hey guys,

I don't come in here much as I don't have any dogs (wife has two cats, yuck), but a subject on another forum got me thinking about a particular event.

A friend of mine let me borrow his brown lab retreiver to do some duck hunting with and she was a fine hunting dog. Several months before I took her hunting she had had a litter of mongrels (compliments of the neighbors dog). She ended up killing all and eating a couple of the pups. It was very disturbing for the owner to say the least. I believe the owner beat the hell out of her for this but was generally good although stern with her.

She was probably 5 or 6 years old at the time and this was her first litter. She had had a lot of retreiver training early in life but was mainly a house dog (house and fenced back yard) with the chance to go in the field probably a half dozen times a year or less. She was a fatso. She had escaped the time that the breeding took place. Overall a very friendly and lazy (by choice or circumstance)dog with this one tragic event that she took part in.

Does anyone have any ideas about why this occured? Very interesting (and sad) I thought but I have no idea why it happened
Thanks