re: What did one of your pets do to make you laugh?

Some friends and I were hunting in the marsh with my older dog probably 7 years ago. We shot a bird right after shooting time and it fell probably 10 yards from our hide across this little ditch. I sent the dog and she couldn't come up with the bird. She was in her prime and this was totally abnormal for her - she would maybe lose 1-2 birds a year. It was early and we couldn't see really well, so we figured the bird dove and died under water in the grass, and decided to go look for it after we were one short of our limit.

We got to the end of the hunt and the three of us paddled across the ditch with the dog to find the bird. She hunts a little bit and starts going absolutely batshit crazy and digging into the mud right by the bank. We are 100% certain at this point that she's on the bird and so we start trying to help her dig into the grass, pulling grass out of the way, egging her on, good dog, hunt it up, etc. After about 2-3 minutes of this exercise, she jams her face into the mud up to her collar and comes out with a fully alive and squeaking harvest mouse. She was prouder of that mouse than I think I've ever seen her with any bird. We still tell that story often and will long after she's gone.


My young pup is only 8 months old, but I walked outside on the back porch a few days ago and she was blowing bubbles in her water bowl and then attacking them. I got a kick out of that. She is also an absolute menace to spiders and mosquito hawks and will jump into the air with all fours off of the ground to try to catch mosquito hawks with her mouth.