Update to the "doggies-adventure" post

I left the house to go pick up dinner when our neighbor, Mary, flagged me down.

It turns out - to my horror and immense amusement - the doggies, yes, our two little screwballs called Italian Greyhounds, actually CAUGHT that squirrel this morning.

My neighbor didn't witness it; her daughter did, so I'll have to get the gory details from her. But from what Mary knows, they cornered the squirrel and once it was dead, they paraded around the yard with it in their mouths. Their carrying it around explains why the squirrel's fur was matted. Earlier today I'd thought that maybe the squirrel had been dead since last night, and the dew matted its fur. Yeah, no, not the case. The matted fur was due to the doggies' slobber. Apparently, they were SUPER proud of themselves.

They did this between 9 and 10 this morning so by the time I got to it, rigor mortis had set in. It also explains why they were SO quiet and not bugging us to let them in for so long this morning as well.... they were busy patroling and, apparently, succeeding and then having a victory parade, too.

We've known that it would just be a matter of time before they caught something. What we didn't know is A) what they would do if they did catch something and B) if they killed it, what would they do then?

To answer A: apparently, they will kill it. We think that in this case, because the squirrel looked pretty intact, they caught it and shook it really hard.

To answer B: apparently, they will parade around the yard with it, victory lap style, and then bring it to us as a present! Look Mommy and Daddy! Look at what we did!!

Well, at least the questions are now answered...