A DOG KILLED BY A MOUSE.
A Gentleman writing to this journal relates the following curious occurence: I was alone with my laborers in a field where potatoes had been harvested. My watch dog was along with me. I saw him seize a mouse, swallow it and then lie. down at my feet. I went home to dinner, and while seated at the table was asked what was the matter with the dog. He was turniing round and moaning, and something was hanging from his side. I took him up in my arms and found it was a mouse which had just been killed, At first I thought it had merely stuck in the long hair, but on examing closer I saw that only one-half of the mouse protruded from the dogs body. When the aperture was cleared it was found to be an inch in depth. The dog had no front teeth, had '• swallowed the mouse, and the little animal had at once began to gnaw its way out. It 1 was at first stopped by one of the ribs, • and had actnally burrowed out between ' the skin and rib. The dog killed the mouse ' when.it put its head out, by munching it 1 with its jaws. . The dog died the next > day.—Berlin paper. ■' i • I
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 149, 2 May 1879, Page 2
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217A DOG KILLED BY A MOUSE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 149, 2 May 1879, Page 2
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