One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was a documentary on Spanish wildlife which included a sequence where one of those things that’s half cat and half mustelid – either a civet or a genet – crept up a tree-trunk towards a supposedly terrified dormouse cowering in a hole. They kept on cutting back to this slow hunt and playing sinister music. Right at the end of the programme the civet finally stuck its head over the edge of the hole, whereupon the dormouse puffed itself up like a football and shot out of the hole making a noise like a helicopter, and the civet screamed and fell out of the tree.
A muskrat once chased a border collie and my Dad all over the yard. That’s a rodent about the size of a gopher and a medium-sized dog. When a critter acts like that, it’s rational to fear rabies, but I hear it’s normal for muskrats.
The muskrat came by a year later, I guess in the next muskrat migration season. The collie had been run over by a car and replaced with a Labrador retriever – it was still a puppy, but bigger than the collie. More important, it had a different attitude. It didn’t bark at the muskrat. We only knew about it the next morning, when the yard was covered with bits of fur, and only the tail and hindquarters left.
Story much like that of Markmoss, we have a passive 15 lb MinPin, who saw our 80 lb Pit-Lab digging for a mole earlier this year. Suddenly the little Min-Pin, who has never even noticed our many squirrels, is seized by the hunt for moles, digging and jumping at them. Not sure what he would do if he actually caught one.
happened to my beagle-mix Duchess around 1997. ground hog got tired of being chased by her every day so he turned around and snarled. she yelped and ran to the door.
C.RAPPER almost 9 years ago
Now, that’s one mean rodent..
Claire Jordan almost 9 years ago
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was a documentary on Spanish wildlife which included a sequence where one of those things that’s half cat and half mustelid – either a civet or a genet – crept up a tree-trunk towards a supposedly terrified dormouse cowering in a hole. They kept on cutting back to this slow hunt and playing sinister music. Right at the end of the programme the civet finally stuck its head over the edge of the hole, whereupon the dormouse puffed itself up like a football and shot out of the hole making a noise like a helicopter, and the civet screamed and fell out of the tree.
markmoss1 almost 9 years ago
A muskrat once chased a border collie and my Dad all over the yard. That’s a rodent about the size of a gopher and a medium-sized dog. When a critter acts like that, it’s rational to fear rabies, but I hear it’s normal for muskrats.
The muskrat came by a year later, I guess in the next muskrat migration season. The collie had been run over by a car and replaced with a Labrador retriever – it was still a puppy, but bigger than the collie. More important, it had a different attitude. It didn’t bark at the muskrat. We only knew about it the next morning, when the yard was covered with bits of fur, and only the tail and hindquarters left.
KEA almost 9 years ago
I though ROUS were only found in the Fire Swamp
jbmlaw01 almost 9 years ago
Story much like that of Markmoss, we have a passive 15 lb MinPin, who saw our 80 lb Pit-Lab digging for a mole earlier this year. Suddenly the little Min-Pin, who has never even noticed our many squirrels, is seized by the hunt for moles, digging and jumping at them. Not sure what he would do if he actually caught one.
ChessPirate almost 9 years ago
Bit of Wolverine in the family tree?
nopainogain almost 9 years ago
happened to my beagle-mix Duchess around 1997. ground hog got tired of being chased by her every day so he turned around and snarled. she yelped and ran to the door.
tedsini almost 9 years ago
Panel 4 reminds me of …
“Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.”