Rock

This morning I took the dog to the hippodrome for his morning walk. As we left the house and walked along the street he suddenly got excited and shot along the pavement, and stopped when he frantically started to shake something in a ball of leaves. When I caught up with him, I found he had caught and killed a rat... People underestimate poodles - even the small ones have quite a potent prey drive and will kill small animals if they can catch them. The walk at the hippodrome was more uneventful, and he didn't make a fuss when we walked past the rat's corpse on the way back.

In the afternoon we went to the beach and he had another walk - no rats involved this time. The dog had a good run and sniff - he likes the beach. Today's back blip is a rock on the beach - no dead rat!