Dalmatian Savages Rabbit on Walk

[Jaybay]

The weather is finally improving here in southeast Texas, so I took the dogs out for a spin around the hood yesterday afternoon.  Doc, our cartoon-ish dalmatian, froze at the sight of a rabbit under a tree in a neighbor's yard.  Next thing you know, I'm flying across the sidewalk into the yard and Doc is savaging... a yard ornament stanked to the ground.

I have to say it was very realistic, but the look on Doc's face was priceless when he wrapped his choppers around a plastic bunny that remained staked to the ground.  He jumped three feet in the air and backwards in one leap, nearly knocking me over.  I was almost rolling in the grass I was laughing so hard.  My other dog Maggie just sat there and looked at us like we were completely nuts.  The Fed Ex guy making a delivery next door saw the whole thing.  I suspect it made his day.  LOL!

[cheeky37]

I have a dalmatian and they are very comicle, mine came trotting up the garden with a hedgehog in her mouth all proud trying to bury it in my pile of clean washing, i must stress the hedgehog was fine hence it lost a few spikes in my dogs nose, oh and it left a good few fleas on my dogs spotty coat :(.

[Jaybay]

Totally understand the Irish lingo, and you're right: "eejit" is a perfect word in these cases!  :-D

Are we the only two people with eejit dog stories on this forum?  I wish more people would find this thread.  LOL!

[ginger899]

It just goes to show dogs can be eejits! (thank goodness they are from time to time. It keeps us laughing!)
(eejits is kind of Irish for crazy dumb s.o.b's.)

My other dog Toby used to go crazy for this bouncy false dog in a kiddie's play park. It was mounted on a huge spring and when he "attacked" it he did so in such a funny way, made the weirdest noises, and the thing used to bounce all over the place, forward and back. I thought if this was allowed to continue, one of us would die of a seizure. I really feared for my own health as could hardly breathe for laughing. I used to end up rolling around on the grass because my legs wouldn't hold me up anymore.

[Jaybay]

Many thanks for the return laughs!  That walk was one brief shining moment away from my mom.  LOL!

Don't I WISH I'd caught that on film!  Poor Doc looked so wounded when he realized he'd been hoaxed.  Glad to know he's not the only dog to be so easily baited.  :-D

[ginger899]

Hilarious!
I don't suppose you got to film this? Probably not....but Doc could make a fortune on Youtube!!
Misty got kidded by a life size ceramic King Charles Spaniel in an antique emporium the other day! I am SO GLAD she's pretty gentle as far as greetings go....she wagged her tail, made a bee-line, and sniffed his butt.
Otherwise that could have cost me dearly. :-/