A muskrat once chased a border collie and my Dad all over the yard. That’s a rodent about the size of a gopher and a medium-sized dog. When a critter acts like that, it’s rational to fear rabies, but I hear it’s normal for muskrats.
The muskrat came by a year later, I guess in the next muskrat migration season. The collie had been run over by a car and replaced with a Labrador retriever – it was still a puppy, but bigger than the collie. More important, it had a different attitude. It didn’t bark at the muskrat. We only knew about it the next morning, when the yard was covered with bits of fur, and only the tail and hindquarters left.
A muskrat once chased a border collie and my Dad all over the yard. That’s a rodent about the size of a gopher and a medium-sized dog. When a critter acts like that, it’s rational to fear rabies, but I hear it’s normal for muskrats.
The muskrat came by a year later, I guess in the next muskrat migration season. The collie had been run over by a car and replaced with a Labrador retriever – it was still a puppy, but bigger than the collie. More important, it had a different attitude. It didn’t bark at the muskrat. We only knew about it the next morning, when the yard was covered with bits of fur, and only the tail and hindquarters left.