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In reply to the discussion: 12-year-old black kid gets cops called on him for cutting neighbors' grass [View all]ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Our dog is a lab/rottie mix who is a very investigative sniffer arounder. She went out in the yard to poke around and came across the snake as it was trying to warm up. Unfortunately for the snake, the weather was cold and overcast that day. Our dog did not know what to make of the snake. She knew it was alive (it must have been moving ever so slightly). She would cautiously sniff it and then jump back. Approach, sniff, jump back. I finally got her to leave it alone. If I hadn't, she would probably have brought it inside to continue her investigation, at which point it would have warmed up to the point it could slither around quickly.
She did the same thing with a horny toad she found on a hike. We saw the horny toad, took a look, and kept going. Our dog could not stop her investigation. After continuing on another few hundred feet, we noticed she wasn't with us. Then we saw her come bounding along toward us with the horny toad in her mouth. Luckily for all animals involved in her investigations, she has an incredibly soft mouth (she gets from the lab half).