agggghhhhh Ralphie just sniffed on a dead mouse!!! What do I do?

[orchid25]

Ewwww...I am soo disgusted....we were outside doing his daily potty routine when I get home from work. And in the very back of our yard....we have bricks bordering our back bushes. Well Ralphie was on a leash and he kept sniffinf in between these two bricks...for about a minute...when I pulled him back and realized there was a dead mouse in between them!!!!!!! I am sooo grossed out. Can he get anything from sniffing one??? Should I just bathe him? Ewwwww..

[misslissa]

I would think just sniffing one he should be fine.
How old is he? has he had his shots? If so then i would not worry about it
If not then watch him over the next couple of days and tell your vet when you go back in just in case.

[Sweet Apple]

One night, I was walking Apple & she was dilly dallying all the way...About 3/4 through the 1/2 hr. or so walk, she picked up the pace, and was trotting so nicely, all the way home...I was telling her what a good girl she was, and thinking "I wish she'd always walk this nice"...However, upon entering the house, and turning on the lights, I find a dead mouse in her mouth! She had been carrying it home for about 10 minutes...She did fine, and was most upset, when I put my rubber gloves on, took it away from her, and through it over the back fence onto the easement...I think your baby will be fine...At least he didn't walk around w/it, in his mouth, for 10 minutes lol...

[capt_noonie]

Sweet Apple, OMG! I would not have liked that surprise!

Uni sniffed a dead mouse AND a baby possum within days of each other. I freaked at the mouse, then when I saw the possum I thought it was the biggest rat I ever seen! I almost fainted! Uni was ok.

[Britster]

So gross! Jackson has brought me 2 dead mice so far, he's also caught 2 birds flying in our porch, and found a mouse that was hurt in our basement and started barking at it for me to come over and see what he found. Oh and tonight he found a nest full of baby bunnies and was oh so proud of himself for finding them, when we came back inside, he started running like crazy and rolling around all excited.... yup, my little rat hunter, his instincts are pretty strong, I guess! Crazy yorkies! I think he will be totally fine.

[Jacksmom052709]

I think Ralphie will be fine - besides, like Britster said, these pups were bred to hunt mice and rats....

[zekie's mom]

I have taken flattened dead frogs or toads away from Zeke on more than on occasion. The other day he had a bone in his mouth when he came in the house. He is always on a leash and always with either my husband or myself, but he still manages to pick up items that we never see and don't know he has until later.

[luna8715]

That is so familiar, Gypsy have ate them. Like i have said before they (my dogs) are outside. I have run to try and take them out of her mouth but still, she does what is in her blood. The other two dont even follow a mouse if they sees one. But they kill lizards and little birds with their paws (or any other insect they find curious)

[2Morkies]

Uggh...I would not like my two to surprise me with any of those....
I guess they were just doing what comes naturally... I think I remember reading that Yokies were bred long ago to kill mice and rats on ships. Anyone know anything about that??

[Britster]

Originally Posted by 2Morkies

Uggh...I would not like my two to surprise me with any of those....
I guess they were just doing what comes naturally... I think I remember reading that Yokies were bred long ago to kill mice and rats on ships. Anyone know anything about that??

Yup-- well I don't know about ships for sure, but I know they were used in the coal mines and textile mills around the 1860's and 70's. They also used to have rat killing contests and Huddersfield Ben, who was the foundation sire of the breed, won many of these.

[sherile47]

At least they haven't tried to roll in the dead things. When I had Harley, one day he was just rolling and rubbing on the ground and I really didn't think anything about it...until he came inside and OMG the smell. He was rolling in something dead! Now dumb little Moses, he will try to roll in bird poop on the driveway! He is forever rolling and rubbing in the grass and so far, thank goodness, it hasn't been on anything dead, that I can see.

[MrPloppy]

Ralphie will be fine. Dogs eat anything and everything--their systems are built to do that. Raw, cooked, fresh, half rotten--they can take it.

Jackson (12 wks old at the time) got car sick on the way home from the breeder. My wife said "yuck, he threw up feathers". Because the breeder also raised chickens, I thought that maybe they were some stray chicken feathers. When we got home I hosed off the towel he got sick on, and discovered that it wasn't chicken feathers but a whole beak-to-claws dead baby bird. I can't imagine how such a little puppy could get it down his throat, but he did and was fine.

[Ute White]

Merlin hasn't found any mice yet but he is good in finding worms and slugs...yikes. I refuse kisses after that.
Yes, I read when Yorkies were first bred they had to tend to themselves and depended on mice and rats.

[orchid25]

and Ralphie is fine....he got a bath and we brushed his teeth! LOL! I was just frozen with shock when I saw it!!! Ewww...still grossed out by it yuck!
Ya'll really help calm me down. =)