Did Daisy kill a wabbit? I report, you decide

[Elidor]

My girlfriend still insists her dog is innocent, but here is the story so far:

Last night about 11pm she took Daisy out to "do business." Daisy, a golden-collie mix, was not on a leash, and it was Prime Wabbit Time; the time when they hop around in the dark shadows of the yard. Daisy spotted a wabbit just five feet away in the darkness. My girlfriend yelled, "No!" and Daisy took off after the wabbit and couldn't be caught. We've been through this scenario about three times a week for a year.

Daisy comes home about 1am and knows she is in trouble. We let her in and go to sleep.

But then, this morning, I'm still half-asleep as I step out for some air, and there's this huge dead rabbit on the lawn. It looks very large and healthy. There are no visible wounds anywhere, nor any blood. No sign of illness. Rigor mortis was setting in at 10am, so it's apparent Mr. Cottontail died in the midnight.

Girlfriend says "Daisy did not kill that wabbit. We don't know how it got there! You didn't see her with it. My baby would never do that!" Later, she posited that perhaps our Guatemalan neighbors had thrown it there for Daisy to enjoy. (I'm not familiar with this custom...run that by me again?)

Here are the facts as I see them:

Daisy took off after a rabbit, then turned up at the same time the rabbit was dying and just 20 feet from where it was found. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out.

As Exhibit A, I submit the time Daisy killed a squirrel by shaking it in her jaws until its neck was broken. I believe she did the same to the hapless wabbit, then dragged it home.

I can place Daisy at the scene. I can show that she had both motive and opportunity. She has killed before. And we can reasonably infer that Daisy was the last "person" seen lurking in the vicinity where the body was later found. I submit to you, the jury: it was Daisy, in the Yard, with her own Teeth.

Okay, I admit to bias:
The mutt is guilty.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. I take a dim view of killing rabbits

Daisy should get a fair trial, but if found guilty, she should be punished severely.

/s/

[Elidor]

2. I would respectfully submit that you

Would quickly be disqualified for jury duty due to obvious bias. :D

[Jack Rabbit]

3. I didn't say I wanted to be on the jury

Besides, what makes you think I'd be biased against a vile, mangy beast that kills my sweet, innocent and extremely cute fellow lepines?

[Mikimouse]

4. Now, now...let's not get ...

a hare across our asses!:evilgrin:

[Spinzonner]

5. I'm waiting for the DNA tests to come back

[baldguy]

6. Dogs are carnivores.

They have evolved all the physical tools necessary to hunt, stalk, run down and kill their food.

Plus, chasing little furry things is great fun!

[jdonaldball]

7. Good Doggy!

Rabbits are not nice cuddly creatures. They're oversized mice with big ears. They exist to be eaten.
Just let the rabbits overpopulate and you'll find out how much tolerance the radical Vegetarians have left for them.... :-) "Who ate all my Organic Okra??!! And who left rabbit shit all over my lawn?" Bugs Bunny, that's who.
Good Doggy!

[bloodyjack]

8. radical vegetarians? organic carrots? LOLOLOLOLOL

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??

[jdonaldball]

9. I don't know. I don't speak Veg

I only speak Pidgin-Vegetarian. I don't know what the hell they're saying half the time.
I just know rabbits deserve to be eaten. :-)

[jdonaldball]

10. Oh my God, just realized

I was born in the Year of the Rabbit.
Oh hell.
Nice Doggy, nice Doggy....