Patches is Nine Years old should with doing this my husband has taken 4-6 Frogs away from her he throws them over the cement wall. Today I was out picking up the dog presents (poop) looked up and Patches was eating something. I yelled at her to drop it she took off she ate a live frogs back leg off at the hip joint area ? Here in Oklahoma I do not think the Frogs are poisonous like the ones in Florida but anyone have any ideas on how to get her to stop Frog hunting on her own ???
Thanks for any ideas.
Papbouv
Wow that's different.
My Simon in his younger days went for rabbits right in the hole,frogs might simply be a substitute to satisfy that instinct.
I was never able to get Simon to not behave this way and finally just excepted it.
There's probably not much you can do about it but be vigilant. Dachshunds are predatory animals. My first pair, Rudy & Max, used to get into a lot of trouble with toads. The toads weren't poisonous, but they do have an alkali substance on their skin which made both dogs foam up every time they grabbed one. One time with Max, he ingested some and it gave him a nasty case of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, which necessitated a trip to the emergency vet. Max bounced back and lived another 12 years after that incident until he passed at 17 1/2.
Rudy was even more predatory than Max. Basically, Rudy's world was divided up into three categories: Humans, those nice things that gave him food and pet him, Other dogs...ones that he would bark at or try to prove ascendancy over, regardless of size, and Prey. It could have been a bug, a frog, a bird, a deer or a horse. It didn't matter to Rudy.
In short, try to keep Patches away from these critters, and if he does catch one, try to wash his mouth out ASAP.