog would chase them around, I’d laugh that he will never catch one. Now, there’s been 6 at a time sitting around when he’s not out and he actually caught one when I let him out. It escaped and went under our deck. I tried to get down there, even dug a bit just to see if it was okay and if I could help, absolutely no way to get down other than ripping apart deck.
Now I smell death. My sweet, gentle, overprotective poodle is a killer. I’m really worried and sad. Does he have the taste for blood now? What can I do to at this point to make sure he won’t kill again.
I’m so conflicted, my family bashed me for allowing him to kill a rabbit. I didn’t “allow” him. I just let him go in our backyard like I have for 5 years. The rabbits are out of control this year too. He just had better odds and I want to confess, secretly I’m proud of him. We do plan to move to a rural property in the next 8 months or so. Do we need to get him retrained? He’s never hurt anything before.