True story - about a year after I got this bitch sent over from Germany as a 9 week old pup, I was over at the neighbors having a beer. Guy says hey have you met the woodchucks? I said nope. Guy says they come right up on the lawn within ten feet of our elderly Portuguese Water Dog, no fear at all. I said yeah I dunno if they’d get the same reception in my yard…
A few days later my male German Shepherd starting barking his head off by the back door. Went to see what the commotion was.
It was then I met one of the woodchucks - she was eating it.
She’d stripped the skin off of the ribs, gobbled down the kidneys, liver and all the meat on one rack of ribs. She had blood dripping down her muzzle and was snarling at my male because she didn’t want to share. Fought me like a tiger when I tried to take it from her, too.
A week later I looked out the window and did a double-take when I saw her prancing with the second woodchuck hanging limply from her mouth.
Damn that bitch could hunt. Three time proven manstopper too. Lasted until she was 13 1/2, when her esophagus stopped working. Survived twice as long as the diagnosis said she would. Bitch hadn’t been able to keep any food down for ten days when I made the call to the vet. Tough as nails right to the end, walked a mile in the forest the day before she got the needles. In this pic she was 11, it was 93 out and we’d been playing ball for about a half hour -