Today I was at the park (the one where Corsair jumped in the river) with Corsair and he was on his 20 foot long line, as one does.

He was way ahead of me--like, all 20 feet ahead of me, and he stopped for a second to sniff something on the path, then trotted on.

As I came closer to where he'd stopped, I realised there was something there and it wasn't just a patch of smell.

Folks. It was the butt half of a dead mouse.

This fucking dog found half a dead mouse, organs hanging out, and not only didn't try to eat it, he sniffed the thing and went on so quickly and casually that I thought he had just smelled someone's stray footprint.

I took a photo to show his breeder but I won't share it here lmao

ahhh good boy

I'M VERY PROUD OF HIM, BUT ALSO IN SOME AWE.

oh my god

Jiggy would have tried to eat/play with that shit, that poor mouse

GOOD JOB THO CORSAIR

This isn't even a case of a dog who doesn't know a dead animal can be eaten. His breeder exposes all her puppies to kibble, wet food, and various forms of raw (including whole parts) before she ships them out. Corsair gets the raw turkey neck and giblets from every turkey our family eats. He KNOWS what raw meat and organs are.

I'M SO PROUD OF HIM

He didn't even look back at me for confirmation OR a reward. He just knew that was a forbidden snack and shrugged it off.

(I called him back to me to Wait while I took the photos, and he got some kibble for holding the Wait, but he once again looked at the mouse and left it and we walked on.... )

smart pupper!!! best boy!!

The nice thing about all this is that later when he wanted to give me a whole bunch of kisses.... he could do that, and I could kiss HIM all over his face. And no one got hantavirus, the end LOL

YAY

good boy!!!!

forbidden snack lol

corsair just like "ooh the most forbidden of snacks huh interesting anyway"

YEAH DSNJKGJKASD he could have totally had a crunchy little nugget full of good organs and just didn't. Thank you, sir, for respecting my training priorities

PROUD OF THE BOY

omg what a good boy

parsnip found a dead rat on the way home from the dog park this week and she did pick it up in her teeth but then she was like. hm! nah. and dropped it without me needing to do or say anything... in her case I think she just didn't know what to do with it though LMAO

for some reason this story and your description of the mouse butt made me absolutely guffaw

ormery: YEAH that's the thing, dogs aren't like. BORN knowing what a whole dead animal is for. They know it's INTERESTING but they don't know how to... use it. Some figure it out quickly but it's not really a guaranteed Thing They'll Get. (You got lucky LMAO)

I know that Corsair DOES know, though, which is what made his reaction so fucking noteworthy.

chocoballs: LMFAO I am glad to have brought you joy

Such a good boy!

wow good fuckin boy thats REMARKABLE

LMAO yeah

corsair is a legend parsnip is just stupid <3

the rat got the same treatment as the abandoned dildo a block over