Re: Freefall: Walking

On 2025-07-07 23:54:24 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

 Freefall: Walking
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 My wife has never offered to catch a squirrel for me.
 But my dog has tried to catch many squirrels.
 And I have eaten squirrel with fried chicken a few times.  My grandfather used to instruct us to come inside and notify him every time we saw a squirrel on the roof.  He always nailed it with his single shot .22.
 Waste not, want not.
 Lynn

There are no squirrels here in New Zealand. They also aren't even on the Government's  list of approved animals that zoos can have.
I've just finished reading a non-fiction book about various pet dogs and their jobs around the country. One dog lives at a rural hotel and the book says that one day a group of rural farm children staying there. The dog loves catching rabbits, so it went out, caught a rabbit, brought it back to one of the children. It then kept repeating that until each child had a rabbit. Being farm children, they know about rabbits being pests and hunting them, so they were apparently happy with the dog's gift / trick.