Some will, some won't. Ours, back in the 1960's was a serious hunter but wouldn't waste time on anything smaller than a rabbit, wouldn't even look at squirrels sideways. When she decided it was time to go hunting, she would get out of her collar somehow, she was chained to a run when let outside in the back yard, no fence would hold her when she wanted to go hunting. , She would dig under the metal fence buried 6+ inches in less than a minute to go hunt the woods. Until she passed when I was 9, I can remember probably a dozen trips to the vet for stitches, and 5 or 6 badgers she succesfully brought home.
That's interesting. I doubt my (mini) daschund would attempt to go after a badger, but we don't have any around here so I doubt I'll find out. We have raccoons though. Curious to see what he does when face to face with a raccoon.
I do know he goes after chickens, rabbits, rats and likely mice. I've almost convinced him to not go after my chickens. Most days he's quite good. Rabbits and rats are automatic. I suspect he goes after mice but he's never brought me a corpse so I can't be sure.
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