Re: unusual pet abilities
Back to our personal pets, I had a Black/Chocolate Lab mix. Biggest Lab I have ever seen! Like any Lab, she liked to retrieve from the water. But she wasn't interested in mere sticks. Anytime I tried, she just looked at me like "Is that the best you got?" If it wasn't a chunk of lumber, a log, or a limb, she couldn't be bothered.
I live in a small city. I kept her in a huge kennel in the back yard behind the garage. She killed 3 possums at separate times. I found them in her kennel. I had no idea they were around, being in a city. Nor did I know how they got in the kennel with her. Then I heard her barking incessantly one night and went out to see what the ruckus was all about. There were two young coons in the Lilacs bordering her kennel. She chased them high in the branches with her barking, then bounced on the fencing which jiggled the branches. That's how she got those possums. I brought her in the house so the cute little critters would escape. Probably a mistake.