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Our dog Cricket has his favourite hunting ground on a huge dirt mound out by the vege garden. It's left over from when we were building the house. The weeds have grown up all over it and it provides quite a good sort of wilderness area for dogs. Cricket spends a lot of his time digging and sniffing out something in the dirt pile. We're not sure what it is exactly. It will either be rabbits or mice. We suspect mice. He's really too slow to catch rabbits, though he tries hard, but he has been known to hunt out and chew mice .... while they're still wriggling.  Just as good as a cat, really!

I took these pictures of him in the dirt mound over the weekend. He's dug this huge hole - he almost fits his entire body into it. He barks at Poppy (the Jack Russel terrier) whenever she snoops around hoping to get a piece of the action. He's very territorial with his 'dig', and he comes up filthy dirty and looking like a chocolate Lab instead of a black Lab. He makes us laugh. He's really great fun to have around.