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So, I still wondered about my dog Mel Mel, this time because she just flat out surprised me by her unexpected... err... fetch?
Now, this happened just last Saturday afternoon, as I lounging around in front of my house, primarily browsing with laptop while Mel Mel sit nearby.
I just teached her to play fetch kind of a week ago, with tree branches used as sticks, and as far as it goes, she played it rather well, even if she sometimes returned with wrong things if I threw the stick too far, such as random twigs that obviously not what I thrown, some scrunched up garbage, and such, but I used to think that was because she's just a puppy and think that as joke.
Alright, but last Saturday, I just want to do usual round of social media and games in peace, but Mel Mel grew restless and start to jump around and almost onto my laptop while I were chatting in facebook, so I put my laptop down, picked a random branch that lying on the nearby grass, and threw it into some bushes at the corner of my yard while order her to fetch that.
And as I threw it, there's some bird flying away from there and Mel Mel running full speed toward the bushes. I didn't really paid any attention because my attention is back to the laptop, just thinking that since the gate is locked and Mel Mel cannot slip away, or jump over, this should be the usual thing.
She did take somewhat longer to return to my side, but what I looked at made my jaw dropped with disbelief, as Mel Mel actually end up carrying a chirping, moving, and obviously living bird in her jaw, and she proceeded to showing it proudly in front of me.
Okay, I take a look at that bird and found that bird is trying to squirm away from Mel Mel, and it actually succeeded for releasing itself out of Mel Mel's jaw, but it didn't fly, just awkwardly hop around since one of it's wings are obviously broken. I take the bird and look at it closer, and see that it's wing are indeed badly broken and torn by Mel-Mel's bite.
Thinking that the bird looks healthy otherwise, and Mel Mel looking at me pleadingly with her puppy dog eyes, I decides to just return that bird back to Mel Mel and she proceeded to happily chew upon that bird, literally ripping it's feathers and used it as a living chew toy until its death, in which Mel Mel already ripped its torso and eat the innards inside while leaving half eaten carcass (which goes into garbage can and the content emptied later in the afternoon). I didn't even get angry with her, just puzzled and confused.
Now, now, Mel Mel do stays healthy until now and there's physically no harm done, I initially didn't think that much, but then one of my friends told me that I just nurturing aggression and prey drive in my dog, and warned me that it could be ultimately dangerous to another pets.
Could anyone gave me some enlightenment on what happened there and the possible effects for the future, so at least I could have informed opinions over this?
NB :, that bird is a wild one, the usual things around my house...
Now, this happened just last Saturday afternoon, as I lounging around in front of my house, primarily browsing with laptop while Mel Mel sit nearby.
I just teached her to play fetch kind of a week ago, with tree branches used as sticks, and as far as it goes, she played it rather well, even if she sometimes returned with wrong things if I threw the stick too far, such as random twigs that obviously not what I thrown, some scrunched up garbage, and such, but I used to think that was because she's just a puppy and think that as joke.
Alright, but last Saturday, I just want to do usual round of social media and games in peace, but Mel Mel grew restless and start to jump around and almost onto my laptop while I were chatting in facebook, so I put my laptop down, picked a random branch that lying on the nearby grass, and threw it into some bushes at the corner of my yard while order her to fetch that.
And as I threw it, there's some bird flying away from there and Mel Mel running full speed toward the bushes. I didn't really paid any attention because my attention is back to the laptop, just thinking that since the gate is locked and Mel Mel cannot slip away, or jump over, this should be the usual thing.
She did take somewhat longer to return to my side, but what I looked at made my jaw dropped with disbelief, as Mel Mel actually end up carrying a chirping, moving, and obviously living bird in her jaw, and she proceeded to showing it proudly in front of me.

Okay, I take a look at that bird and found that bird is trying to squirm away from Mel Mel, and it actually succeeded for releasing itself out of Mel Mel's jaw, but it didn't fly, just awkwardly hop around since one of it's wings are obviously broken. I take the bird and look at it closer, and see that it's wing are indeed badly broken and torn by Mel-Mel's bite.
Thinking that the bird looks healthy otherwise, and Mel Mel looking at me pleadingly with her puppy dog eyes, I decides to just return that bird back to Mel Mel and she proceeded to happily chew upon that bird, literally ripping it's feathers and used it as a living chew toy until its death, in which Mel Mel already ripped its torso and eat the innards inside while leaving half eaten carcass (which goes into garbage can and the content emptied later in the afternoon). I didn't even get angry with her, just puzzled and confused.
Now, now, Mel Mel do stays healthy until now and there's physically no harm done, I initially didn't think that much, but then one of my friends told me that I just nurturing aggression and prey drive in my dog, and warned me that it could be ultimately dangerous to another pets.
Could anyone gave me some enlightenment on what happened there and the possible effects for the future, so at least I could have informed opinions over this?
NB :, that bird is a wild one, the usual things around my house...