My big dog is a snake killer! We were hiking in the woods and came up on a rattler. The kids were alarmed, but then the dog pushed past them. She grabbed the snake with her jaws and began to sling it back and forth rapidly. The snake just exploded into pieces all of the kids. They thought is was the coolest thing.
It kinda made up for the previous day when she scooped up a baby cottontail rabbit they had found and took off. They cried for 30 minutes.
Your dog is a true hunter. Good for you and your family. Poor rabbit, but heck, killing the snake made up for it.
My first job after finishing college was managing a cow calf operation in Central Texas. The ranch had 10 or 11 semi-feral cats which would do the same thing. It was like watching ballet seeing the way those felines would gang up upon, then taunt and distract the snake until one could get a kill shot.
The only time I ever saw cats earn their keep.
"My big dog is a snake killer! We were hiking in the woods and came up on a rattler. The kids were alarmed, but then the dog pushed past them. She grabbed the snake with her jaws and began to sling it back and forth rapidly. The snake just exploded into pieces all of the kids. They thought is was the coolest thing."
I had two mutts who were a team. The little one would dance in front of the Copperhead to get his attention while the big one would sneak up behind him, grab him behind the head and tear him to pieces. Then they switched to skunks.