Hunter- Killer..Well, one out of two isn`t bad.

Have just been walking the dogs up the field track adjacent to the Bois Cambert. At this time of year, this is a bare earth field, with a thick fringe of grass along the edge of the track. Now Jilly and Laika love to try to dig out (and eat) the little field mice or voles that have their burrows in the grass. However, the little beasts are very cunning and mostly seem to avoid the combined hunting skills of the two dogs with an almost contemptuous ease!
  This afternoon was a typical train of events. Jilly located a burrow, which she could smell contained a mouse. First shoving her nose down it to check direction, she started to dig furiously. Laika, seeing that the hunt was on, joined in, digging a couple of feet away to try to cut off the prey`s retreat. The mouse, choosing its moment, emerged unseen from between Jilly`s hind feet and ran out into the field. Quickly checking that both dogs had their noses underground, it ran with twinkling feet around the two dogs at a distance of four or five feet, in a curve to re-join the verge. Locating a new burrow, it disappeared into its refuge. Jilly had dug so enthusistically that she had struck the water table and was blowing bubbles. Did she think the mouse was aquatic? Eventually, I had to blow the `gone away` on the hunt and urge them back towards the car,  Jilly with mud to the eye-brows. She should be ashamed of herself, a great dog like that out-thought by a tiny mouse!
   Bye for now, going to hose Jilly down with the spray nozzle before she can come in!