A cold blooded killer

Moses says hello to a cat

For those of you who’ve met Moses know he is all talk. His ferocious bark combined with his size makes him look intimidating to any potential intruders, but once you offer him love he melts like butter.

So you can imagine my surprise when he tried to kill something yesterday.

We were walking on the trail by our home, when he began sniffing furiously around in the snow. A vole suddenly popped out of the snow and began scurrying across the winter landscape. Usually when a similar circumstance has arose, Moses tilts his head with curiosity and passively follows the unidentified critter around. Whether it was ants, bees, squirrels or chipmunks, he just wanted to say hello and figure out what he was encountering.

I thought this would play out the same way as always, but this time he wanted something more.

All of the sudden he pounced after the vole and actually caught it! Moses is a lot of things, but coordination is not traditionally associated with him. I heard the vole squeal and I knew its life was probably close to over within a matter of seconds. Miraculously when I commanded Moses to drop the rodent, he did.

But then Aspen finished the job.